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Wannsee Conference
This was a meeting that was disscused about attacking poland.
They had this meeting to decide if they wanted to exterminate the jews or not.
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Nazis take the sudetenland 1938
Hitler takes over the sudetenland because he knows that there are Germans in the Sedetenland and if he takes it over he would have enough power to take over the Sudetenland.
The Sudetenland contained 3.5 million Germans who had been cut off the rest of Germany.
The loss of the Sudetenland was strongly opposed by the Czuchoslovak goverment as the reigon contained a vast array of natural resources, as well as a significant amount of the nations industry and banks. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov pact
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact, Which Guaranteed that the 2 countries would not attack each other.
In 1939, Hitler was preparing for war. Though he was hoping to acquire Poland Without force, Hitler was planning against the possibility of a 2 front war.
Nonaggression pact between Germany and the soviet union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of WW2 and which divided eastern europe into German & S.U -
Germany's invasion of Poland
At 4:45a.m., some of 1.5 million german troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile border with German- Controlled territory.
Hitler wanted more land especially in the east to expand Germany.
it caused everyone ti join in and start WW1 -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was a certain war plan that could wipe out bases and towns by using Tanks, plans, and artillery along a narrow front.
it was the best tactical plan and the fastest way to clear an emeny site.
Germany was able to set up a Fascist Government in europe. -
Battle of Britain
The battle of Britain was a battle that was mostly fought in the air between the Germans and Britain in july 1940 to may 1941.
The battle happend because Germany still had one more major enemy left that they wanted to take out.
THe british ended up wining becasue the germans couldn't take their tanks over to british so they had lost. -
pearl harbor
The japanese put a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in hawaii.
They thought that the U.S. was a threat and we were goin to foil their plans to attack on indochina so they planned a surprise attack.
It casued WW3 -
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
The Germans and Soviet union had a huge war full of artillery the invasion had about 3,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery pieces,and 2,500 aircraft it was in effect the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history.
Hitler knew he had to invade russia eventually so he sent all the ground forces he had sitting around to invade the Soviet Union.
The Germans ended up Following the Soviet Union in the cold times of the year followed them back and which caused the U.S.Britain and france attack -
D-day
Allies landed in northern france opening the long-awaited ''2nd front'' against Hitlers army to drive them out of France.
it happend because france wanted Germany out of france.
The germans were removed from france. -
battle of the bulge
From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II. While Allied forces ultimately triumphed, it was an absolutely vicious six weeks of fighting, with tens of thousands dead on both sides.
The allies knew that germany would be weakest at this time.
It caused millions of soldiers to die. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Concentration camps were camps that jews were in when the Nazi's took them from their homes and country.
Hitler established the camps because he needed somewhere to put the jews and he wanted them all to be exucuted .
The camps caused jews to be separated from their families and over 1 million jews to be killed. -
VE day
VE day was the day to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.
It caused hitler to stop attacking europe.