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Invaison of Poland
The German Blitzkrieg is the war that started world war one. It was non as the “lighting war.” Polish air force quickly became outnumbered against the Germany Luftwaffe. On Thursday August 31st, 1939, Adolph Hitler provides the final orders for the invasion of Poland. September the 18th, Polish city of Vilnius falls to soviet army. The polish government flees into Romania. On the 19th of September Germany and soviet army elements finally meet one another in Poland at Brest-litovsk. -
Allied bombing of Hamburg
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II (September 1939 – April 1945) included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids. As a large port and industrial center, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Hamburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war. Close to Hamburg, in Geesthacht was also the site of the world's oldest dynamite factory, constructed by Alfred Nobel. The attack during the last week of July, 1943, Operation Gomorrah, created -
Battle Midway
The Battle Midway was to bring the American carries out of Pearl Harbor and assail them in fail death. Japanese were also hopeful of an American negotiation to end the war in the pacific. They launched a contingent of 151 aircraft. They had lost 35 out of 41 of their aircrafts. -
Germany invasion of Poland
Germanys invasion of Poland was because of Hitler signing the pack to assure Poland wouldn’t team up with France it’s important that they wouldn’t it’s important because if Poland an Frances army’s did team up Germany would have no chance in the war. Germany also just wanted more land. On Monday September 18th, the polish city of Vilnius falls to the Soviet army. Germany also had a sneaky attack on Poland. It was in 1939. -
Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China started because Japan needed more money. It started in 1931 and ended in 1937. On September 27, 1940 Japan signed the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy. They then entered the military alliance known as the “Axis”. It n a way it started the war world two. It got America into the wars. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, or Case Barbarossa, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Beginning on 22 June 1941, over 4 million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. In addition to troops, Barbarossa involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. The ambitious operation, driven by Adolf Hitler's persistent desire to conquer the Soviet territories, marked the beginning -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.Aircraft and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy began an attack on the U.S naval base. Through earlier code breaking activity, the Americans had determined that an attack was likely to occur. However, while the Americans failed to discover Japan's target location, it was believed that the Philippines was the most likely target. Under the command of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, the attack was devastating in loss of life and damage to the U.S. fleet. At 06: -
Operation Thunderclap
In August 1944 plans were drawn for an operation code named Thunderclap but it was shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. But on consideration it was decided that it was unlikely to work, so it was shelved. -
VE Day
VE Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President o -
The atomic bombings
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. -
Pacific War
In 1945, the Pacific War between the Empire of Japan and the Allies of World War II had entered its fourth year. World War II was not winding down. Instead, the fighting was being prosecuted with ever-increasing fury. Of the 1.25 million battle casualties incurred by the United States in World War II, including both soldiers killed in action and wounded in action, nearly one million occurred in the twelve month period from June 1944 to June 1945. December 1944 saw American battle casualties hit -
Victory over Japan Day
Victory over Japan Day is and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.