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Invansion of Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action of Nazi Germany aimed at annexing the Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the "White Case", began on September 1, 1939 and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that same year. -
German offensive to the east
The East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. -
Invasion of the USSR
Operation Barbarossa, undertaken on June 22 of 1941, was the code name given by Adolf Hitler to the invasion plan of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during World War II. -
Japanese atack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, December 7 of 1941. -
American victory at Midway
The Battle of Midway was a naval confrontation that took place in 1942 in the Pacific Ocean between US and Japanese forces, during World War II, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which had marked the beginning of the war in the Pacific. -
Allied landings in North Africa
Operation Torch was the landing and advance towards Tunisia of the Anglo-American troops in the Second World War during the campaign in North Africa, which began on November 8, 1942. -
Italy surrenders
The Armistice with Italy was an armistice, signed on September 3 and publicly declared on September 8 of 1943, during the Second World War, between Italy and the Allied armed forces, which had occupied the extreme south of the country, which led to the Italian capitulation. -
Allied landings in Normandy
The battle of Normandy, code-named Operation Overlord, was the military operation carried out by the Allies during the Second World War that culminated in the liberation of the territories of Western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hidroshim and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S.
Truman, president of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. -
Germany surrenders
Germany surrenders to the United States and the Soviet Union ending the Second World War in Europe. On 08-05-1945 Germany signed the capitulation without conditions before the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. -
Japan surrenders
The surrender of Japan in World War II occurred on August 15 of 1945 and was signed on September 2 of 1945.
The Empire of Japan accepted the Declaration of Potsdam signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet.