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Battle of Valea Albă. Coordinates: 47.0783°N 26.5603°E. Battle of Valea Albă/Războieni/Akdere. Part of the Moldavian-Ottoman Wars. Date. 26 July 1476. Location. Războieni, present-day Romania. Result.
- Battle of the Atlantic: September 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945. World War II's longest continuous campaign takes place, with the Allies striking a naval blockade against Germany and igniting a struggle for control of Atlantic Ocean sea routes.
- Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940. A German invasion around the French coastal town of Dunkirk separates the French and British armies, marooning Allied forces.
- Battle of Britain, July 10 to October 31, 1940. After a nearly four-month air campaign waged over England, Britain's Royal Air Force and Navy respond to heavy bombing attacks from Germany's Luftwaffe air force, including “the Blitz,” in an attempt to destroy the RAF before invading.
- Battle of Crete: May 20 to June 1, 1941. Nazi paratroopers invade the Greek island of Crete, marking history's first mostly airborne attack. Day one of the campaign results in heavy losses for the Germans, but fearing a sea assault, Allied forces soon withdraw and evacuate in defeat.
2 days ago · September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945. Participants: Australia. Axis powers. Czechoslovakia. Free French. Iraq. Poland. United Kingdom. United States. Yugoslavia. Allied powers. (Show more) Major Events: Battle of Crete. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Battle of Saipan.
- What was the cause of World War II?World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on S...
- What countries fought in World War II?The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, an...
- Who were the leaders during World War II?The Allied powers were led by Winston Churchill (United Kingdom); Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union); Charles de Gaulle (France); and Franklin D. Rooseve...
- What were the turning points of World War II?The war in the Pacific turned against Japan during the Battle of Midway (June 3–6, 1942), an American victory that destroyed the Japanese first-lin...
- How did World War II end?The Allied landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, opened a second front in Europe, and Germany’s abortive offensive at the Ardennes in the winter of...
- How many people died during World War II?Estimates of the total number of people killed during World War II have ranged from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000—a significant span, because statistics...
- Clash near the Marco Polo Bridge, close to Beijing, 7 July 1937. The triggering of the full-scale war with China that lasted until 1945 began with an obscure clash involving a Japanese unit on night manoeuvres near the Marco Polo Bridge southwest of Beijing on the night of 7–8 July 1937.
- The German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939. The Second World War began at dawn on Friday 1 September 1939, when Adolf Hitler launched his invasion of Poland.
- Germans launch offensive in the West, 10 May 1940. The German unwillingness to limit their war to the conquest of Poland and to launch meaningful peace talks meant that the Second World War broadened out.
- The Battle of Britain, 25 July, 1940. After France’s surrender in June 1940, Churchill told the British people, “Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war”.
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- 1939. Sept. 1 may be the official start of World War II, but it didn't start in a vacuum. Europe and Asia had been tense for years prior to 1939 because of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in Germany, the Spanish Civil War, the Japanese invasion of China, the German annexation of Austria, and the imprisonment of thousands of Jews in concentration camps.
- 1940. The first full year of the war saw Germany invading its European neighbors: Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, and Romania, and the bombing of Britain lasted for months.
- 1941. The year 1941 was one of escalation around the world. Italy may have been defeated in Greece, but that didn't mean that Germany wouldn't take the country.
- 1942. U.S. troops first arrived in Britain in January 1942. Also that year, Japan captured Singapore, which was Britain's last location in the Pacific, as well as islands such as Borneo and Sumatra.
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...
Battle of Valea Albă. Battle of Valea Albă/Războieni/Akdere. Part of the Moldavian-Ottoman Wars. Date. July 26, 1476. Location. Războieni, present-day Romania. Result. indecisive Ottoman victory.
