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Shoah
Also know as the holocaust. was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories -
Germany invades Poland
germany invaded poland and used the battle strategy know as "Blitzkrieg". the Heer(army) had some 2,400 tanks organized into six panzer divisions, and tehy had foot soldiers. The Luftwaffe (air force) provided both tactical and strategic air power, particularly dive bombers that disrupted lines of supply and communications -
Pearl Harbor
A lagoon harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu: location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7th, 1941. the japenese had Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers -
Japanese Internemnt camps
War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. this happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Theater of War
Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and Japan. It was defined by the Allied powers' Pacific Ocean Area command, which included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, while mainland Asia was excluded, as were the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Australia, most of the Territory of New Guinea and the western part of the Solomon Islands. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overload is the code name for the battle of Normandy. the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels -
Fat man & Little boy
2 bombs were dropped in japan. One named Fat Man that was dropped in Hiroshima on august 6th, 1945 and little boy that was dropped in Nagasaki on august 9th, 1945. -
United Nations
established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. there are 193 United Nations member states -
Nuremberg trials
were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg. -
Zionism
the national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. the creation of Israel was in 1948