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Germany invades Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
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Germany invades France
Germany brought war to western Europe with the primary goal of conquering France. German bombers hit bases in France, Luxembourg, Belgium.German paratroopers were dropped onto Allied points stopping a key element of France’s defense strategy. -
Germany invades Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation Barbarossa,Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation.Nineteen divisions, 3,000 tanks, 2,500 aircraft, and 7,000 artillery pour across a thousand-mile -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is when Japanese attacked USA in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. -
The battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal when the US Marines landed on. The landing at Guadalcanal took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition -
D-Day
60,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of French coastline to fight Nazi on the beaches of Normandy,France.More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the invasion, and the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. -
Battle of bulge
The German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor.The quality of his response ultimately meant the victory of freedom over tyranny. -
Battle for Iwo JIma
U.S. Marines stormed ashore on Iwo Jima. These landings opened more than a month of extremely bloody ground fighting between three Marine divisions and more than 20,000 Japanese defenders. -
Fire bombing of tokyo
U.S. warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours.Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerate -
VE day
German collapse came after the meeting of the Western and Russian armies at Torgau in Saxony, and after Hitler's death amid the ruins of Berlin which was falling and the surrendor of Germany was at Rheimes -
Battle of berlin
It was fought between April and May 1945, and the Russian victory saw the end of Hitler's Third Reich and the occupation of the city by the Red Army before it was divided into four as a result of the wartime meetings between the Allies. -
America drops Atomic Bomb
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. -
VJ day
Japan had surrendered effectively ending World War II.Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final close.
