The important events of world war two?

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Answer 1

WHIRLWIND VICTORIES
World War Two began on September 1, 1939 when the German Army, along with Slovakia and the Soviet Union, invaded Poland. They captured Warsaw, the Polish capital, on September 27. The Polish Army offered some resistance, but German blitzkrieg tactics overwhelmed them. Panzer tanks and Stuka dive bombers quickly mowed down Polish infantry and cavalry regiments. However, the Armia Krajowa, known as the Polish Home Army, fought on until the end of the war.

The Axis Powers then attacked neutral Scandinavia on April 8, 1940. Giving little resistance, Allied troops withdrew from the area because of disasters in France (although commandos from the Norwegian underground still fought the Germans).


THE FALL OF FRANCE May 10, 1940
During the 1930s, the French concentrated their military budget on the Maginot Line, a series of fortifications on the border with Germany. Even though they had the most formidable army at the time, the French hoped for a static, defensive war. The Maginot Wall had massive guns pointing towards Germany, but the Germans crossed the Ardennes Forest and the Meuse River and later attacked the wall from behind. Dive bombers offered arial artillery while the panzers stormed the Allied position. The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) and the French troops had to evacuate from the port of Dunkirk. The BEF lost most of its equipment because there weren't enough ships, and most of the French Army had to stay back to defend their homeland.

A collaborationist to the Germans, Philippe Petain ruled the country from Vichy, and his government was known as Vichy France. The remains of the once mighty French Army fought on as the Free French.


BRITAIN STANDS ALONE July, 1940
Under the leadership of Winston Churchill, Great Britain resisted against the Germans. The Germans hoped that after the fall of France, Britain would surrender, but the British were defiant. On July 1940, Hitler launched Operation Eagle, a plan to invade Britain.

After initial skirmishes in the English Channel between land based Luftwaffe aircraft (the Kriegsmarine didn't have large aircraft carriers) and RAF Spitfires, the Germans went on to bomb London. This failed greatly because of the new British invention: radar. Whenever radar stations pick up signs of German aircraft fleets, Supermarine Spitfires took out the escorts and Hurricane fighters shot down the bombers. Churchill called it "their finest hour."

By the end if May, 1941, all German aircraft were withdrawn for the invasion of Russia.


NAVAL WARFARE 1941-1943
I. THE BISMARCK
The super battleship Bismarck was the war's largest warship.
Weighing 41,700 tons, it had 8x380mm, 12x150mm, 6x105mm, 16x37mm, and 20x20mm guns. It also carried 4 aircraft. Commisioned on August 24, 1940, it sunk the pride of the Royal Navy, the HMS Hood. The Bismarck itself was sunk on May 27, 1941.

The battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen were spotted by a British recon craft and were tracked down to an area near Greenland. Bismarck separated from Prince Eugen to head for France. The Royal Navy then gave chase, sending in Swordfish biplanes and weakening the ship. HMS Ark Royal scored a hit and crippled the Bismarck. The battleship, being cornered by the ships Rodney and King George V, was finally sunk by HMS Dorsetshire.

II. BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
After the fall of France, Admiral Karl Donitz operated his Unterseeboots in the Atlantic coast. He used "wolf packs" to sink down Allied shipping. The British replied with using the convoy formation, in which two light cruisers flank a merchant ship and a destroyer defends the ship's fore. The Allies also used sonar to locate German U-boats. The U-boats sank 260,000 tons of Allied shipping, when suddenly the tides turned. Long-range B-24 Liberator bombers and the use of escort carriers--light warships that can provide their own air cover--mounted heavy losses on the U-boats. Sonar and radar proved effective in locating submarines. Also, having captured German Enigma encoding machines, British Intelligence deciphered German radio waves and helped win the Battle of the Atlantic.

III. PEARL HARBOR Dec 7, 1941
Despite the threat of war with Japan, the US base at Pearl Harbor was unprepared for the Japanese attack. Nakajima torpedo bombers skimmed at low altitude, while Aichi dive bombers attacked from above, flying through ack-ack. Despite having lost 2,403 men and 18 ships, the US managed to continue the Pacific war because its aircraft carriers were undamaged.

