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Nonaggression Pact
Who? Joseph Stalin Signed a 10 year Nonagression Pact with Hitler.
What? It was an agreement in which nations promised eachother not to attack eachother.
Why? Hitler had promised hime territory. Germany and Soviet Union agreed to divide Poland. They also agreed that USSR would take over Finaland and Baltic countires of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. -
Germany Invades Poland, WW2 Begins
Blitzkrieg= "lightning war", a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast -moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
Who? Germany attacks Poland.
What? Germans were testing the strategy of blitzkrieg.
Why? This event happened becuase it was not discussed in the Non-aggression Pact.
How? Hitler annexed a western half of Poland, which had a large German population. -
Britain evacuates forces from Dunkrik
Who? Britain
What? Great Britain sent out a fleet of about 850 ships across the English Channel to Dunkirk.
Why? Great Britain set out to rescue the army.
How? Britain took Navy ships, yacht,civilian craft, life boats, paddle steamers, motor boats, and fishing boats and they sailed back and forth from Britain to Dunkirk. -
Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill= was a new British prime minister, he declared that his nation would never give in.
Who? Britain vs Nazis
What? Hitler wanted to invade Great Britain
Why? France had surrendered and Great Britain was left alone fighting the Nazis.
How? On May 10, 1941 Hitler decided to stop bombing London and started focusing on the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe -
France Surrenders
Charles de Gaulle= French general, set up a government-n-exile in London
Who? France
What? The resistance of France began to crumble.
Why? France surrendors becuase Germans started taking Paris on June 14, 1940.
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Germany Invades Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa= the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during WW2.
Who?Hitler wants to invade the Soviet Union.
What? On September 8 started to invade Leningrad, he started by destorying warehouses where they store food. Hitler starved more than 2.5 million people.
Why? Hitler wanted to have control of everything since he already had the Balkans.
How? Since Hitler had already gone through Leningrad, he turned to Moscow, he heart of the Soviet Union. -
US Declares War on Japan
Who? US. declares war on Japan.
What?President Roosevelt declared war on Japan becuase their attack in Hawaii.
Why? Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.
How? They ended up fighting. -
Japanese Attack Pearl Harobor
Isoroku Yamamoto= it is Jappan's greatest naval strategist, also called for an attack on the U.S fleet in Hawaii.
Who?Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
What? The US military was expecting an attack but did not know where.
Why? The Japanese thought that Us was going to intervien with the battles and they caught of Japanese supplies.
How? President Roosevelt declared of war on Japan and its Allies. -
Bataan Death March
Who?Japanese against the Allied prisoners.
What? Japanese would put the Allied prisoners through brutal treatment.
Why? The Japanese thought that no one would ever beat them.
How? With the start of 70,00 prisoners who started the Bataan Death March only 54,00 survived -
Battle of Coral Sea
Who? An american fleet with Austrialian supported intercepted a Janese strike.
What?The Japanese strike was heading toward Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Why?Now they had to try a new strategy called Battle of Coral Sea.
How? The huge aircreaft attacked the ships. An it was a victory for the Allies since they had stopped Japans southward advance. -
Battle of Midway
Aircraft Carrier = it is a warship designed with a purpose of spreading out and recovering aircraft.
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Hitler Orders Attack on Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad= in which Nazis and its allies fought for control of the city of Stalingrad against the Soviet Union.
Who? Nazis vs. Soviet Union
What? Now the Nazis controlled 90 percent of the ruined city, Soviets luanched a counterattack on November 1942.
Why? The Soviets were tired of the Germans, they trapped them and cut their supplies.
How? On February 2, 1943 90,000 German troops surrendered to the Soviets. -
Allies Land in North Africa
Operation Torch= was the British and American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign.
Who? British vs Axis
What? The sound of 1,000 guns firing took the Axis by surprise.
Why? In the end, they launched Operation Torch.
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Germans Surrender at Stalingrad
Who? The German troops surrender to the Soviets.
What? By this time the Soviets had launched a counter attack and had left the Germans with no supplies.
Why? The Germans had destoryed some of the Soviets citys in starvation.
How? In Stalingard defense it had cost them over one million of their solidiers. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Who? The Japanese were building a large air base on the Island of Guadalcanal..
What? The Allies had to strike back before it would turn into a Japanese victory.
Why? The battle for control of the Island turned into a savage struggle as both had fresh troop fighting.
How? The japanese lost alot of solidiers and they ended up calling it " Island of death". -
Allies Invade Italy
Who? Allies tryed to invade Italy.
What? The Allied forces captured Sicily.
Why? Becuase they had captured Sicily, King Victor Emmanuel II had Mussolini arrested.
How? The Italians ended up surendering and by this time the Germans had taken control of northern Italy and they put Mussolini back in chrage. -
Normandy Invasion
D-Day= was the invasion of Normandy which was the largest land and sea attack in history.
Who? General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded an attack on the coast of Normandy.
What? Hitler was expecting an attack but he didnt know where it could be.
Why? All the Allies wanted to do, was to liberate France from Hitler.
How? After a month, they had liberated Belgium, France, and Luxemburg. -
Battle Of Leyte Gulf
Kamikazes= Japanese suicide pilots
Who? The Allies were moving in on Japan.
What? The Japanese were ot going to surrender and they created a plot that would out supply the Allies.
Why? Because Japan had attacked them earlier.
How? THe Jpanese destroy American fleet. -
Battle of the Bulge Begins
Who? The Allied forces moved toward Germany through the west, while the Soviets through the east.
What? Hitler was now faced to fight two fronts, but he chose the west front.
Why? Hitler chose to attack the west in hope that the American and British would split up.
How? The Germans now had little choice but to retreat. -
Allies Capture Iwo Jima
After the months of failing American Marins took over Iwo Jima. -
Germany Surrenders
V-E Day= also known as Victory in Europe Day
Who? Germany Surrendered.
What? Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide.
Why? Germany was being trapped from the Allied and the Soviet troops.
How? The United States and the Allied powers celebrated V-E Day. -
Allies Capture Okinawa
Who? The US Marines captured the Japanese.
What? The US Marines Captured the Japanese Isand of Iwo Jima.
Why? To get coser to the Island of Okinawa that wa 350 miles from southern Japan.
How? US troops went in all force to eliminate Japaese existance. -
America Drops Atomis Bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Manhattan Project= research and development of the irst few bombs.
USA dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 70,000-80,000 were killed. -
Japan Surrenders
Japanese finally surrender to General Douglas MacArthur . The ceremony of surrendership took place on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo.
