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Invasion of Poland a.k.a "Blitzkrieg"
one of the many interesting things about this event was that not to long before when hitler was on his rise to power he had signed a non agression pact with Poland. Hitler more or less invaded Poland to expand his nazi empire. -
Invasion of France
Initially, British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I. however the main german attack went through the Ardennes Forest. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks. The largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. -
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Attack on 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, Hawaii Territory. -
Battle of Bataan
The Battle of Bataan was a battle that represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
he Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Manhatten Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.