Main Events

Some of the Main Events from WWII

Battle of Midway

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan went over Southeast Asia, East Indies, and the Philippines.

The war on the pacific was in sea, land and in air. The war in the Pacific came in June 1942 at the Battle of Midway. The U.S. destroyed many Japanese planes and took control in the Pacific.

Germany Invades Poland

Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany. After Germany conquered Poland, they attacked France and it fell in June 1940. Germany conquered most of Europe and North Africa, but only Britain was not defeated.

Battle of Stalingrad

In June 22, 1941, million of troops were sent over the Russian border. In less than a month half million of Russians were killed, or captured.

The Germans advanced into Russia. (Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad)

Germans were miles away from home, and their railroads did not work.

The next spring 1943, a German offensive was launched around Stalingrad.

It was a nine-month battle that created that the German Sixth Army in Russia was almost destroyed and it was the beginning of the end of Germany.

D-Day

On June 6, 1944, The Allied troops fought their way through France, Germany and Belgium. On May 7, 1945 Germany surrendered.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Japanese continued fighting after the war in Europe ended, Truman decided to use an atomic bomb to end with the war quickly. They dropped the bomb in Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, killing lots of people. On August 9, the second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki.

The Holocaust

The holocaust was the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Nazis believed that Germans were superior and the Jews were inferior. During this time the Nazis also killed other groups because of their inferiority: Roma Gypsies, handicapped, and Slavic people.

In 1945 almost every European Jew had been killed as part of the Final Solution.