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Nazi Germany invaded poland. This grabbed the eyes of the french and british, this is what is said to of have started the war.
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Blitzkrieg in German means quick war. So the germans moved in swiftly to Holland, Belgium and france using tanks, mobile infantry and artillery infantry to catch them off guard
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Dunkirk was the place of many european battles. Many bombings occurred in the process of evacuation slowing down the process dramtically.
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The bombing raids from Nazi Germany on london. The raids was a failed attempt to defeat British RAF
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The axis invasion of the soviet union. It was germany's attempt at conquering more of europe
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A Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour Hawaii. A number of explosives were dropped on Pearl Harbour weakening the US navy fleet
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Tobruk was the only deep sea port that was located in Libya. Germany attempted to seize the port catching allied forces completely of guard.
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Japanese scheme to defeat singapore. It was the final battle after having advanced from the malaysian peninsular.
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A battle between Japan in the US in the middle of the pacific ocean. It was won by the US in one of the most known air-sea battles.
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This stopped the Nazi's advance to the Soviet Union. To this day one of the bloodiest battles with over 2 million dead
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Allied invasion of Normandy, France. It was a seaborn invasion that turned the war around in the Allied favours.
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Auschwitz was a Nazi concentration camp. The Soviets came in and found moldering dead bodies and people living in very poor conditions.
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The us dropped 'fat man' and 'little boy' in the towns Hiroshima and Nagaski in Japan. These atomic bombs killed well over a 100,000 innocent civilians.