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Rescue of Dunkirk
Dunkirk evacuation, (1940) in World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation -
Pearl Harbor
Japan suprise bombs pearl harbor and destroyed lots of american resource. Thousands of american soldiers are trapped in the sinking -
Concentration Camps
Dachau, ,Buchenwald, Auschwitz were all German concentration/killing camps where they would torture jews and kill them and leave the bodies lying around without even being buried -
Munich Agreement
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
was a program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores and buildings were smashed -
Germany Invade poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland
“blitzkrieg” strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. -
Germany invading Russia
having captured territory in much of present-day Ukraine and Belarus in the spring on 1942 – German Wehrmacht forces decided to mount an offensive on southern Russia in the summer of that year.Under the leadership of ruthless head of state Joseph Stalin, Russian forces had already successfully rebuffed a German attack on the western part of the country -
The fall of France
German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. In the six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and invaded France over the Alps. -
The Blitz
bombing campaign conducted by the Germans against London and other cities in England targeting populated areas. The raids killed 43,000 civilians and lasted for eight months. -
Battle of Britian
The German Luftwaffe (Airforce) would attack the Royal Air Force. The UK used radar to figure out where the Germans would attack from.. The Germans bombed everything they could, but ultimately radar saved the UK from falling to Germany. -
Battle of Coral Sea
the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea. Although both sides suffered damages to their carriers, the battle left the Japanese without enough planes, resulting in a strategic Allied victory. -
Battle of midway
The United States Navy defeated an Japanese attack against Midway, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theater. -
Holocaust
Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in gassing facilities, over 6 million Jews killed. -
Battle Guadalcanal
was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. -
Operation Overlord
Winston Churchill said that Operation Overlord was 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult' ever undertaken. With nearly three million troops involved, it was an incredible feat of organisation - and the first step towards the liberation of Western Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany. -
D-Day (Battle of Normandy)
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. -
Invasion of Okinawa
the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On April 1, 1945—Easter Sunday—the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan. The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. -
Germany Surrenders
The flags of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China fluttered above the deck of the Missouri. Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu signed on behalf of the Japanese government and General Umezu signed for the Japanese armed forces. -
Atomic Bomb drop on Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.
