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Germany invades Poland
On Ist of September 1939, German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. With the ambition of Adolf Hitler who wanted to regain the territory which German lost, and German got Poland in the final that started to World War II. On August, the German-Soviet Pact of which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, so Germany doesn't need to fear Soviet intervention for attacking Poland. Poland was defeated with short weeks. -
Britain & France declare war on Germany
In response the invasion of Poland, Britain, and France had sworn to defend Poland, Both allies Britain and France of the overrun nation declare war on German.They ask Hitler retreat his troops from Poland, but Hitler refused that. On 3rd of Sep, prime minister Chamberlain declared to the Britain people the war between their country and Germany, but Chamberlain only had little help for Poles.The final blow came was that Soviet fight from the east when they have the secret agreement with Germany. -
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Churchill, who was known for his military leadership ability, was appointed British prime minister in his place. He won the support from all the Britons. On 13th of May, Churchill declared in the first statement "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" also he provided his bold plans for British resistance. In the first year, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, he said the british people will never surrender. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
The Dunkirk Evacuation is the evacuation of Allied soldiers during WW2 from the beach and harbor of Dunkirk that is in the north of France, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation from 26 May to 4 June 1940. -
Italy enters war on side of Axis power
Axis alliance was Germany, Italy, and Japan. After German invaded Poland on 1939. Europe started the war, and in 10th of June 1940, Italy joined World War II on Axis side as France was defeated. -
France signs armistice with Germany
The Armistice was signed at 18:39, 22th of June, 1940 by Nazis Germany and French third republic. The day they signed "Armistice" which called for the French to end hostilities and pay the cost of the German invasion. The northern two-thirds of France would remain under German occupation, while southern France would be left free, governed by what would be called the Vichy government. The Nazis also pledged to evacuate northwestern France once fighting with the British had ended. -
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion was that planned by Germany for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.Hoping to destroy the British forces with the Air Force, and then send troops to land the British, but because of the defeat of the British air combat, resulting in the plan cannot be implemented. -
Tripartite Pact signed
The "Tripartite Pact " was signed between Germany, Japan, and Italy in Berlin on 27th of September, 1940 The aim of the "Tripartite Pact" was that to "assist one another with all political, economic and military means” "assist any party who has not been involved in the war and attacked", and "Support and cooperate with each other in order to achieve their goal of establishing and maintaining a new order" -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain started officially on 10 June 1940, The Battle of Britain was that the effort by the Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, as many countries who were defeated by German, they attended the ranks of defending Britain. American made "Eagle Squadrons", and Italian "Corpo Aereo Italiano" that help Britain won the sky war with German on 12th of Oct. Germany had to abandon "Unternehmen Seelöwe" that also called "Operation Sea Lion" for losing their sky armies -
First Battle of EL Alamein
The "First Battle of EL Alamein" was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign from 1st to 27th of July during World War II that was fighting between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army in Egypt. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943. -
Siege of Tobruk
The siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941 that was the long battles in the Western Desert Campaign in western Africa with Axis powers surrounded the forces of the Allied forces in Triassic. The fighting beginning in 10th of April 1941 that attacked to the Toruk, and in 11th of April it completed the encirclement, all the way for 240 days, was the 8th Army Crusade action lifted. -
Operation Barbarossa
The "Operation Barbarossa" was that for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union which started from 22nd of June to 5th of December. In the first few months of the war, German was using "Lighting War" that help him got the victory in the Western Europe, but it was destroyed by "Schlacht um Moskau" that became Hitler and Nazis' turnning point. Because of the failure of Operation Barbarossa that started for several years of the German-Soviet war that made the Thousands of people were killed. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of pearl harbor was that was a surprise attack by the Japanese against the US at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941.The plan to attack Pearl Harbor comes from diplomatic conflicts between Japan and the US. After the war between China and Japan, In order to continue the war against China, the Japanese national policy gradually to capture the resources of other countries plan. For the event, US got angry for Japanese's Undefeated action, US also attened WWII -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of pearl harbor was that was a surprise attack by the Japanese against the US at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941.The plan to attack Pearl Harbor comes from diplomatic conflicts between Japan and the US. After the war between China and Japan, In order to continue the war against China, the Japanese national policy gradually to capture the resources of other countries plan. For the event, US got angry for Japanese's Undefeated action, the US also attended WWII -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
