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Victories and expansion of the Axis
The Axis Powers in the Second World War, were the belligerent side that fought against the Allies, being integrated and led by Germany, the Empire of Japan and the Kingdom of Italy, in addition to the help of other countries. These nations formed a Tripartite Pact that later derived into what was called the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Block. -
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September following the Molotov–Tōgō agreement that terminated the Soviet and Japanese Battles of Khalkhin Gol in the east on 16 September. -
German offensive to the West
On May 10, 1940, the German army, the Wehrmacht, launched its offensive on Western Europe. That day, three neutral countries, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, were attacked by two army groups, in total 74 divisions, ten of them armored. The Germans went on the offensive after months of inactivity at the front. On September 3, 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Hitler after he invaded Poland. -
Invasion of the USSR
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans (Lebensraum), to use Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate the rest according to Generalplan Ost, and to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus. -
Japanese attack against Pearl Harbour
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. -
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Reconquests and victories from the Allies
This was a process in which the Allies's forces won many battles, this fact turned the war (at that moment leaded by the German Empire) into a war with more benefits for the Allies. -
American victory in Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.[6][7][8] The United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union. Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it was the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw vast military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch (8-16 November 1942) was an Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. It was aimed at reducing pressure on Allied forces in Egypt, and enabling an invasion of Southern Europe. It also provided the 'second front’ which the Soviet Union had been requesting since it was invaded by the Germans in 1941. -
Armistice of Italy
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies during World War II. It was signed at a conference of generals from both sides in an Allied military camp at Cassibile in Sicily, which had recently been occupied by the Allies. The armistice stipulated the surrender of Italy to the Allies. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Known as D-Day). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August. -
German Instrument of Surrender
The German capitulation records ended the Second World War in Europe. The text was signed on May 8, 1945 in Karlshorst, Berlin by representatives of the three armed forces of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Allied Forces being the supreme Soviet, American and French supreme positions, observers of the firm. The previous day there was another document signed in Reims. In commemoration, this day is known as the Day of Victory in Europe. -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the British Empire and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945
