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German Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland to justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France. The SS, in collusion with the German military, staged a phony Polish attack on a German radio station. Hitler then used this action to launch a “retaliatory” campaign against Poland.
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Allies' main objectives were to blockade the Axis powers (limiting productivity and diminishing morale), to secure their own shipping routes, and to wage war overseas without any impediment. The protracted struggle by the Allies to secure shipping routes across the Atlantic. -
Fall of France
A German assault on north-west Europe, resulted in the capture of not only France but three other countries, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium, after the German invasion of Poland. -
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Escape from Durkin
This was an evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops from Dunkirk to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation. This evacuation started on May 26th and lasted through June 4th 1940. About 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops were saved from the French seaport of Durkin.
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Invasion of The Soviet Union
German forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, less than two years after the German-Soviet Pact was signed. Three army groups—including more than three million German soldiers, supported by 650,000 troops from Germany's allies (Finland and Romania), and later augmented by units from Italy, Croatia, Slovakia and Hungary—attacked the Soviet Union across a broad front.
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Battle of Coral Sea
In 1942 the Japanese wanted to seize the coral sea by establishing air bases at Port Moresby. But Allied intelligence learned of the Japanese plan to seize Port Moresby and alerted all available sea and air power. When the Japanese landed at Tulagi on May 3, U.S. planes from a task force struck the group, sinking one destroyer and some minesweepers and landing barges.
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First Battle of El Alamein
At 2.30am on 1 July, Rommel launched his attack. But by mid-afternoon a barrage of British artillery fire cut the Field Marshal off from his headquarters for more than two hours, and the Axis offensive ground to a halt. The Allied forces' Grant tanks were giving them a material advantage against the previously superior German tanks - and in addition, the British tanks simply outnumbered the Germans. -
Second Battle of El Alamein
Rommel knew that a major attack was inevitable, and did his best to prepare for it. He was a master of mobile warfare, but he had to change his preferred tactics due to a lack of fuel and transport. He chose to shelter his force behind a deep and complex minefield. -
The Casablanca Conference
Churchill, Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff attended, along with US Field Marshal Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Alexander. The aim of the conference was to decide future strategy: high on the agenda was an attack against the Germans in France.
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Invasion of Sicily
The capture of Sicily was a vital stepping-stone for the campaign in Italy, although the Allies were at fault in failing to prevent the Axis from successfully evacuating their best divisions from the island to continue the defensive battle on the mainland.
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Battle of The Buldge
The German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. link text -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta.. The “Big Three” Allied leaders discuss key issues on ending WWll. Having discussed these key issues, the Big Three agreed to meet again after Germany’s surrender.
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Surrender of Germany
This instrument of surrender was signed on May 7, 1945. At the same time, he signed three other surrender documents, one each for Great Britain, Russia, and France. -
Surrender of Japan
Intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. So Japan surrendered.
