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The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Wei in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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Decisive Axis and Soviet victory Beginning of World War II Polish territory divided between Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Slovakia.
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The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.
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Decisive British victory
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union.
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Decisive Soviet victory. Destruction of the German 6th Army
Axis forces began to decline on the Eastern Front. The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point of World War II in the European theatre. -
Members of the 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, move past a destroyed American M5 "Stuart" tank on their march to capture the town of St. Vith at the close of the Battle of the Bulge. St. Vith was largely destroyed during the ground battle and subsequent air attack. American forces retook the town on 23 January 1945.
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Decisive Allied victory, German operational failure
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Was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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American victory
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End of World War II in Europe
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End of World War II in Europe
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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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On 1 July 1991, in Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR
