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Invasion of Poland / Start of WWII
The Germany forces went into germany and began attacking them by ground. Which broke the pact that Germany and the Soviets had prior which stated that Poland would be left alone. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941. -
Seige of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
The attack on pearl harbor was a horrible and tragic day for many Americans. The Japanese surprised us by attacking our naval base just before 8am on Dec. 7 1941. Hundreds upon hundreds of japanese planes flew in and blew up our ships before we even knew what was going on. There where not one but two waves of japanese flyers coming in, they thought this atttack would break us apart but instead in brought us together. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
British commander Bernard Law Montgomery launched an infantry attack at El Alamein on Oct. 23, 1942. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943. -
Battle of Anzio
The Battle of Anzio was an important battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that began on January 22, 1944, with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle against the German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. -
D-Day @ Normandy
This battle would be going down as the largest seaborn invasion in history. The allied invasion of normandy was an incredible battle, the weather was bad, things weren't going as planned. The U.S was trying to eradicate German forces from Normandy to help achieve victory. -
Batttle of the Buldge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Hitlers Death / Suicide
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
VE - Day
Victory in Europe is the mark of the allied forces pushing the rest of German forces back to Berlin (their capitlal) to make them surreneder. We pushed them back, hitler commited suicide, about a week later they gave up and surrendered, this act is well none as VE day. -
Hiroshima
On August 6 the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima. -
Nagasaki
August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. -
VJ - Day / End of WWII
This day goes down in history as the defeat of Japan and the end of the war in Europe. American forces finally defeat Japan in the pacific on September 2nd, 1945.
