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Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany. It had taken Hitler's incredible war machine just 18 days to conquer Poland. -
Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history. German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force. 1700 Luftwaffe planes were destroyed. the Battle of Britain was a failure for both the Germans and the British, but it seriously raised the confidence of the Allied forces. -
Lend-Lease
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It provided that the president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted U.S. defense. -
Operation Barbarossa
the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. Operation Barbarossa won that war. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference. -
U.S. declares war on Japan and Germany
the United States Congress declared war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States entered the war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp. Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles. -
battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft. -
battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II. This opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. More than 160,000 Allied troops and about half of them Americans invaded Western Europe, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved to be a turning point in World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. So the significance of the Battle of the Bulge was that Germany's defeat and the end of the war in Europe came sooner. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Shortly before Germany's surrender, Soviet forces liberated the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps. US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. This is the war that the famous picture of marines standing up the U.S. flag to show their victory. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The explosion killed about 70,000 to 100,000 people and destroyed about 13 square kilometres of land. Three days later a much larger bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. It killed about 40,000 people.
