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Rhineland
The area that Germany took to get closer to France. Adolf Hitler sent over 20,000 troops back into the Rhineland, an area that is now France. Hitler wasn't met with any sort of force to stop. -
Non aggression Pact
A treaty between two countries that promises they won’t fight each other. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. This nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II. -
Blitzkrieg
Called the lighting war, Blitzkrieg was a bunch of attacks by Germany who sent planes, tanks and infantry to attack Poland. German forces swept through Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France with astonishing speed and force. -
Battle of Britain
The battle of Britain was a fight fought between Britain and Germany. Britain had control of the English channel so Germany had to take control from the air. The Battle of Britain was a military campaign. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. While the French colonies formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Operation Torch was successful and ended in 1943 -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Midway became one of the most important American naval victories of World War II. One of Japan's main goals during World War II was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory -
Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Germany lost the battle due to it's disadvantages in numbers and Hitler didn't really understand what he was getting into. -
D-day:Operation over lord
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, June 6th 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Germany had the upper hand because they were stationed on land and higher ground. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. Hitler's aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany.The battle proved to be the costliest ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
End of the War
Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed.