July 1940 - September 1940

France and United Kingdom

They survived the invasion because of the air battles that exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Britain-European-history-1940

On July 16, 1945,

In Alamogordo, New Mexico

The code name for the test was ¨

trinity¨

The explosion vaporized all buildings in the area and turned the ground to glass.

https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test/

May 26 and June 4, 1940. 

Dunkirk , France

Allied forces, including British and French troops, were evacuated from beach and Harbor.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Dunkirk-evacuation

1942-1945

The Tuskegee Airmen trained in the Great Lakes after graduation

Nearly 200 planes crashed into the Great Lakes during WW2

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/sitemap.html

Born April 20, 1889

Died April 30, 1945

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the leader of Germany and the Nazi party and blamed for the cause of WW2

Hitler took over most of Europe during this time

He did this to "pure the Germany master race"

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler

Born 6, December 1878

Died 5 March 1953

Commander of the soviet union

helped Hitler capture Europe

Rose top power in 1922

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/people/stalinjoseph

November 8, 1942

Casablanca, Morocco

An operation that landed 107,000 British and U.S. troops at Casablanca, Morocco to Algerian cities.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Operation-Torch

Born June 12,1929

died 1945(exact date unknown)

Anne Frank was a 15 years old Jewish girl during ww2 in Europe

She is famous for writing a dairy while hiding from the Nazis in secret annex in Amsterdam, Netherlands for 2 years

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/

Born April 22, 1904

Died February 18,1967

Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and science administrator

Helped develop the atomic bombs that would later be thrown at japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-Robert-Oppenheimer

December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945

Ardennes, Forest

more then 200,00o german troops and nearly 1,000 tank launchers where there

https://www.army.mil/botb/

September 30, 1928-July 2,2016

Holocaust survivor, author, Noble peace prize winner

Elie was 15 when he was captured by the Nazis and sent away to concentration camp in Poland

He is most famous for his book, Night which desribles his experiences in the Holocauet

TCI Textbook, pages 426-427

December 1937

The Japanese military invaded Nanjing, China. They committed mass killings of as many as 300,000 civilians. Some historians consider this the start of WW2 in Asia

https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/nanjing-massacre

June 6, 1944

Largest amphibious invasion in history

over 156,000 troops from the U.S Brtain, Canada and other nations

allied forces secured a foothold in France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe.

Marked a major turning point in world war II, leading to the defeatof Nazi Germany.

https://www.dday.org/learn/

1950s and 1960s. 

Germany, Europe

killing over six million Jewish men, women, and children

https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust

May 20 to June 1, 1941.

Germany, Creek Island

Failier if the British trying to protect/defend the Creek Island against the German attack.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Crete

from September 30, 1941 to January 7, 1942,

Russia, Moscow

Germany invation was soon about to be in trouble due to atrocious weather conditions, they had to advance their attack.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Moscow

from August 1942 to February 1943

Russia, Volga River, Volgograd, Stanlingrad

The greatest battle that happened in the patriotic war was when it stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad

January 17 to May 18, 1944,

Cassino, Italy

Germany attacked and resulted in destruction of the whole town

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Monte-Cassino

(January 22–June 5, 1944)

Anzio- Italy

Allies with other groups were bypassed by the German defenses and advanced towards Rome.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Anzio

October 23–26, 1944

Philippines,leyle, pacific ocean

War between air and sea battles, The Japanese combined fleet, permitted U.S. invasion of the Philippines

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Leyte-Gulf

February 19–March 16, 1945

Iwo Jima, Japan

A victory won by the United States, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Iwo-Jima

May 12-28, 1942

Moscow, Kharkov

The Soviets saved Moscow but also tried to counterattack the German people, but they ended up suffering over 170,000 deaths.

https://www.hoover.org/research/battles-kharkov

September 3, 1939 - May 8, 1945

Atlantic Ocean

Fighting for control of the Atlantic Ocean, the battle of the Atlantic represented Germany´s best chance to defeat the Western powers.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Atlantic

September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944

St Petersburg, Russia

A brutal blockade on a city hold against the Axis power lasted 872 days.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Leningrad

June 3, 1942 - June 6, 1942

Midway Island-Pacific Ocean

A battle fought with aircraft that United States destroyed Japan´s first-line carrier strength and most trained naval pilots.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Midway

May, 15 1943

Carlsbad, New Mexico

Dr. Lytle S. Adams sent a letter to the White House with the idea of the bat bomb off a airplanes.

The bat bomb somehow got the green light and was handed over to the Army Chemical Warfare Service.

The idea behind the “bat bombs” was that bats armed with timed incendiary devices would be released over a Japanese city.

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

1943

Germany

The Krummlauf was used to shoot around the corners

The Krummlauf was an attachment

There was 2 types of krummlauf first one was a 30-degree bend for shooting around or over obstacles and the other one was a 90-degree bend to shoot from inside a armored vehicle

When the American captured the Krummlauf it would performed poorly, Bullets snapped in half And the barrel itself would snap in half after firing only a few hundred rounds.

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

Spy Gadgets created by the british special Operations executive during ww2

They produced 100 dead rats

They stuffed the rats with plastic explosives and shipped them off to agents in Germany.

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

On September 2, 1945, the Japanese signed the official Instrument of Surrender

The Japanese envoys, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umez, signed their names on the Instrument of Surrender.

On September 6, Col. Bernard Thielen brought the surrender document and a second imperial rescript back to Washington, DC.

On October 1, 1945, they were formally received (accessioned) into the holdings of the National Archves

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/surrender-of-japan#:~:text=On%20September%202%2C%201945%2C%20Japanese,Truman.

The German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west.

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide.

German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/german-forces-surrender-to-the-allies#:~:text=German%20armed%20forces%20surrendered%20unconditionally,London%2C%20Moscow%2C%20and%20Paris.