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The First Atomic Bomb ever made was created during WW2 by the Americans and was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb in a matter of seconds wiped out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people. Three days later, another Atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing another 40,000. The Battle of the Bulge is the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops to date, with more than 80,000 American deaths

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Interesting facts about the Battle of Britain

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Interesting facts about the Battle of Britain

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Great Britain's air force was called the RAF or the Royal Air Force. Germany's air force was called the Luftwaffe. The code name for Hitler's invasion plans was Operation Sea Lion. It is estimated that around 1,000 British planes were shot down during the battle, while over 1,800 German planes were destroyed. The main types of fighter planes used in the battle were the Messerschmitt Bf109 and the Bf110 by the German Luftwaffe and Hurricane Mk and Spitfire Mk by the Royal Air Force.The leader of the German Luftwaffe was Herman Goering. The leader of the Royal Air Force was Sir Hugh Dowding. Germany continued to bomb London at night until May of 1941. This series of bombings was called the Blitz. At one point London was bombed for 57 nights in a row.Hitler finally stopped bombing London because he needed his bombers to invade Russia.

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The Battle of Britain was an important battle in World War II. After Germany and Hitler had conquered most of Europe, including France, the only major country left to fight them was Great Britain. Germany wanted to invade Great Britain, but first they needed to destroy Great Britain's Royal Air Force. The Battle of Britain was when Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion. The Battle of Britain started on July 10th, 1940. It lasted many months as the Germans continued to bomb Britain.

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World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945.

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World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. It cost more money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust.The War became a global conflict after the German military, led by Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland in 1939 because he wanted to take some of their land for Germany. France and the UK declared war on Germany because they didn’t think what Germany was doing was right, then Italy joined with Germany, and gradually other countries in Europe and around the world became involved with either the Allies or the Axis powers.

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The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.

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Between 27 May and 4 June 1940, 338,000 British and French troops were evacuated to Britain from the beaches of Dunkirk in France. In order to bring soldiers off the beaches the British appealed for owners of small boats to sail to France.

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In 1940, the French port of Dunkirk
was the location of a big turning point for the Allies in World War II. Hitler’s armies bombed Dunkirk heavily, and many Allied troops were waiting on the beach to be rescued because they didn’t have the resources they needed to fight back. From 26 May to 4 June, over 550,000 troops were ferried to safety across the English Channel – the code name for this was ‘Operation Dynamo’. Some British civilians (people who weren’t in the army) even used their own boats to help save as many people as they could. The rescue operation helped to boost morale in Britain, where they really needed some good news. This helped in going into the next major event in World War II, the Battle of Britain.

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The major Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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Hitler and the Nazis took control of the Germany government in 1933. That same year, they opened a concentration camp, meaning a giant prison, for political prisoners. ... In September 1939, Hitler went a step further, invading Poland, which caused Britain and France to declare war, officially starting the conflict. 🤬 Germany engaged in a rapid process of rearmament through the 1930s.

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In World War 2 our main allies and forces came from: United Kingdom, United States Of America, Russia.