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The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Great Britain and France Declare War on Nazi Germany
following the German invasion of Poland two days earlier on September 1, 1939. -
The Invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands & France
Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Luxembourg was occupied that same day. The Netherlands surrendered on 15 May, Belgium on the 28th. -
The Battle & Great Escape at Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. -
The Battle of Britain
Germany's failure to defeat the RAF and secure control of the skies over southern England made invasion all but impossible. British victory in the Battle of Britain was decisive, but ultimately defensive in nature – in avoiding defeat, Britain secured one of its most significant victories of the Second World War. -
Selective Service & Training Act
On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. -
Lend- lease Assistance Act
set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." -
The attack on pearl harbor
was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor -
America enters world war 2
The United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941, following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941, which led Congress to declare war against Japan the following day; Germany and Italy, Japan's allies, then declared war on the United States shortly after, officially bringing America into the conflict on multiple fronts. -
germany and italy declare war
Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. -
The battle of the coral sea
was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. -
The battle of midway island
was a key battle to secure dominance in the Pacific in World War II. Learn more about the strategies employed during this battle. -
The invasion of north africa
was called Operation Torch and marked the Allied landing in French North Africa, primarily in Morocco and Algeria, during World War II, led by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower; this operation was the first major combat action for US ground forces against the Axis powers in the war. -
The invasion of Sicily and Italy
during World War II, the invasion of the Italian island of Sicily by Allied forces. The conquest of Sicily took a little more than a month and it led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian government to the Allies. -
The D Day invasion of France
the Allies launched the long-anticipated invasion of Normandy, France. Soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations faced Hitler's formidable Atlantic Wall as they landed on the beaches of Normandy. -
Nazi concentration camp
Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory -
The battle of the bulge
also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.[16] It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. -
The Yalta conference
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States -
V-E day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May. -
The atomic bomb Hiroshima
the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. -
The atomic bomb of Nagasaki
The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
V-J day
is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.