Ww2
September 1,1939: German invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 German troops invaded Poland on three fronts; East Prussia in the north, Germany in the west and Slovakia in the south. Germany had 2600 tanks against the Polish 180, and over 2000 aircraft against the Polish 420. Their "Blitzkrieg," tactics of war first caught the Poles off guard. German armored columns burst through war saw which wan bombed on September 25, 1939. With in a few days western Poland became a Reich Protectorate. Finally on September 17, 1939 Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, and by the end of the month Poland had been partitioned between Germany and the USSR.
The invasion of Poland is significant in World War two since it started the big war, which engulfed every country in the world, took millions of lives, and caused loss of immeasurable wealth. If Germany had not invaded Poland, the Soviet Union wouldn't have ventured into the war, and it wouldn't have started the chain of military expansion.
June 10, 1940: Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain began in the air on June 10, 1940, with attacks on costal ports and shipping. The German strategy was to bring the royal air force to battle over the English channel, when this did not work, Luftwaffe attacks moved inland to eliminate British fighter bases protecting the coast. But, the eight gun hurricane and spit fire fighters proved too much for the Messerschmidts and Stukas of Germany. The German bombers operating of a maximum range were often left with out fighter escort over targets, which made them vulnerable to the British fighters. One more disadvantage, the German had, was that the British had a chain of radar stations along the coast which gave them reasonable warnings of any enemy raids and even gave time to pilots for addition rest. Even so, it was a close battle with both air fleets losing
approximately the same number of machines, but...
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