Word War II was a time of many interactions between nations. It forged new alliances and and strengthened old ones to fight a new common enemy resulting in the loss of many lives on both sides of the war. Theme 3

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    World War II

  • Russia and Germany

    The Russians and the Germans sign a non-aggression pact. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree not to invade each other's borders. They plan to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them.

  • Germany Takes France

    Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. This was revenge for his nation's defeat in the first World War. Control of France had shifted to the Nazis.

  • Battles In Britain

    The three-month battle was fought in the skies of Britain which include destructive bombing raids on London and other cities, but by the end of October the British will hand Hitler his first loss. England had never really been attacked because it was an island which forced them to get more protection on the homefront.

  • Pearl Harbor

    The United States is forced into war when Japan launched a devastating surprise attack on the U.S. Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii trying to scare the U.S. out of the war. That tactic brought the war to America pulling them in.

  • D-Day

    Over 160,000 Allied troops and 30,000 vehicles are landed along a 50-mile stretch of fortified French coastline and began fighting on the beaches of Normandy. There are little to no other examples of cooperation of troops between different nation on such a large scale showing wars are no longer one on one.

  • Germany vs. Russia

    Germany begins its assault on the Russian city of Stalingrad. In a battle that raged for six months, and take hundreds of thousands of German and Russian lives, the Red Army finally defeats invading Nazis which had broken their non-aggretion pact drawing in Russian attacks in Germanies Eastern front.

  • French liberation

    After four years of German occupation, the Allies liberated Paris with the help of French resistance troops led by General Charles de Gaulle. This brought up another ally on the Allied side and marked a huge push back on aquired German land.

  • Hitler's Death

    As Soviet forces pushed into Berlin, Adolf Hitler took shelter in his bombproof bunker. There, he married Eva Braun, before poisoning her and shooting himself. His remains have never been found. His death leads to a change in German policy and leadership oustin the Nazi regime.

  • Soviet Union and the Pacific

    With still no surrender from Japan, the Soviet Union enters the Pacific war defeating the Japanese forces in Manchuria. This puts pressure on Japans other front besides just the pacific which was another great feat of cooperation between nations with conflicting view points.

  • Hiroshima

    The United States dropped an atomic bomb marking the first to be used in warfare on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000 and the Japanese still did not give up and remanied strong. This event gave birth to a new class of wwarfare.