On September 1, 1939, Adolf
Hitler invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war
on Germany.
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The following information is taken from Lincoln Journal Star.
On September 1, 1939, Adolf
Hitler invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war
on Germany.
In April, 1940, Germany attacked
Denmark and Norway.
On May 10, 1940, Germany
attacked Belgium and Holland and Winston Churchill was designated
prime minister of Britain.
On June 22, 1940, France fell to
Germany and Germany invaded Russia.
On Dec 29, 1940, German air
attacks on London kill 30,000 people.
On Dec 7, 1941, Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the war as a result.
June 6, 1944 ( the
D-day), The Allies began the invasion of France by landing a million
soldiers at Normandy beaches within two weeks. Four thousand ships and
thousands of smaller landing craft carried the American, British, and
Canadian trops from England to France under protection of 11,000 bombers
and fighters.
On August 25, 1944, Paris was
liberated.
On April 1, 1945, the Americans
invaded Okinawa.
On April 30, 1945, Hitler
committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin.
On May 2, 1945, Berlin fell in
the hands of the Russians.
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed
and unconditional surrender.
On July 16, 1945, the first
atomic bomb was detonated in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
On August 6, 1945, the Americans
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
On August 9, 1945, the Americans
dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
On August 14, 1945, Japan
surrendered and the war ended.