timeline_list_2_headline: World War II Begins; timeline_list_2_description: Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

World War II timeline from Okinawa to Japan's formal surrender. The Free Press Aug 1, 2021 Aug 1, 2021 • June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa — the last and biggest of the Pacific island ...

In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt convinces a largely isolationist Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the U.S. to sell or lend war materials to "any country whose defense the ...

American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of German-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 in World War II. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops ...

World War II was a worldwide conflict that took place from 1939 to 1945, ... provided a timeline of events that led to the World War II Battle of Midway. Video Clip: The Battle of Iwo Jima (8:06) ...

World War II in the Philippines: A timeline. 1 / 13. Rather than risk the lives of thousands in fighting, Manila was declared an “open city” during World War II, ...

Italy's history as an Axis power during World War II under Fascist Benito Mussolini is well-known. But a story less told is the Italian government's impact on its citizens—Jews in particular.

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented, using the largest-ever armada to punch a hole in Adolf Hitler’s defenses and change the course of World War II.

Dec. 22, 1941: About 43,000 Japanese troops begin the main invasion of Luzon; American and Filipino troops begin to amass on Bataan March 4, 1945: Manila officially liberated, but the city is ...