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Hitler invades Poland
The Polish army made several severe strategic miscalculations early on. Although 1 million strong, the Polish forces were severely under-equipped and attempted to take the Germans head-on with horsed cavaliers in a forward concentration, rather than falling back to more natural defensive positions. The outmoded thinking of the Polish commanders coupled with the antiquated state of its military was simply no match for the overwhelming and modern mechanized German forces. And, of course, any hope -
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Winter war: Fino-Soviética Battle
Stalin always thought that the annexation of Finland would be simple, but the defense of this country was very much major of them waited and the battle, which the agent chief executive was thinking to end at the end of 1939, spread up to beginnings of 1940. As the assaults were increasing, both parts were losing armament and his falls were growing. The fight spread several weeks and though Finland resisted several offensives, the USSR equally was gaining area. -
Operation Weserübung: Battle in Norway and Denmark
Both in Norway and in Denmark, the Germans sent thousands of soldiers to surround the territories. The Danishes, in order to avoid a spilling blood, yielded voluntarily Denmark to the Germans, reason for which they were minoritariamente rewarded and something was allowed them of autonomy. Whereas in case of Norway it was different. The Norwegians refused and fought, while the British troops and Frenchmen them were helping to battle against the Germans. During April, May and June, 1940, the allie -
Domination of Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both first ones were dominated rapidly and the German army annexed both countries without great armed fight. On the other hand, the Dutchmen objected a slight resistance, but little by little they yielded. Nevertheless, Germany bombarded and destroyed Róterdam's Dutch city, which stayed it devastates and it did that the Dutches were yielding themselves to the instant. The city remained destroyed almost in totality and the -
Battle of France
After seven weeks of battle, France realizes that it cannot against the German troops, reason for which the Frenchmen sign an armistice with Germany, in which the Germans were occupying the north half of the country, including cardinal Paris, and while, the south half would remain free, with a government puppet of fort German and Nazi influences. This government was called France of Vichy in honor to the new capital of the same name. The Kingdom of Italy, on the other hand, occupied a portion of -
Battle of England
Between ends of 1940 and beginnings of 1941, London had been bombarded mercilessly, destroying important places, provoking panic in the population and a hard blow for the United Kingdom. More than one million housings were devastated and the dead men in the English capital were more 45.000. Coventry's cities, Liverpool, Plymouth, Bristol and Southampton also were strongly bombed. -
Battle in Greece and Yugoslavia
But a much more extensive fight was given in the Kingdom of Greece. The Battle of Greece had begun in 1940, when the Italian army of Mussolini tried to dominate the zone. Nevertheless, the Greeks managed to make move back to Italy, doing that was returning to Italian Albania, which in this time was dominated by the Italians. But some months later, in April, 1941, Germany enters help of the Italian army and together they attack Greece. They enter from the Kingdom of Bulgaria (Operation Marita) an -
Operation Barbarroja
The first autumnal rains, they delayed a bit the German advance, doing that the Soviets were preparing themselves of better way. The Germans continued advancing, and city for city, were taking part of the USSR, but the Soviets, far from desisting, were revoking several military operations of Germany. For October, the Germans had come to Leningrad, doing a blockade of the city in order to dominate it. -
Moscu Battle
In spite of the German assaults, the Soviets were not stopping to enter the German soldiers and realized different tactics of defense in opposition to them. In addition, the winter arrival was very hard and I leave an evil scene for the war. The German soldiers were desisting gradually and for January, 1942, the front in Moscow had been paralyzed and the Soviets managed to liberate several localities of the surroundings. -
Atlantic Battle
With the entry of The United States to the war, the Germans went away also to attacking to that country. On the east coast of the Americans, Germany was sinking his ships and the warships. But from 1943, the Britishers and Americans began to win him to Germany in the Atlantic Ocean, sinking his ships and attacking his fleet. The danger of Or - boot was overcome by the rapid construction of allied ships that were destroying them. -
Battle of the Alamein
The Battle of The Alamein can refer to two battles between the United Kingdom and Germany freed in 1942 in The Alamein, during the Second World war. The first Battle of The Alamein (July 1 to July 27, 1942): the advance of the Afrikakorps is stopped by the Britishers. The second Battle of The Alamein (October 23 to November 4, 1942): the defensive lines of the Afrikakorps are broken by the Britishers. -
Battle of Stalingrado
