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The polish campaign
The Polish campaign was a military operation directed at the territorial invasion of Poland in two distinct phases: from 1 September 1939 from Germany and from 17 September from the Soviet Union, in order to divide up Polish territory at the end of operations. campaign begun on September 1 ended October 6 with the surrender of the last Polish forces; the invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II -
West attack
Germany attacked the West on May 10, 1940. The main German attack went through southeastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. The Germans quickly crossed the French defensive lines and advanced towards the coast, Belgium and the Netherlands surrendered in May. Paris, fell into the hands of the Germans on June 14, 1940. As part of the armistice agreement that France signed with Germany on June 22, it occupied the north of that country and its entire Atlantic coast to the border with Spain. -
USSR attack
With the code name "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in what was the largest German military operation of the Second World War. The destruction of the Soviet Union through the use of military force, the permanent elimination of what was perceived as a communist threat to Germany, and the confiscation of important land within the Soviet borders to establish long-term German settlements had been a central policy of the Nazi movement. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor (US naval base located in Hawaii) on the morning of December 7, 1941. The surprise attack was directed at the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy and the air forces They defended the area. The attack left 2,403 soldiers. The United States took between six months and a year to recover.American public opinion saw the attack as an act of treason and united strongly against the Japanese Empire, which was ultimately defeated in 1945 -
The battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a conflict between June 4 and 7, 1942, in which American naval forces halted the Japanese attempt to invade Midway Atoll, where the US had a military base. The Japanese defeat was a serious obstacle to their expansion plans for the rest of the Pacific and was a turning point in the whole of World War II. For this reason, Midway is generally considered the most important battle of the Pacific War. Although both sides suffered losses. -
The battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was a warlike confrontation between the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and its Axis allies for the control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad, between August 23, 1942 and February 2 1943.The battle developed in the course of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the battle of Stalingrad is considered the bloodiest battle in history. It represents the beginning of the end of Nazism in Europe. -
Operation Torch,British invasion of French North Africa.
Operation Torch, was a joint US-British invasion of French North Africa. The decision to invade North Africa was reached by Roosevelt and Churchill. Attacking Germany through France was considered the most efficient way to suppress the Germans But the British did not believe they had the strength to do so. The British convinced the Americans that attacking North Africa would allow the Allied forces to control southern Europe without encountering the Germans. -
The Cassibile armistice:Italy surrend
The Cassibile armistice (also called the short armistice) was an agreement signed secretly on September 3, 1943, in the Santa Teresa Longarini district of Syracuse, 3 km from the village of Cassibile, a place from which the armistice was named, and was the act with which the Kingdom of Italy ceased hostilities towards the Allies during the Second World War and sanctioned the beginning of the Italian resistance against Nazi fascism. -
The operation Overlord
The Operation Overlord, was the military operation carried out by the Allies that culminated in the liberation of the territories of Western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany.The operation began on June 6,1944, better known as Day D.An airborne assault carried out by one thousand two hundred airships.On June 6, one hundred and sixty thousand soldiers crossed the Channel of England from England to France and by the end of August the allied troops on French soil were more than three million. -
V-E DAY:
"V-E DAY" was proclaimed on 8 May 1945, the date on which the Second World War ended in Europe.It was the day when the allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany,with the entry into force of the armistice between Germany and the allied forces.On April 30 Adolf Hitler took his own life during the battle of Berlin,so the surrender was authorized by the German president Admiral Karl Dönitz.The military surrender act was signed on May 7 in Reims,France. -
The atomic war
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two nuclear attacks made at the end of World War II by the United States in Japan,which marked the epilogue of the conflict.On August 6,1945,the US Air Force dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima,followed three days later by the launch of the "Fat Man" bomb on Nagasaki.The number of direct victims is estimated to be almost exclusively civilian(100,000/200,000),It the first and only use of such weapons in war. -
Japan surrend
On 2 September 1945, with the final and official surrender of the Japanese Empire, the armistice was written which put an end to the Pacific War and the Second World War.The ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay on the bridge of the USS Missouri, lasted about 23 minutes and was broadcast all over the world. The first signing of the surrender was that of the Japanese foreign minister Momoru Shigemitsu, in the name of the Emperor of Japan Hirohito and of the Government of Japan.