OPERATION BARBAROSSA June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa was one of the largest military operations in history. It was the plan to invade the Soviet Union. It involved 4 million men, 3,600 tanks, 700,000 horses, and thousands of aircraft. Germany's allies also took part in the invasion. Some 300,000 Romanians, 250,000 Italians, and troops from Finland, Hungary, and Bulgaria fought against the Soviets. While Hitler envisaged victory in 3 months, Barbarossa fell far behind its timetable.

I.MOSCOW
In early October 1941 the Germans launched an attack to capture Moscow. German advance was slow, and Gen. Georgi Zhukov had organized a defensive line in front of Moscow. The Germans didn't have winter equipment, and Soviet reserves attacked from inside the city. Airborne paratroopers also fought behind the German lines. By January the Germans have been driven back to Smolensk.

II. KURSK
Having been informed by a German offensive in Kursk, Zhukov prepared a defensive line with minefields, trenches, antitank guns, and the heavy T-34 tanks. When the Germans reached Kursk, the Soviets launched a preparatory bombardment. Katyusha multiple rockets, known as Stalin Organs, thinned down the Germans. They Soviet air force also strafed Luftwaffe airfields, and dogfights involving thousands of aircraft aroused. Hoth's 4th Panzerarmee got into Soviet defenses, so Soviet reserves were rushed forward. About 800 T-34s clashed with heavier King Tiger and Panther tanks with Ferdinand self-propelled guns. The Germans lost a hundred tanks, and on July 15 Hitler called off the offensive.


EL ALAMEIN Oct 23, 1942
Field Marshall Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, commander of the Afrika Korps, earned the nickname "The Desert Fox" for his desert victories. Churchill called him "a daring and skillful opponent." His fortunes changed, however, in the Battle of El Alamein.

Allied forces under Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery, composed of British, Australian, New Zealand, African, and Free French troops attacked Rommel's formation; however, this was a mistake. Rommel had lines of extensive minefields defended by infantry and antitank guns, with panzers at the rear. Montgomery's plan was to bombard the minefields to clear the way for infantry, and then the armor would follow. Sappers cleared mines and marked taped corridors for the tanks to pass through. As the offensive slowed, Montgomery told his tank commanders to advance through uncleared minefields. This didn't succeed.

On October 27, Rommel tried to launched a counteroffensive, but it didn't work. On November 1, Montgomery attacked again. New Zealanders cleared a way for the Churchill tanks. Germans countered with artillery and mortar fire. Panzergrenadiers attacked from the rear. On November 4 however, Rommel retreared. El Alamein prevented further German advances in North Africa.


D-DAY June 6, 1944
A mass invasion force of eight divisions supported by 6,500 ships and 12,000 aircraft closed in on Normandy on June 6, 1944. American, British, French, Canadian troops in DUKW Amphibious Vehicles landed on the beaches of Normandy
(8 other nations took part in the battle). The 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions jumped behind enemy lines.

After defeats in the Mediterranean, Erwin Rommel was assigned to the Atlantic Wall--a series of fortifications along the Atlantic coast. The German defenses were not complete and the guns were manned by hastily recruited troops. The Germans were taken by surprise when warships opened fire on their bunkers. The Allies have fought their way off the beach, but at a heavy cost.


BATTLE OF THE BULGE Dec 16, 1944
In 1944, the desperate Hitler gambled on a counteroffensive in a last attempt to turn the war around. He intended it as a repitition of what happened in the Fall of France.

German SS panzers achieved complete surprise. Also, the Allies weren't able to use their air forces because of bad weather. US troops slowed German progress, though. When the weather cleared, the RAF and the USAAF hammered German armor. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached Bastogne on December 26. Heavy casualties mounted on both sides, but the Allies could afford the losses and the Germans could not.