Between August, 1942 and February, 1943, both nations initiated a fight in the city that would turn in the most bloody of the history of the humanity. The battle in Stalingrado charged more than 4 million victims and stopped in ruins to the city. The Luftwaffe, the air force of Germany, was bombarding every day to the city to make to desist to the Soviets. But the Red Army of Stalin was following his fight and was gaining every time major area in the contest. The German soldiers could not agains -
Guadalcanal's battle
In his beginnings, the battle in Guadalcanal was very partial for both decrees, being lived so much in the terrestrial, maritime and air area. In addition, in the first months, the assaults were very strong and so many United States like Japan they were suffering big falls. -
Battle of Italy
On July 10, 1943, the allied troops, especially British and American they invade the Kingdom of Italy, which was one of the principal powers of the Axis. The invasion initiated in the island of Sicily (Operation Husky), which the allies occupied for more than one month. Due to the invasion, Mussolini is arrested by the same king of Italy ending with the fascist Italy. Then, the allies enter to the italic peninsula across Messina's strait, advancing towards the north without many resistance. The -
Battle of Kursk
Hitler's plan was to attack the above mentioned projection and to recover the initiative in the war against the Soviet union. In spite of the big doubts in the high German control it brings over of the development of the operation and several weeks of delay owed to the wait of the new tanks Panzer V and Tiger I, Hitler, who confessed to feel " a deep headache " in this question, gave green light to the plan. Stalin, who knew of Hitler's intenciones thanks to the secret Soviet services, had time -
Campaign of the North
The Italians from his colony of the Italian Lybia advanced up to coming to the Kingdom of Egypt but the British forces made them move back doing that Hitler was taking the decision to send troops to Africa. It called Rommel and I explain his intentions to him in Africa it placing supervised by 5 ª division panzer light, Deutsches Afrikakorps making move back to the Britishers. -
Battle of Normandy and Liberation of France
The advance of the allies was very rapid, and in spite of the strong German resistance, the army of Hitler was losing area in the battle and was falling down before the allied offensives. In the beginning, the troops of Churchil and Roosevelt managed to dominate Saint-Lô and They fall down, then to continue for the south expelling the Germans. Before this, Hitler arranged several against assaults and invasions, but these were rapidly revoked by the British and American troops. Then, in Falaise, -
Saipán's battles
The invasion took Japan as a surprise, since this one was thinking that the Americans would attack first the Caroline Islands. The same day, troops Nipponeses came to Saipán and began a fight against the Americans. In the following weeks, since it was of be waiting, The United States squashed the Japanese and on July 9 conquered them completely. -
Operation Markel Garden
Market Garden, meant for Germany a forceful moral victory that they were coming needing urgently. With insured Holland, and therefore assured the most rapid routes towards Berlin, Hitler could breathe and to centre again on the Soviet Union. For the allies, this operation meant a hard reverse about that medium-term they would be sorry. To begin, they would have again that an alternative route to organize and to be looked towards Germany. -
Battle of the Ardenas
The battle was lived between December, 1944 and January, 1945, in the locality of the Ardennes, which shares Belgian, Luxemburg and French territories. During the first days, the Germans began favorably, but finally the troops allied of America and England achieved territory to win and to dominate them furthermore. Luxembourg and Belgium Nazi were liberated of the hands. -
Iwo Jima's battle
After having liberated to great part of the Japanese conquests in the Pacific Ocean and of having established military bases in the same ones, The United States prepared itself to enter in Japanese land. Though not directly in the island of the Empire of the Japan, yes in territories belonging to the nation. -
Battle of Berlin
The Soviets managed to enter Reichstag in-, provoking panic in the Germans. In addition, 30 that of April, Hitler commits suicide and leaves the Reich Al-Tercer sins a leader. This provokes that 07 that of May, 1945, Germany gives up itself the Soviets put the money of the initial bet and later, the sea occupied by the forces allied of The United States, United Kingdom Brittany her and Northern Ireland, France and the already entered Soviet Union. -
The second Sino-Japanese war
The entry of The United States to the war was very beneficial for the Chinese forces, since the Americans were attacking the Japanese in her pacifically and were debilitating enormously the Japanese army. The Japanese power in Chinese territory was diminished with the years and finally, with the surrender of the Empire of the Japan in 1945, China remains free of the Japanese forces and Manchuria returns to his territory. -
Atomic bombardments on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombardments on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear assaults arranged by Harry S. Truman, president of the United States, against the Empire of the Japan. The assaults effected 6 and on August 9, 1945, and put the final point to the Second World war.
