The Polish campaign, also known as the Bode War or the German-Polish War, is the starting point of the European theater of World War II and a famous "blitzkrieg" in the history of world wars.
Poland is called "1939 Defence War" or "1939 September Campaign", while Germany is called "Polish Campaign" with the operational code name "White Plan". At the same time, in all countries of the world, this action is collectively referred to as "Germany's Blitzkrieg" Poland ".
The Battle of Poland was 1939. In September, German, Slovak and Soviet troops invaded Poland, which was considered as the beginning of World War II.
A week after the signing of the German-Soviet non-aggression treaty, Germany launched an attack in September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 17, and on October 61kloc-0, Germany and the Soviet Union occupied the whole territory of Poland, and the Polish campaign ended.
2. Dunkirk retreated.
Dunkirk Evacuation (English: Dunkirk Evacuation, French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was a military retreat of British and French allied forces at the beginning of World War II.
1940 On May 25th, after the defense line of the Anglo-French allied forces collapsed under the rapid attack of the German mechanized troops, the British army made the largest military retreat in the port town of Dunkirk near the Belgian border in northeast France.
Although this large-scale evacuation operation, code-named "Generator Plan", enabled Britain and France to use various ships to evacuate a large number of troops, successfully saved a lot of manpower and saved their effective strength for future counterattacks. However, all the heavy equipment of the British Expeditionary Force in France was abandoned on the European continent, which caused serious problems in the ground defense of the British mainland.
The evacuation marked the withdrawal of British troops from the European continent, and the main areas of western Europe except Britain, Switzerland and Spain were occupied by Germany.
3, sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor (English: attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese: attack on Zhu Zhen Bay) refers to the military incident planned by the Japanese government to attack Pearl Harbor, the base of the US Pacific naval fleet, which became the fuse of the Pacific War in World War II.
194165438+On the morning of February 7, the Japanese navy's aircraft carrier and mini submarine suddenly attacked the US Navy's Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the US Army and Navy's airport in Oahu. The Pacific War broke out. The attack eventually involved the United States in World War II, which is also known as Pearl Harbor.
4. Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was an important battle in the Second World War, and it was also a famous battle for the US Navy to win more with less. The Battle of Midway Island was launched on June 4th. 1942. In this battle, the US Navy successfully repelled the Japanese Navy's attack on Midway Atoll, and the Japanese army was defeated in the naval battle. ? [
Midway Island covers an area of only 4.7 square kilometers, and its special geographical location determines the importance of its strategic position. The island is 2800 nautical miles away from San Francisco, USA and Yokohama, Japan, halfway between Asia and North America, hence the name Midway Island.
In addition, it is 35 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor1/KLOC-0. It is an important military base and transportation hub of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean, and also the gateway and outpost of the US military in Hawaii. Once Midway Island falls, Pearl Harbor, the stronghold of the US Pacific Fleet, will also lose its lips and teeth.
In the end, at the cost of losing only one aircraft carrier, York City, the US military sank four major Japanese aircraft carriers, namely Dragonfly, Black Dragon, Chicheng and Kaga, and achieved initial victory in reversing the Pacific War.
5. Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad (Russian: сталинградскаябитва)
The time is from June 28th 1942 to February 2nd 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II, and it was also the turning point of World War II.
Judging from the number of casualties alone, this battle is also the bloodiest battle in modern history. The casualties on both sides are estimated to be around 2 million, and the number of participants in this battle is more than that in other battles in history.
The Battle of Stalingrad was the most serious strategic failure of fascist Germany, which not only ended the offensive posture maintained by the southern German army group since 194 1, but also directly led to the fundamental change in the overall strength comparison between the Soviet Union and Germany.
From a global perspective, the Battle of Stalingrad, together with the simultaneous Battle of Guadalcanal and the Battle of El Alamein, constituted a landmark event of the great turning point in the anti-fascist war at the end of 1942.
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