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Lightning Attack
Germany’s Lightning Attack, Joseph Stalin and Hitler signed the non agression pact. After doing that Hitler quickly moved to Poland and was attacked there. -
War Decleared
War on Germany was decleared by France and Britain. Poland had some time before they could make any military response. -
Paris, France
Germans began to get into France and took over Paris, France. The french surrendered and Germany took contorol of northern france and Marshal Philippe Petain a french hero from WW1 of the southern part of France.
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It is the bounden [obligatory] duty of all Frenchmen who still bear arms to continue the struggle. For them to lay down their arms, to evacuate any position of military importance, or agree to hand over any part of French territory, however small, to enemy control would -
Getting into Africa
Mussolini gets in to North Africa wanting to reach the oil fields. The battle of Britain was going on at the same time. -
Libya
The british forces retreated to Tobruck, Libya and Rommel’s Afrika korps attack. Also during this time the Under the Lend-Lease act passed. -
Operation Barbossa
Hitler starts his plan to invade the Soviet Union which was known as Operation Barbossa. The Germans got 500 miles inside the Soviet Union. The Soviets had one of the best militaries but their troops were not prepeared for this so they used the scorched-earth strategy to keep them out. -
Japanese Codes
The US finds Japanese codes and Roosevelt cuts off a oil shipments to japan after discovering. Apart from this Japan followed what they had planed attacking the European colonial powers and the USA by surprise. -
Day of Infamy
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawwaii. The US military knew of an attack from a code of a Japanese message but they did know when or where it would be. Then the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in Hawwaii. The Japanese damaged 19 ships, about 2,300 Americans were killed and over 1,100 were wounded.
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Final Solution
Gas Chambers Primary Source
The Final Solution was the plan to get rid of Jews through genocide that the Nazi Germans made. Extermination camps and gas chambers were made by the Nazis and could kill as many as 6,00 people in a day.This was agreed on the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. -
End of Battle
The Guadalcanal and Tulagi battle ended after the Japanese lost about 24,00 of 26,00 soldiers. -
Tokyo Bombing
Tokyo and other Japanese cities get bombed by the command of Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle but did not cause a lot of damaged. -
Battle of Midway (June 4-7)
American forces where hidden in the horizon and Nimitz started the battle geting the Japanese in the island starting their assault. Americans destroyed many Japanese planes, aircraft carriers and a ship. Yamamoto ordered a withdrawal by June 7. -
Guadalcanal and Tulagi
August 7 US marines and some Australians landed on Guadalcanal and the island of Tulagi. They started an air and land battle.
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Hell was red furry spiders as big as your fist, . . . enormous rats and bats everywhere, and rivers with waiting crocodiles. Hell was the sour, foul smell of the squishy jungle, humidity that rotted a body within hours. . . . Hell was an enemy . . . so fanatic that it used its own dead as booby traps.
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D-Day Invasion
British, American, Canadian and French get their way into Normandy’s beach. The germans were very well prepared and more than 2,700 American men died that day. -
The battle of the Bulge
German tanks broke American defense into the front of the Ardennes. -
Battle of Okinawa
A battle that lastet 82 known as the Battle of Okinawa.
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Surrender
General Eisenhower from German military finally surrendered and Roosevelt wasn't alive to see their victory. -
Hiroshima
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The United States drops an atomic bomb in Hiroshima an estimate of 70,000 and 80,000 people died. -
Nagasaki
Another atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. It killed more than 70,000 people in that instant and then thousands of more died because of the radiation. -
Japan Surrenders
The Japanese surrendered to General Douglas MacArtur. This took alot of time because Japan was undefeatable.
