-
German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. Hitler had been planning his attack since March - ever since German troops occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia.
-
-
Between Britain, France and Germany. The Phoney War refers to what happened in Western Europe. To assume that nothing was going on in Europe would be wrong as Poland was in the process of being occupied with all that brought for the Polish people. However, in Western Europe very little of military importance did take place.
-
-
Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. World War II had begun.
-
Soviet forces under terms of a secret agreement with Germany marched into Poland from the East. They took control of part of it.
-
The problem for the British was that the route south from Narvik led through Norwegian territorial waters, in an area known as the Indreled, or Inner Leads. While Norway remained neutral, there was very little the British could do to stop this trade without violating that neutrality
-
When Hitler struck west, the French public was ill-prepared for the swiftness of the German advance, the dispatch with which the Maginot Line crumpled and the thrust across the Belgian border, where the defenses proved virtually nonexistent.
-
Mussolini joined forces with German dictator Adolf Hitler and began to attack Jewish people within the country just as Germany was doing.
-
Hitler decided to bomb military sites
-
Launched by Hitler in violation of the existing non-aggression treaty with Stalin, it was designed to provide the Reich with 'living space in the East'. The German dictator had advocated the conquest of the USSR.
-
Japagn went to war against USA. Japan was conquering much of eastern Asia and islands of the Pacifil
-
This was the second time he invaded.
-
They wanted the control of all the citiy
-
-
Hitler made a peace offer to both Western Powers. Even before they had had time to respond, he formulated a new military policy in case their reply was negative. It was all over. Poland had ceased to exist as a country.
-
The German army and Stalin grad surrended
-
They were driven out of North Africa
-
Italy lost its war and Mussolini's power collapsed. Restored as Hitler's puppet in northern Italy, he drove Italy deeper into invasion, occupation, and civil war.
-
-
The Germans decided that they would not storm the city. Hitler had stated to his generals that once Leningrad had been surrounded and bombarded from the air and by artillery on the ground, the resolve of the city to continue the fight would disappear. German bombers also dropped propaganda leaflets on the city - claiming that the population would starve to death if t. However the German forces had to abandon their offensive on Leningrad as well.
-
-
This battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, the British Expeditionary Force and many French soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
In the second operation, German forces outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France. Italy declared war on France -
Was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States.
-
German power in Europe collapsed
-
-
-
Two atomic bombs were dropped in Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation caused by these bombs forced Japanese goverment to surrender. That was the end.
