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World War 2 Begins
Germany invaded Poland on this date in history. German aircraft bombed Polish citys and airfeilds and a bombardment of a Polish fort outside Danzing. -
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World war 2
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Britain/ France declare war on Germany
Two days after the blitzlrieg was perfprmed on Poland Brittian and France uphold their promise to Poland and declared war on Germany. -
Soviet Army Invades Poland
When the Soviet Union decides to invade Poland, Germany had already started to invade, and when their armies met the Germans gave their Polish prisoners to the USSR for captivity. The Soviets ended up with 3/5ths of Poland and about 3 million of its people. -
Operation Weserübung
Germany invaded Denmark and Norway as a manouvre against a Franco-British occupation of Norway. -
Alantic port of Brest.
This was one of the fiercest battles fought on the Western Front. The Allies needed to capture port facilities to make she they had all the supplies they needed. -
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Battle of Brittian
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Tripartite pact
This was a pact written in Berlin. One of the main people that signed the pact was Adolf Hitler. the agreement was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
'Lend-Lease' Act
This was where the United States provided the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and the UK with oil, food, and materials between 1941 and the end of World War 2. -
Battle Of Greece
The Germans had invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. -
Barborossa
Hitler wants to take over the USSR. About 4 million soldiers of the Axis Powers invaded the Sovet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise by the Japanese Navy. It was an attack on the U.S. in Hawaii. -
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Wasaw uprising
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Hitler killed himself
little after 3.30 pm, they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. Hitler then shot himself through the head. The man responsible for untold suffering, who had almost single-handedly brought the world to the very brink of destruction, was dead. -
U.S. Drops "Little Boy" On Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
End of WW2
The U.S. ha dfinally dropped atomic bombs of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus ending World War 2. -
U.S. Drops "Fat Man" On Nagasaki
It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
