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In September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland essentially starting WW2
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In 1940 the German ‘Blitzkrieg’ overwhelmed Holland, Belgium and France. The term blitzkrieg means lightning war
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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War in July - September 1940. The Blitz of British cities was an intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom
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In May/June of 1940, the evacuation of Dunkirk occurred. It was the evacuation of 338000 allied soldiers.
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General Erwin Rommel turned his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk. Britain had established control of Tobruk after routing the Italians in 1940
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operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Despite having a non-aggression pact with Stalin, Adolf Hitler had strong anti-Russian feelings -
the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. -
The fall of Singapore happened because the island's defence was poorly planned and executed. Allied forces were spread too thin to resist the Japanese when they landed on the north-west of the island on 8 February -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
In December 1942, The first new of atrocities against Jewish people reached the Allied forces. This led to much conflict between them. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
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on April 1945 the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened , American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima.