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Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2
France and England declared war against Germany on Sept. 3, but neither country was prepared to fight and would not deploy a significant number of military forces until the next year, leaving Poland alone in its defense.Any hopes of repelling the invasion were dashed on Sept. 17, when the Soviet Red Army invaded from east. By the end of September, Germany and the Soviet Union had control of the country. -
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Germany takes control much of Westen Europe
Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France. -
Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain.
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. -
Germany, Italy, and Japan create Axis Alliance
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance. The pact shows that if any of the countries are attacked by a country not already involved in the war the other countries will give mutual assistance. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies. The US were trying to stay out of the war. But after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the US got agravated then joined the allied powers because the japanese were on the axis powers. -
US navy beats Japan navy in the Battle of Midway
The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Italy surrenders to allies
Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.On September 8, Hitler launched Operation Axis, the occupation of Italy. As German troops entered Rome, General Badoglio and the royal family fled Rome for southeastern Italy to set up a new government. Italian troops began surrendering to their former German allies; where they resisted, as had happened earlier in Greece, they were slaughtered (1,646 Italian soldiers) -
Germany surrenders to the Allies.
Germany surrenders to the allies after Adolf Hitler commits sucide on April 30 after knowing Germany was going to lose the war. -
US drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
US drops atomic bomb in Nagaski
Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another Atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Japan surrenders
Japan surrenders to allies after two bombs are dropped on the cities of Nagaski and Hiroshima.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.”
