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The Fall of Germany
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Battle of Berlin
After many large victories in the east, Russia surged west capturing tons of land with little resistance, and eventually captured Berlin -
Battle of the Bulge
Major offensive push by the germans that was defeated by the Americans, crippling the German front -
Auschwitz liberation
Was first built to hold Polish political prisoners -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt decided to split germany into 4 groups
allowed for free elections
Russia was asked to join the united nations
Russia promised to join war when germany surrendered. -
Buchenwald Liberation
Was the largest camp in the German boarder -
Bergen-Belsen Liberation
Bergen-Belsen was origanily a POW camp but was then taken over and converted into a concentration camp -
Death of Mussolini
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Sachsenhausen Liberation
Built by political prisoners in 1936 -
Battle of Königsberg
One of the last big battles on the eastern front in which Russia pushed the Germans further out of the USSR -
Dachau Liberation
Dachau was the first and one of the largest Nazi concentration camps -
Death of Mosillini
April 28, 1945, Giulino, Mezzegra, Italy
was executed in northern italy by anti-fascists
his body was taken to a village square where the people could insult and abuse him
he was buried in an unmarked grave but then dug up and stolen by anti fascists.
His body was discovered 4 months later but kept hidden for eleven years -
Death of Hitler
April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany
Hitler ate a cyanide pill then shot himself
Dönitz authorized the Germans to stop fighting in the west. -
Final German Surrender
Hitler signed a document surrendering all German armed forces -
German Instrument of Surrender
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Battle of Poljana
Last Major battle of the war -
Berlin Declaration
It was a meeting regarding the defeat of German
Had to determan how to punish Germany and how to govern it after the war
Had to devide up the land between countries -
Potsdam Conference
This was the major powers in the war deciding how to punish Germany
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman each represented their countries in the deliberations
The goal was to establish order, sign peace treaties, and fix the wreckage from the war -
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Potsdam Conference