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campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria

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was the public holiday celebrated on 8 may 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the allie powers

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nonagression pact with Poland in January 1934, this was not popular to hitlers followers, he did this in order to neutralize the possibility of a french-polish military alliance

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The Normandy landings (d-day) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close

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On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.

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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.

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The Battle of Okinawa was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The 82-day battle lasted from April 1 until June 22, 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations for the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.

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The Battle of Iwo Jima 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf  is considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II

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The Battle of Stalingrad  was a war of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad

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On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own,

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On 15 March 1942, Japan's Imperial General Headquarters decided to sever Australia's lifeline to the United States by seizing and fortifying the southern Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and Port Moresby on the southern coast of the Australian Territory of Papua. The purpose behind the Japanese plan was to place a steel noose around Australia and then apply pressure to compel Australia to surrender to Japan.The first Japanese targets would be Port Moresby and the island of Tulagi in the British Solomon Islands.

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U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March.

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At 7:55 AM in Hawaii, Japanese dive bombers bearing the red symbol Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. They descended on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. It was a critical blow to the US naval base. A total of 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,200 were wounded, many while valiantly attempting to repulse the attack.

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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria

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the battle is usually known as the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident".[5] The Marco Polo Bridge is an eleven-arch granite bridge, an architecturally significant structure first erected under the Jin and later restored by the Kangxi Emperor in 1698. It gained its Western name from its appearance in Marco Polo's record of his travels