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Invasion of Poland
Hitler's voice was heard on the radio. He claimed that Germany had been attacked by Poland and that they had ‘started to fire back at 5:45 am’. However, his story about the Polish attack was a lie. German soldiers, dressed as Poles, had attacked a radio station in the border town of spread false information. It gave Hitler an excuse to attack Poland.The German army used a lot of violence.The Air Force in particular caused a lot of damage.Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.The British officially recognise the battle's duration as being from 10 July to 31O ct 1940, which overlaps the period of large-scale night attacks known as the Blitz, that lasted one year. -
Battle of Midway
After expanding the war in the Pacific to include western colonies, the Japanese Empire quickly attained its initial strategic goals of British Hong Kong, the Philippines, British Malaya, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies, the latter of whose oil resources were particularly important to Japan. Because of this, preliminary planning for the second phase of operations commenced as early as January 1942. -
German surrender
Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France. -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945,United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 246,000 people,most of whom were civilians, remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 Aug,6 days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria.