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Germany engages in territorial aggression with various countries (timespan)
"How Europe Went To War In 1939. The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in human history. Years of international tension and aggressive expansion by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany culminated in the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.Sep 1, 2014" -
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Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
"On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany." -
The Japanese attacked the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
"President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans." -
D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
"The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they attacked German positions at Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944." -
The Germans launched a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge.
"Battle of the Bulge begins. On December 16, 1944, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium." -
VE Day
On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. -
Two atomic bombs dropped by the US on 2 cities in Japan (timespan).
"On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure." -
Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
"On September 2, 1945, representatives from the Japanese government and Allied forces assembled aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which effectively ended World War II. The document was prepared by the U.S. War Department and approved by President Harry S. Truman."