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Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. The pact was signed by representatives of Nazi Germany(Adolf Hitler), Fascist Italy(foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano), and Imperial JapanJapanese ambassador to germany Saburo Kurusu). These three nations agreed that for the next ten years they would "stand by and co-operate with one another...to promote the mutual posterity and welfare of the peoples concerend". -
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the death center where the largest number of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing , ill prisoners were murdered. It was a mass murder and became a daily routine. about three million people were eventually killed through gassing, starvation, diseases, shooting, and burning. every nine out of ten were Jews. Others were Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a gathering of senior officials of the Nazi German regime. This conference was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The conference was held in order to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for varioius policies relating to Jewish people. Reinhard Heydrich was appointed to be a chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish Question". A plan was presented that put in place projects that Jews, fit for labor, could do and eventually die from. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway was the most important battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of Coral Sea, the US Navy defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting great damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a decisive and major battle of the war. Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (it is now known as "Volgograd") in the southwestern Soviet Union. It is one of the bloodiest battles in the the history of warfare. Casualties reached nearly two million. -
Tehran Conference
the Tehran Conference was a meeting about strategy held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. The location was Tehran, Iran, and was the first of the WWII conferences held between all of the "Big Three" . The main outcome of this conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany be the Western Allies. It also addressed relations between the Allies and Turkey and Iran, and operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan. -
D-Day
During D-day, Mass landing on Normandy beaches by British, American, and Commonwealth forced appeared. Thousands of people were killed and wounded that day, but a foodhold was secured in Europe to force the Third Reich ten months later. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offense launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region og Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the western Front towards the end of World War II. The name "bulge" was given because of the line bulge inward on the wartime news maps, which were reported in the contemporary press as the Battle of the Bulge. The battle included the German drive and the American effort to contain and later defeat it. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, home of Prince Wilhem Hohenzollern, in Potsdam. The Soviet Union, the UK, and the US came together. They gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi German. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treatie issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
VJ-Day
VJ-day was a day in which Japan surrendered, effectively ending WWII, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. A formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. The official name in Japan, "The Day for mourning the war dead and praying for peace", was adopted in 1982 by an ordinance issued by the Japanese government.
