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Germany invaded Poland
Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland. In Britain, public opinion tended to favor some revision of the territorial and military provision of the Versailles treaty. -
Germany invaded France and captured Paris
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. -
Germany bombed London, and the Battle of Britain began
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately. -
The United States gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean
was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
it was the largest German military operation of World War II.Germany did this so that seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi movement. -
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. japan did it to to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions they planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
The United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway. This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. the battle was a sea and air battle. the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into to attack. -
American and other Allied troops landed in Normandy
Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control was what they were trying to claim back. -
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II.
