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Germany invades Poland
Germany uses blitzkrieg,in other words lightning war, to dominate Poland -
Rescue at Dunkirk
Soldiers are trapped at Dunkirk. hundreds of ships and boats rescue the trapped soldiers. -
Battle of Britian
Germany bombs Britain. Britain has radar, to seek German planes. -
Battle of Crete
The Battle of Crete was fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. It began when Nazi Germany began an airborne invasion of Crete. -
Germany invaded Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese aircraft bomb the fleet of American warships. -
Doolittle Raid
Raised moral. Damage was negligible -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Takes place between carrier based aircraft. Americans lose more ships -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces, was a military. -
Invasion Of Italy
Conquered sicily and moved to the mainland -
Attacks at Monte Cassino
Cassino had to be captured by the Allies in order to gain access to the Liri Valley, the so-called 'gateway to Rome.' -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Operation BodenPlatte
In Europe Allied air forces operating from airfields in Holland, Belgium and northern France are surprised by a sudden attack by more than 800 diverse aircraft which the Luftwaffe has assembled from all possible locations, despite their loss of 50 many in recent weeks. -
First Atomic Bomb Dropped
The world's first atomic bomb (Uranium), Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber piloted by Colonel Tibbets of the 509th Composite Group, the first military unit in the history to drop a nuclear bomb in combat.