On April 30, 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, fascist dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide on his bunker. The world's first operational jet fighgters, the Messerschmitt Me 262s, and the Volksturm were used in the defense of Germany. But after Hitler's death, and with Italy having surrendered 2 years earlier, Germany surrendered on May 2, 1945.


THE PACIFIC WAR 1941-1945
The Japanes Navy was one of the best in the world. They had the largest aircraft carrier, and their Zeros were extremely fast and maneuverable. Their infantry operated on the jungles, and were masterminds of guerilla tactics. After the Battle of Midway, the tides turned.

In the early 1930s, scientists made nations aware of the destructive power of atomic weapons. The US invested $2billion in the Manhattan Project. In August 1945, they finally dropped the world's first atomic bombs, the Fat Man and the Little Boy, on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on Spetember 2, 1945.

Answer 2

Well, earlier today I visited Acropolis of Athens!
The first resistance event happen on the hilly hill. Two students, some night went up there got the Nazi flag down, cut it in two, since they could not move it (it was really heavy. The Nazi never found out, while WWII. Now, one of them has passed into History. The other is still active fighting to protect environment and progress Democracy.
WWII, an empire, Italy, attacked Greece, without previous notice.
Greeks stopped them and after 8 months the Nazis attacked full force against Greece. It took them one month to fight and win against the people of Greece, the soldiers where in other place fighting the Fascists! This delayed them and the winter caught them in Russia, thus how WWII was wan by the allies!

Answer 3

Don't forget Stalingrad.

It was at Stalingrad that the Germans were finally halted. If they had broken through their armor would have been able to swing north behind Moscow and south into the Caucausus oil fields, causing the Soviet Union to collapse. After that, Germany could have turned its full forces west again to take on the Allies, who were still unprepared in 1942-1943.

As it was, the Russians defeated the Germans at Stalingrad in the biggest and bloodiest battle of the war, smashing a hole in the German front. Germany never recovered from Stalingrad.

Answer 4

France is criticized as being an aggressor for wanting to occupy the Rhineland in 1919. Britain ratifies the Act of Guaranty to aid France in case of a threat from Germany with the condition that America does too. American Senate rejects the Act of Guaranty and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.* Germany defaults on reparations in late 1921. Germany borrows all sums for reparations from America. France is called the aggressor for invading the Ruhr in order to collect reparations in January 1923. Dawes Plan reduces reparations by 1/3rd in 1924. The Young Plan in 1929 further reduces reparations. In 1932, French, British, and U.S. cancel all reparations. America pursues disarmament and isolation until May 1940. National Socialism comes to power in March 1933. The Polish-German non-agression pact in 1934. The Anglo-German Naval pact in 1935. The failure of the French and British and Americans to invade the Rhineland in March 1936 and destroy Hitler. The Allied appeasement (mostly British) at Munich in September 1938. The German invasion of Poland in 1939. The German invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France in May 1940. The German invasion of Russia in 1940. The German defeat at El Alamein in 1941. The German defeat at Stalingrad in 1942. The Allied invasion of West Africa in 1942. The Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943. The Allied invasion of France in June 1944.

Answer 5

1939-German invasion of Poland
1940--surrender of most of Europe and Battle of Britain
1941--Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Russia)
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
1942--Battle of Midway/El alamein
1943--Casablanca conference
1944--D-day
1945--May 8 Germanay surrenders
August 6--dropped bomb on Hiroshima
August 8 or9--dropped bomb on Nagasaki
August 15--Japanese surrender

Just a few highlights. Go to google and put World War, 1939-1945 in the search bar and that should give you a timeline.

Answer 6

The Storming of Normandy. VE Day. Bombing of Hiroshima.

Answer 7

Pearl Harbor and D Day

Answer 8

d-day and the atomic bomb were very important. d-day was in normandy and the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima on aug. 6 1945, and nagasaki was bombed on aug 9, 1945

Answer 9

pearl harbor, and the atomic bomb. beginning and end of us involvement

Answer 10

Waht is that smell ?Can you please tell me what that smell is? Oh my god. I'm going to be sick. What the heck is that smell?