Germany victories

1939/40

The plan to invasion Poland is a German success, the low Polish resistance surprises everyone. This success is mainly due to the tactics of war lightning. At first, they bombard the enemy with artillery and aviation, then overflow lines and are surrounded by armored vehicles and mechanized forces, infantry finally clean the field. Days later, as had been agreed, the Soviet attacks and invades the eastern half of Poland. France and Britain did not attack the border. The Russo-Finnish war becomes a humiliation for the Red Army, the small Finnish army resists and fights back, eventually overwhelming material superiority of the Russians decide their victory. In April peace sign, Finland lost territories but retains independence. That month, the Germans to the Allied plan of occupation of Norway are ahead and the German army invaded the country and Denmark. In May war just joking on the Western Front when Germany attacks the Netherlands, Belgium and France, it is the yellow plan. The French army is defeated in little over a month. The French failed to distribute its forces. When everything was decided, Mussolini's Italy entered the war alongside Germany, but in a disastrous campaign the Italian army was arrested by French border forces of the Alps. The French defeat marks the end of the Third Republic and the appearance Vichí collaborationist regime led by General Petain. In 1940 Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. Zones of influence spread and commit defend each other in case of external, unless they try to attack the USSR or countries already at war. Italy acts on its own and in October to invade Greece. The Greeks not only resist but fight back. Besides the Italian fleet is defeated by the British in Taranto, so that London controls communications in the Mediterranean thanks to their bases in Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria.

1941/42

The German invasion of Russia (Full documentary)

Germany helps to Italy in their fight against the British in North Africa and sent to Libya to Africa Korps. The British expelled the Italians in East Africa. In April the German army intervened in the Balkans to end the Greek resistance and prevent the British from entering that area. Supported by Italians, Hungarians, Romanians and Bulgarians, the Wehrmacht invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. In May, they occupied Crete. Iraq is invaded when you try to ally with Germany. Additionally forces in June Free France controlled Syria and Lebanon and in August the Allies invade Iran. In 1941 he began Operation Barbarossa, the military campaign largest in history. Germany attacked the Soviet Union, three million men against so many Russian soldiers. The surprise effect is total and Russian prisoners the hundreds of thousands. This winter will be one of the coldest of the century. It will wreak havoc in the German ranks, whose high command had won the war before winter.

In 1941 the Japanese attacked the American naval base Pearl Harbour (Hawaii) from their carriers. This is Japan's response to the oil embargo which the United States was putting him since last July. The Americans demanded that the Japanese leave China and Indochina to remove the embargo, the Japanese militarist government. He decided to solve this problem with a surprise attack. Thus it had neutralizing the American threat and then invade South Asia and access Indonesian oil wells, is called coup de saber to the Japanese advance sur. He will be slowed by the Americans with the battles of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway.

From July to November 1942, after several months of little military activity, German Blue made his operation, the plan of attack from the south to occupy fields. Caucasian oil and take Stalingrad. If so far everything had been successes for the Allies to Germany to the axis, hereinafter all being setbacks and a slow but inexorable advance of the Allies on all fronts.