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Siege of North Africa
when Italy invaded Ethiopia from its colony Italian Somaliland. Benito Mussolini wants to return Italy to its rightful place of ancient Rome as an Empire. -
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia
Ethiopia at the time was ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1932. Ethiopia had valuable exports and at the time they were also forming an army with the help of many European powers. -
Spanish Civil War.
Germany & Italy got to try out weapons an tactics for the 4th coming world war. Spain was divided into two. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Formed
Northern Africa & Ethiopia were using each other for their own benefit. Hitler and Mussolini became good friends and they supported one another in their leadership and goals. -
Annexing of Austria
Germany annexed Austria simply because Hitler believed in a united country of German speaking people. Hilter's conquest began in Europe. -
Mussolini
Was the fascist prime minister of Italy, with dictatorial powers, from 1922 until he was overthrown in 1943.In May 1938, Mussolini promised to fight alongside Adolf Hitler in any war against the democracies of the world. -
Hitler
He managed to convince an entire nation that his way of thinking was the right way and in the process almost succeeded in eliminating the entire Jewish population without the rest of the world even having a hint at what was happening. It wasn't until the war was over that the concentration camps were discovered. -
Nazi- Solviet Nonagression Pact
Is a pact between Germany & the Soviet Union. It was important because Britain and France had been trying to arrange a pact with the Soviet Union but it didn't work for them . -
Poland Attacked
The German invasion of Poland was simply the point that the English and French had decided that they could no longer watch while Germany expanded at their expense. -
Stalin
Was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
HItler invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated ina couple weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border. -
Battle of Britain
The actual battle pretty much lasted from the occupation of Germany until D-Day, although by D-day you could say it had ended as Germnay had lost any hope of air supremecy. -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II in 1941.Over 4.5 million troops of the enemy invaded the Russia along a 1,800 mi front, the largest in the history of warfare. -
Siege of Leningrad
Was a failed operation by german. It was one of the longest and most destructive battles in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties. -
Pearl Harbor
It position was strategically important because it cut the distances from the Philippines, Japan and the rest of the Pacific Island groups by thousands of miles from the west coast of the US, either by air or sea -
Battle of El Alamein (First Battle)
Was a battle fought between Germany and Italy against great britain. The battle stopped the advance by the Axis forces into Egypt, El Alamein. -
Battle of Midway.
Was a turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans -
Battle of Stalingrad
General Paulus surrendered what remained of his army-some 91,000 men. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler, who had elevated the battle's importance in German opinion. -
Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk took place when German and Russian forces attacked each other on the Eastern Front in the city of Kursk in the Soviet Union. It remains both the largest series of armored clashes, and the costliest single day of air attacks in history. It was the final offensive the Germans were able to do in the east. -
D-Day
This was the beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe. It began with the landing at Normandy, France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the invasion saw the largest amphibious assault in history in an effort to gain a toehold in Nazi-occupied France. -
Tojo
He played a key role in opening hostilities against China. Prime Minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbour took place plunging the Far East into a war. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II. It was fought in waters near the Philippines between combined US and Australian forces and Japan. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist. An attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium -
Battle of Okinawa
was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The amaericans planned to use this island to attack the mainland of japan. -
Death of Roosevelt
His death marked a critical turning point in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, as his successor, Harry S. Truman, decided to take a tougher stance with the Russians. -
V-E Day.
V-E stands for Victory for Europe. It marks the end of WWII -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, -
Bomb Dropping on Nagasaki
Plutonium implosion-type bomb. World's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. -
V-J Day.
It stands for Victory over Japan., News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
