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Non-Aggression Pact
Joseph Stalin signed a ten-year pact with itler. After being exclded from the Munich Conference, Stalin was not eager join with the West. This gave Germany an Ally -
Hitler Invades Poland
German tanks and troop trucks moved across the polish Border. At the same time Artillery and german aircraft, bomed the capital of Poland. The invasion of Poland was the first test of Germanys newest military strat. Blitzkrieg, It involved useing fast weapons and then hitting them with a large force -
SU vs. Finland
Stalin moved in to take part of Poland, and almost succeed except for Finland. The Soviets were expecting a swift fight with Finland, but was not expecting the cold winter. Finland was taken finnaly but not after a huge loss for Russia due to the poor conditions. -
Dunkirk
The Germans trapped the Allied forces around the northern French city of Lille. The Allies retreated to the beaches of Dunkirk The britsh then sent out a small armada of ships to resuce the Soldiers. -
Paris Falls
Germans had taken Paris and the French leaders surrendered . Germans took control of northern part of the Country. After France Fell, Charles De Gaulle organized a French government who fought the Nazis till France was liberated. -
Luftwaffe attacks Great Britain
Winston Churhhill declared that Britian would not fall under the attacks from Germany. The Luftwaffe, germans airforce, began attacking Britans citys, and Bases. -
Battle of Britan
It was the Battle between Britain, and Germany over the master of the airways. germany wanted to take out Britans airforce so they could more easily invade. -
Rommel in North Africa
Rommel was a highly decorated soldier , and general in World War 2. He fought for germany , and was nicknamed the Desert fox when he took over Africa. He was very respectable on both sides. -
Atlantic Charter
defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; free access to raw materials; reduction of trade restrictions; -
Siege of Leningrad
A prolonged blockade, and battle where the soviets tired to break through into St. Petersburg.- -
March on Moscow
It was the path the Germans used to move towards Moscow, to take it for Nazi Germany. The soviets fought back hard, and strong though -
Pearl Harbor
was the Japaneese attack on the U.S. the attack took place in pearl Harbor in hawaii and the japaneese used the tactis of kakakizes witch were suicidla dive bomb planes. -
Japanese victories in the Pacific
Lightlly defended, Guam and Wake island. quickely fell to Japanese. Japanese had many victories in the pacific but this did not last long. -
Doolittle Raid
was the first cointer attack made from the american side. It was to lower the Japaneese morale, and raise the Americans. Which it did, it was all done by useing bombers -
Battle of the Coral Sea
naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other -
El Alamein
It was a battle in Egypt between Germany, and Itatly and the African government. it was mostly a stale mate between the to, and the purpose of the battle was to kee[ the germans out of Egypt. -
Guadalcanal
Another battle between the Americans, and the Japaneese. It was a battle over a pieace of land. One was an aircraft base for the U.S, and the other was the send supplies to the Japaneese. -
Bataan Death March
was the transfering of american soldiers, and civilains from the battle of Bataan. The Japaneese took these prisoners of war on a long deadly March that ened ip killing thousands. -
midway
One of the most important battles of the pacific. It was an attepmt of the Japaneese to create a trap for the americans, There trap was unsuccessful, and the Aermicans won. -
Stalingrad
This was a small turning point in the war. Germany was attacking the soviet Union in one of the most bloodest battles ever. From the major German loss, Germany lost its major tactical advatange. -
Invasion of Italy
It was the Allies Invadeing Itatly. The Allies landed on a strip of land and made there way to the Capital of Itatly, and took it. -
Hitler and Eva Commit Suicide
With Germany quickly looseing and the American troops moveing swiftly through the fronts, Hitler asked his wife Eva to commit Suicide, and his also took his own life -
D-Day
This has been recorded as the largest scale of a frontal attack ever in history. Under the command of Dqight D Esienhower. The U.S launched a massive scale attack on the cost of Normady. German tanks break through the Allies and push them back. The war with germany is coming to a close. -
Battle of the Bulge
the Allies advanced toward Germany more quickly than anticipated.[i] Troops were fatigued by weeks of continuous combat, Allied supply lines were stretched extremely thin and supplies were dangerously depleted. While the supply situation improved in October, the manpower situation was still critical. General Eisenhower (the Supreme Allied Commander) and his staff chose the Ardennes region, held by the First United States Army, -
Leyte Gulf
between combined US and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. -
Iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb
The Atomic Bomb is the most powerful weapon to date for Mankind. It was used on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki by the United States as a last resort. The bombs killed millions of people, and is still killing people today. This was a sign the war was over.
