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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht Crystal Night; also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnach. Hermann Göring met with other members of the Nazi leadership on 12 November to plan the next steps after the riot, setting the stage for formal government action. In the transcript of the meeting, -
Germany Invades Poland
Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. Germany turned its sights on Great Britain and bombed the city of London. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War. Pre-war theories led to exaggerated fears of strategic bombing, and British public opinion was invigorated by having come through the ordeal . -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. United States entered WW2. -
Battle of Midway
The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's shipbuilding and pilot training programs were unable to keep pace in replacing their losses while the U.S. steadily increased its output in both areas. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union.After the Battle of Stalingrad, German forces never recovered their earlier strength, and attained no further strategic victories in the East -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea",The Imperial Japanese Navy had suffered its greatest loss of ships and crew ever. Its failure to dislodge the Allied invaders from Leyte meant the inevitable loss of the Philippines, which in turn meant Japan would be all but cut off from its occupied territories in Southeast Asia. -
Iwo Jima
An island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands and together with them form the Ogasawara Archipelago also known as the Bonin Islands. The US occupied Iwo Jima until 1968 when it was returned to Japan. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. -
D-Day
The landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy. After D-Day, the Germans lost their grip on France and now had to deal with Allied forces in the west.
