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Germany invades Poland
After securing the neutrality of the Soviet Union,Germany started World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939.Britian and France declared war on Germany in two days.Poland was defeated by German and Soviet forces and was partitioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War or the Fourth Partition of Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss (Case White) in Germany -
declaration of the war
After Germany started World War II by invading Poland on September 1st, 1939 Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3rd. -
Canada declared war
Canada is a more independent country at this time.Due to the statue of Westminster,Canada could decide whether or not go to war by herself.
At the same time,people afraid the issue of conscription could divide Canada again.
Canada declared the war on 10th September,1939 -
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"phony war"
There are nothing happened in the seven month after the fall of Poland,amount of people started to believe there might not be a war ,this period became known as the "peony war" -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
On this day in history, the Germans launch an attack on both Norway and Denmark by using blizkrieg,an extremely successful war tactic,Danmark and Norway becoming the second and third nation invaded and captured by Hitler. -
Germany invades Netherlands
The Battle of the Netherlands saw one of the first major uses of paratroopers to occupy crucial targets prior to ground troops reaching the area.
The battle ended soon after the devastating bombing of Rotterdam by the German Luftwaffe and the subsequent threat by the Germans to bomb other large Dutch cities if Dutch forces refused to surrende. -
Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium
As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain.
British and French forces attempted to stop the German invasion, but they had trouble holding against the initial invasion army, let alone the 15,000 airborne troops and gliders that the Germans would use. Within a week, the Dutch army had surrendered, and Germans began to capture the majority of Belgium. -
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Evacuation at Dunkirk
A large part of the British force, accompanied by some of the French defenders, is pushed to the English Channel and compelled to abandon the continent at Dunkirk.They had to escape before the Germans captured the town.Thy British navy rounded up every boat capable of navigating the English Channel.Winston Churchill called the event in France "a colossal military disater".It was a dramatic rescue.Nearly 340,000 Allied soliders were brought to safety in Britian. -
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Evacuation at Dunkirk
Germaans surrounded 338,000 Allied soldiers,military and civilian helped evacuate the soldiers;however,all the weapons and equipment were lost. -
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North-African Campain
Italy invaded Egypt in September of 1940, and in a December counterattack, British and Indian forces captured 130,000 Italians. Hitler sent in the"Afrika Korps". Several long, brutal pushes back and forth across Libya and Egypt reached a turning point in the Second Battle of El Alamein,when British Eighth Army broke out and drove Axis forces all the way from Egypt to Tunisia.In November,thousands of British and American forces to join the attack, eventually ending the Campaign for North Africa. -
France surrenders to Germany
Hitler unleashes his blitzkrieg invasion of the Low Countries and France with a fury on May 10, 1940. Within three weeks, a large part of the British force, and some of the French defenders, is pushed to the English Channel and compelled to abandon the continent at Dunkirk.The German advance continues to sweep southward.The French abandon Paris, declaring it an open city. -
the beginning of The Battle Of Britian
The German"Luftwaffe''(airforce) started a massive bombing campaign,aimed at destroying harbours and shipping facilities in southern England. -
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Battle of Britian
In retaliation of Germany,the RAF bombed Berlin,and Hitler ordered to bomb British cities."the Blitz"took place over many weeks.The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces,and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.The Germans needed to control the English Channel to launch her invasion of Britian.To control the Channel the Germans needed control of the air. This meant that they had to take on Fighter Command. -
Germans bombed London
In August,the Germans targeted airfields and aircraft factories and bombed several areas of London.(some historians believe this was accidential) -
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Operation Barbarossa
The Soviets were unprepared for the sudden blitzkreig attacks across a border,and they suffered horrible losses. Within a single week,By December of 1941, German troops were within sight of Moscow;However, when the winter set in,German advances came to a halt. By the end of this, one of the largest,deadliest military operations in history,Despite massive advances, Hitler's plan to conquer the Soviet Union before winter had failed, at great cost, and that failure would prove to be a turning point -
The Dieppe Raid
The Dieppe Raid as a Second World War Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe.The Dieppe Raid is one of the greatest tragedy for Canada during the WW2 -
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Battle of Sicily
The Battle of Sicily was the opening move in the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The battle would also mark the first protracted combat deployment of a Canadian formation during the war. The Allied invasion of Sicily began with parachute assaults on the night of 9-10 Jul 1943, followed by amphibious landings in several locations on the south coast the next morning. -
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Battle of Ortona
The Battle of Ortona was a battle fought between a battalion of German Fallschirmjäger, and assaulting Canadian forces . It was the culmination of the fighting on the Adriatic front in Italy during "Bloody December". The battle, dubbed "Little Stalingrad" for the deadliness of its close-quarters combat, took place in the small Adriatic Sea town of Ortona, with its peacetime population of 10,000. -
Juno Beach
Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 , by units of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, who took heavy casualties in the first wave but by the end of the day succeeded in wresting control of the area from defending German troops. -
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Battle of the Scheldt
The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations. The battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II from October 2 to November 8, 1944 -
battle of the Rhineland
The Battle of the Rhineland was fought in Feb-Mar 1945 between Allied forces from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States (as well as smaller national contingents), and the German forces occupying territory south and west of the Rhine River during the North-West Europe campaign of the Second World War.
