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Há 18 horas · The war in the west, September 1939–June 1940. The invasion of Norway; The invasion of the Low Countries and France; The evacuation from Dunkirk; Italy’s entry into the war and the French Armistice; The Battle of Britain; Central Europe and the Balkans, 1940–41; Other fronts, 1940–41. Egypt and Cyrenaica, 1940–summer 1941; East Africa
- 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...
- The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, an...
- The Allied powers were led by Winston Churchill (United Kingdom); Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union); Charles de Gaulle (France); and Franklin D. Rooseve...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Há 5 dias · Dunkirk evacuation (May 26–June 4, 1940), in World War II, the evacuation of about 198,000 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and 140,000 French and Belgian troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the operation.
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Há 2 dias · World War II [b] 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 ...
Há 3 dias · First phase. Second phase. Final attacks. Aftermath. Legacy, propaganda and memory. Tables. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
- 7 September 1940 – 11 May 1941, (8 months, 5 days)
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Há 5 dias · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by writer George Orwell.
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Há 1 dia · 1940: John Randall and Harry Boot would develop the high power, microwave generating, cavity magnetron, later applied to commercial Radar and Microwave oven appliances. 1941: Polyester is invented by John Rex Whinfield and James Dickson. 1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range ballistic missile, developed by engineer ...
Há 2 dias · An Almost Warless Timeline of the 1940s Quiz. The first half of the 1940s was indelibly marked by the turmoil and bloodshed of WWII. However, this quiz will concentrate on some events not directly related to the war that also happened during that momentous decade. An ordering quiz by LadyNym . Estimated time: 3 mins. Home. » Quizzes. »
