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Invasion of Poland
The attack comes without any warning or declaration of war.
Britain and France have mobilised their forces and are preparing to wage war on Germany for the second time this century.
Just before dawn today, German tanks, infantry and cavalry penetrated Polish territory on several fronts with five armies, a total of 1.5 million troops. -
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WW2
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The Battle of Britain
The battle began in mid-July and, initially, the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English Channel and attacking coastal towns and defences. From 12 August, Goering shifted his focus to the destruction of the RAF, attacking airfields and radar bases. Convinced that Fighter Command was now close to defeat, he also tried to force air battles between fighter planes to definitively break British strength. -
The battlr of the Atlantic
The German submarine force (U-boats) severely damaged our ability to survive the war - hence Churchill’s quote above when he feared we would be starved out of the war. A great deal of our raw materials came from America and therefore had to cross the Atlantic. -
Dunkirk
the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation (codenamed Operation Dynamo) was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, when British, French and Canadian troops were cut off by the German army. in a speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill called it the greatest military defeat for many centuries, warning that "the whole root, the core, and brain of the British Army" was stranded in Dunkirk. he hailed their subsequent rescue as a " -
The war in Africa
Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, announced that Italy were going to enter the war. Mussolini was worried by the apparent ease with which Germany was gaining ground in Europe, aarguments would take place when Germany achieved a final victory. It would only take the death of a thousand or so Italian soldiers, he believed, to ensure a seat at the conference table after the war. -
Operation Barbarossa
This was the invasion of Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and her allies. The plan envisioned a quick conquest of the Soviet Union based upon their performance against Finland in late 39 early 40. The German forces were split into three groups, Army Groups - North, Center and South -
Pearl Harbour
At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on a U.S. military base. On the night before the attack, the Japanese moved a fleet of 33 ships to within 200 miles the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the location of Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
The whole operation was codenamed Overlord. It happened on 6 June 1944 after five years of war with Germany.
A massive military force set out from England towards France. It was going to overthrow Nazi Germany and its leader Adolf Hitler. The Nazis had taken over nearly the whole of Europe.
The allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy and started to break through the German army's defences. They began an attack that lasted for eleven months and took them all the way to the German capita -
The Dropping of the atomic Bomb!!
American forces dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - it was the second such attack on Japan in three days.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 bomber plane.it is believed to have completely destroyed the city, which is situated on the western side of the Japanese island of Kyushu.