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Blitzkrieg, Translated to Lightning war, describes the successful tactics used by Nazi Germany. Why? Because it would be helpful to their limited economic resources. It gave enemy's psychological shock and disorganization to their forces.
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Also known as the Western Campaign, it was the German invasion of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Then France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. leading to the fall of France. With "the Germans had taken more than one million Allied prisoners in the space of three weeks."
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Pearl Harbor was the Surprise attack on us from Japan Troops. They believed that if they neutralized the U.S Pacific Fleet that would open Southeast Asia for conquest. It destroyed nearly 20 American ships and 300 airplanes.
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The Wannsee conference is when the Nazi officials met to discuss the "final solution" also known as the "Jewish Question. It was the plan to move all the Jews to concentration camps. The effects of this would be the death of many people in concentration camps and the metal trauma that stayed with the survivors.
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It was the forcible movement by the Imperial Japanese army. Moving American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga. Their prisioners being forced to march although many dying.
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It was a major battle and a brutal military campaign on the eastern front where Nazi Germany and it's allied nations fought. But, unsuccessfully lost to the soviet union for its city of Stalingrad. it was huge defeat on Germany and its one thats known throughout history.
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It was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy. the Mission was lead by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. "The Allied armies were able to force Axis naval, air and land divisions out of the area and allowed Allied merchant ships into the Mediterranean for the first time since 1941." -
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D-day was when the allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. It "was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning" .as a result Paris was liberated August as the allies pushed slowly eastward. And the day we choose to storm was windy and all nazi planes were grounded.
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Also known as the Ardennes offensive or “the greatest American battle of the war” by Winston Churchill, it was a major German campaign on the western front. It was a surprise battle by Adolf Hitler. and as a result it's marked the last major offensive attempted by the Axis power on the western front.
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Liberated by the Red Army during the Vistula. They went to rescue and free all the Jews. and they ended up saving hundred of people from the constant torture. 2020 actually marked the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of the concentration camps.
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It was a major battle in which the U.S Marines and Navy landed on island Iwo Jima. It was a major military campaign. it was thought that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines.
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Also known by its codename of "Operation iceberg". The last major battle of WW2, It was a major battle on the Pacific front, fought on the island Okinawa. With the U.S Marines and Army fighting, to this day we still have Military bases there.
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The day both Britain and U.S celebrate victory in Europe. People put out flags and banners ecstatic with the defeat of the Nazi's. and People still celebrate it to this day.
[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe#:~:text=On%20May%208%2C%201945%2C%20both,machine%20during%20World%20War%20II.] -
it was the day the U.S bombed both the cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. with the first killing about 80,000 and the second about 40,000 people, most of which were civilians. And with that they still wont plant things like flowers or fruits in the city.
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it was the day the U.S bombed both the cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. with the first killing about 80,000 and the second about 40,000 people, most of which were civilians. And with that they still wont plant things like flowers or fruits in the city.
[https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki] -
VJ day, standing for Victory over Japan day. the day of which Imperial japan surrendered in WW2. With its effects bringing the war to an end.
[https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/v-j-day]