Britain and US declaration war on Japan for the response after Japanese forces had executed an attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacks on British forces in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The declaration was printed in the Japanese newspaper on 8th of December, it printed again on the eighth day of each month throughout the war. -
Japan takes Singapore
Japan took Singapore during World War II, The battle between Japanese and British forces on the Malay Peninsula continued throughout December and January, it made hundreds more people's death, and Britain was forced to abandon and evacuate many of their positions. Singapore was occupated by Japan after the military of Japan defeated Britain, Indian, Australian, and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore, but later on, Singapore was officially returned to British on 12 September 1945 -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway began from 4th to 7th of June, 1942 which was An important battle for the Second World War.It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. The United States Navy defeated the Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theater. The loss of four aircraft carriers was devastating to the Japanese. They also lost a number of other ships, 248 aircraft, and over 3,000 sailors. -
Second Battle of EL Alamein
The "Second Battle of EL Alamein" was from 23th of October to 11th of November, 1942, that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. As a decisive land and air offensive by the British Eighth Army under the command of General Bernard Montgomery aimed at destroying the German Panzer Army Africa controlled by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The open desert of North Africa was utilized to great effect by Montgomery who used many strategies, the Axis was being weak, forces surrendered -
Battle of Stalingrad
The "Battle of Stalingrad" was from 23rd of August to 2nd, 1943 of February, 1943 that the fighting between Germany and the Soviet Union for controlling the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. It was one of the largest and deadliest battles in World War II. It was a turning point in the war. After losing the battle, the German army lost so many soldiers and took such a defeat that they never quite recovered. -
D-Day Landings
The "D-Day Landings" which was during World War II that resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, there were 156000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Mussolini captured and executed
On 28th of April, 1945, Benito Mussolini and his wife Clara Petacchi were shot by Italian partisans as they were trying to escape Switzerland. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, Mussolini did not want to be caught by British or the Americans, and he will as a prisoner for the communist partisans, so he wanted to go to a neutral country, but they were discovered by Petacci, and their death was terrible. -
Hitler commits suicide
For Nazis Germany failure for the war. Adolf Hitler killed himself for having a cyanide capsule and shooting, also his wife Ava died with him with a cyanide capsule, and Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces that end Hitler's Reich dream. -
German forces surrender
In the spring of 1945, the Soviets were approaching the German capital of Berlin from the east and the Western Allies were approaching it from the west. Knowing that defeat was imminent, as Adolf Hitler's death, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarter in Reims, France to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
V.E.day
The United States and Western European countries are scheduled for May 8 each year, and Russia and other Eastern European countries are scheduled for May 9 each year, that all for remembering Nazi Germany officially signed a surrender agreement on 8th of May, 1945 in Berlin. -
Battle of the Bulge
The "Battle of the Bulge" was from 16th of December,1944 to 25th of June, 1945 that German gave the last big offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also it was one of the worst battles of the US military. There were "Operation Bodenplatte" and "Operation Greif" that the goal was for breaking Allied front, occupied Antwerp, and surrounded and tear Allied, and force Allied to negotiate under Axis' favorable conditions. -
Atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
On the day, the United States became the first one also was the only nation to use atomic weaponry which was dropped down to the city of Hiroshima in Japan that also represents the end of the World War II. As the atomic bomb dropped, 80,000 people were killed, and another 35,000 were injured. -
Soviet Union declares war on Japan
On this day, Soviet declared war on Japan, there were more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army. Japan did not really worried about Soviet's declaration, so busy with the Germans on the Eastern front, and they did not think they have to attack Soviet Union until spring 1946. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
This was the second United States attacked Japan for using the Atomic bomb. Three days later of the first time, other bomb dropped on the city of Nagasaki which 40,000 people were killed. In result on forced Japan to surrender -
Japanese surrender - End of WWII
On the day of 2nd of September, Japan surrenders to Allied in the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. People do not really know why Japan surrender, maybe because of the declaration was the result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, -
United Nations is born
The war ended, the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, the United Nations was born of perceived necessity. For a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations.At its founding. The UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.
