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Germany invaded Poland (Germany Blitzkrieg)
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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Germany invaded France
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. As the Americans did, one person of the american congress said that it would permanently declare war on the germans. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii -
battle of britain began
At the end of August, the RAF launched a retaliatory air raid against Berlin. Hitler was enraged and ordered the Luftwaffe to shift its attacks from RAF installations to London and other British cities. There would be no German invasion of Britain. The Battle of Britain, however, continued.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii -
lend lease
They did it in hopes of eventually getting money and supplies later in the future. Was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html -
Operation Barbosa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions.Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii -
Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html -
After Hiroshima
The united States did not yet declare war on Japan until the day after Hiroshima, and did not declare war on Germany until the 11th of December. www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html -
Bataan death march
The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march -
Stalingrad
Was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad now Volgograd in the U.S.S.R. during World War II.Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. In January 1943, On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans.https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007745 -
D-Day
Resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.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. ..http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault, 14 German infantry divisions guarded by five panzer divisions-against a mere 80,000 Americans. .The battle raged for three weeks, resulting in a massive loss of American and civilian life. Nazi atrocities abounded, including the murder of 72 American soldiers by SS soldiers in the Ardennes town o.Malmedy.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-b -
Battle of Iwo Jimo
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
Liberation of concentration camps
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Troy Middleton, commanding general of the XVIII Corps, Third US Army, tour the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"). https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131 -
Japan surrendered
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
