-
Germany established about 20,000 camps
-
-prevented Jews from living a normal German citizenship life
-
-leaders of Great Britian, France and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia
-
-91 Jews killed in the attack
-
Throughout the Reich, tens of thousands lined up at foreign consulates desperate for visas.
-
-62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion on Poland
-
-main German attack went through the Ardennes Forest
-
-started by Blitzkrieg
-
-Japanese managed to destroy 20 American naval vessels (8 enormous batteships) and 200 planes
-
-surrendered to the US in September
-
Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question
-
-128km march
-
-plan was to capture Austrialia and make them surrender to Japan
-
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll
-
-bloodiest battle in history, 2 million casualties
-
American strategic thinking in early 1942 aimed at defeating Nazi Germany before turning to the problems that a flood of Japanese conquests and victories were raising in the Pacific.
-
-only two naval leaders ever killed in a naval battle were killed here
-
-60,000 Allies powers dead and 50,000 German soliders dead
-
-water and airbone operation, followed by six weeks of land combat
-
Allied commanders expected a relatively easy campaign.
-
Despite heavy resistance from the 4,500 Japanese troops dug in on Betio, the Marines finally took the island after a bloody, 76-hour battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.
-
-discussed D-Day, war, stratedgey and the defeat of Japan
-
The operation caught the German military high command unaware.
-
-greatest carrier battle of WW2
-
-several american names for this battle
-
-Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan's surrender
-
-Americans wanted to capture the islands for an avantage attack on Japan
-
On this day, U.S. warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours.
-
For the coming campaign, Buckner possessed nearly 200,000 men.
-
-longest serving president, died of brain hemmorage
-
-Big Three leaders met in Potsdam to discuss post-war arangments
-
The test was performed two days ahead of the tentative schedule because everything of importance to the test was ready.
-
-the bomb was named Fat Man
-
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
-
The decision to drop the bomb was a difficult one for the new President Harry S. Truman.
-
Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan's capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.