World War II

By Layne.tyler

  • Kristallnacht

    Was a series of coordinated attacks against jews throughout nazi Germany and something significant of this would be that many people died

  • German invades Poland

    was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe the significance of this is that

  • Battle of Britain

    Was an air battle for England and something significant
    of this battle is not making Britain surrender.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor was a horbor that held most of the United States aircraft carriers and boats and the significance of this was that it started world war 2

  • Battle of Midway

    important naval battle of the pacific and the significance of this is that it gave the Americans a good offensive tactic.

  • Stalingrad

    A major battle of WWII in which nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet union for control of the city stalingrad

  • D-Day

    160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but mo

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf. and formerly known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

  • Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February–26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S. invasion, charged with the mission of capturing the three airfields on Iwo Jima,resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date and thosuands of people died.