German forces bombarded Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War ll had begun. It was madness and terror from the start of World War ll and the end.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941
On this day Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed it to be a date lives in "infamy". On this date Japanese flew in planes to bomb the US Navel Base at Pearl Harbor. These bombings last 2 hours and killed more than 2,300 people.
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet Union successfully defended the city of stalingrad during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.
Battle of Midway
June 4th 1942 - June 7th 1942
World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
June 6th 1944 - June 30th 1944
Code named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 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 United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement.
May 8th, 1945
Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, ending World War II in Europe.