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Death Camps
Germany established about 20,000 camps -
Nuremberg Laws
-prevented Jews from living a normal German citizenship life -
Munich Confrence
-leaders of Great Britian, France and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia -
Kristallnacht
-91 Jews killed in the attack -
St. Loius Affair
Throughout the Reich, tens of thousands lined up at foreign consulates desperate for visas. -
Invasion of Poland
-62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion on Poland -
German Invasion of France
-main German attack went through the Ardennes Forest -
Dunkirk
-started by Blitzkrieg -
Pearl Harbor
-Japanese managed to destroy 20 American naval vessels (8 enormous batteships) and 200 planes -
Wake Island
-surrendered to the US in September -
Wannese Conference
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 -
Bataan Death March
-128km march -
Coral Sea
-plan was to capture Austrialia and make them surrender to Japan -
Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll -
Stalingrad
-bloodiest battle in history, 2 million casualties -
Invasion of North Africa
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. -
Guadalcanal
-only two naval leaders ever killed in a naval battle were killed here -
Fall of Rome
-60,000 Allies powers dead and 50,000 German soliders dead -
Sicily Invasion
-water and airbone operation, followed by six weeks of land combat -
Invasion of Italy
Allied commanders expected a relatively easy campaign. -
Tarawa
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. -
Tehran Confrence
-discussed D-Day, war, stratedgey and the defeat of Japan -
d-day
The operation caught the German military high command unaware. -
Phillipines
-greatest carrier battle of WW2 -
Battle of the Bulge
-several american names for this battle -
Yalta Confrence
-Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan's surrender -
Iwo Jima
-Americans wanted to capture the islands for an avantage attack on Japan -
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
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. -
Okinawa
For the coming campaign, Buckner possessed nearly 200,000 men. -
Death of FDR
-longest serving president, died of brain hemmorage -
Postdam Confrence
-Big Three leaders met in Potsdam to discuss post-war arangments -
Trinity Test
The test was performed two days ahead of the tentative schedule because everything of importance to the test was ready. -
Nagasaki
-the bomb was named Fat Man -
Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Enola Gay
The decision to drop the bomb was a difficult one for the new President Harry S. Truman. -
VJ Day
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.