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Germany invades Poland
At exactly 4:45 am, 1.5 million German troops invade Poland. This date is said to be the outbreak of World War II but there were still other wars and fights going on between the countries. Between east Prussia in the north, and Slovakia in the south, German units were set up and used there military arms such as the German Luftwaffe and U boats to bomb Polish airfields and naval forces consisting of more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes that broke through the Polish defenses along the borde -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
On this day, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, France and Great Britain, both allies declare war on Germany. It started when the British ocean liner, Athenia, was sunk by a German U-30 submarine that thought the linear was armed and ready for attack. With more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of them lost their lives. When President Roosevelt heard about this tragedy, he made it clear that no one was to, “thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields -
Germany takes over all of Western Europe.
Initially, the British and the French commanders thought that German forces would attack through central Belgium, just like they did in World War I. Instead, the Germans attacked through the Ardennes Forest in southeestern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. German tanks and military weapons easily defeated the French defensive lines and advanced on to the coast. Shortly after Belgium and Netherlands surrendered. The French capital fell to the Germans on June 14, along with entire northern part of -
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia.
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia aka operation Barbarossa was the codename for Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union during World War II. About four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the sovietUnion, which was centered in Moscow, Russia. This date was so important in World War II because it marked the because this was the last and final piece Germany needed to capture to have control of almost entire Europe. It showed the rapid escalation of the war, both geographically and i -
Hitler annexed the country of Austria into Germany.
German troops, charged by Adolf Hitler marched into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation. This is also called Anschluss. In the early year of 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government. They were Nazi’s who were hidden in Austria, wanted to unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to reassert his country’s independence. On March 12, Hitler accompanied German troo -
D-day and the Normandy invasion.
this term that is commonly used as military lingo was also used on June 6, 1944, as the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the coast of the beaches of Normandy, France. This was the start of the freedom of Western Europe from Naxi control. Within three months, France was free and prepared for the invasion to enter Germany and stop the Nazis along with the help of the Soviet forces who were moving in from the east. They knew that at this point in the war, with Hitler’ -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders to the Allies
Hitler moved to Führerbunker in was an air-raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. There he held brief meetings with generals and reports on the invasion they were hit with by the Allied forces. During a three hour military conference in the bunker, Hitler commanded frantic orders to defend Berlin with their troops but they were already wiped out by the Allied forces. This was when Hitler had realized his fall in power and the advances of the Allied forces that had ov
