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Britain and France declare war
France was occupied by Germany until 1944. France and Britain declared war on Germany because they were destroying their homelands and it was not good so they stepped up but then France got defeated. -
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End of WW2
at the end of WW2, it is estimated of total deaths ranging from 70 million to 85 million. World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. WW2 was an awful time in so many lives and when it ended so many were grateful that it ended. -
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invasion of Poland
At 4:45 a.m. 1.5 mill German troops invade Poland. To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people. On August 31, Nazi troops wearing Polish uniforms staged an invasion on Germany, damaging things on the German side of the border. They left behind a handful of dead concentration camp prisoners in Polish uniforms to show Poland invaded the Germans. 66,000 dead,133,700 injured 694,000 taken. Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule Poland. -
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end of WW2 in Europe
At the end of World War II, huge swaths of Europe and Asia had been reduced to ruins. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway. But the massive efforts to rebuild had just begun. When the war began in the late 1930s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the Axis the Allied powers had resulted in 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world. -
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Hitler invades France
the Germans just walked into France and defeated them. then France makes Germany sign an armistice. he wanted more land so he took France over and they were defeated and surrendered. 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. In the six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, -
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Miracle of Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. -
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Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain was when Germany bombed Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion. the British were able to fight them off and win the battle. they had the advantage of fighting over their own land, they were defending their homeland, they had radar. it allowed the British to know when and where German planes were coming. This gave them time to get their planes in the air to help defend. The code name for Hitler's invasion plans was Operation Sea Lion. -
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Peral Harbor
Why Attack Pearl Harbor? As the war was inevitable, Japan's only chance was the element of surprise and to destroy America's navy as quickly as possible. Japan wanted to move into the Dutch East Indies and Malaya to conquer territories that could provide important natural resources such as oil and rubber. The attack lasted 2 hrs. 2403 people died. Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Arizona “continues to spill up to 9 quarts of oil in the harbor each day.” visitors call it “tears of the Arizona” -
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The U.S enters WW2
Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference. which is why the U.S enters the war. -
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 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. The Battle of Midway was a decisive victory for the United States and the turning point in the Pacific War. Four important Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed which enabled America to halt the Japanese advance in the Pacific. -
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Raid on Dieppe
the Allies launched a major raid on the French coastal port of Dieppe. Operation Jubilee was the first Canadian Army engagement in the European theatre of the war, designed to test the Allies' ability to launch amphibious assaults against Adolf Hitler's "Fortress Europe." it happened in Dieppe, France. this lasted nine hours. The landings were supported by some 250 Royal Navy vessels and 1,000 Royal Air Force and Canadian Air Force planes. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler wanted to take over Stalingrad, Russians would not let them take it. The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany during World War II. After losing the battle, the German army lost many soldiers and took such a defeat that they never quite recovered. Adolf Hitler was very angry at General Paulus for losing the battle. He stripped Paulus of his rank and held a day of mourning for the shame Paulus had brought on Germany by losing. -
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D-day
Also called doomsday. it happened on the beach of Normandy.was a top-secret mission called "Operation Overlord." When they landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, the goal of every soldier was to drive the German military back. this happened because of the Treaty of Versailles. Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed.D-Day was carried out along five sections of the beachfront. All five beaches were secured by Allied forces by June 11. -
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A-Bombs dropped on hiroshima
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. The bomb blast in Hiroshima was of such intensity that it permanently burned the shadows of people and objects into the ground. These became known as “Hiroshima shadows”. -
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A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Nagasaki. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” killed so many people and destroyed the city.