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On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II.
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The battle in the South Atlantic was the first major naval battle of World War Two. Ships from the Royal Navy’s South American Division Germany which was successfully attacking merchant shipping in the South Atlantic.
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II war waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during 1940. The objective of the attack was to gain air control over the Royal Air Force.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II in 1941.Over 4.5 million troops of the enemy invaded the Russia along a 1,800 mi front, the largest in the history of warfare.
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The Siege of Leningrad was a failed operation by german. It was one of the longest and most destructive battles in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties.
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surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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The loss of Tobruk was a huge blow to the morale of the Allies showed the different strategies shown in North Africa. The Battle of Gazala came after there had been a lull in the war in North Africa from February to mid-May 1942.
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one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea the United States defeated an attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on Japan.
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It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
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battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese naval troops, known as Kaigun Rikusentai (Special Naval Landing Forces), attacked the Allied airfields at Milne Bay
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The battle resulted in a severe crisis for Nazi Germany’s war machine in Russia.
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Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France
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decisive naval battle of World War II which eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions
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Considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history
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Surprise attack that caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States,
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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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Largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The Americans planned to use this island to attack the mainland of japan.
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Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany. Germany eventually fell.
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held by the Allies of World War II on September 7, 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the defeated Nazi Germany.
