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WORLD WAR TWO
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German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg happened because the germans were trying to limit the resupply of enemy forces to limit their defense. Strict weapon tactic was used including planes, tanks, and heavy artillary by the germans. The enemy was forced to surrounder due to all the planes, tanks, and heavy artillary behind the enemy line.
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Fall of Paris
Germany invaded France and pushed them out completely. Occuring because Hitler unleashes his biltzkrieg invasion of the low countries and fanceon 5-10-40. The outcome was eventually forcing them to surrounde. France was declared and open city letting germans enter the French capital.
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Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II. Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. There was three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a teo front war.
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Pearl Harbor
Sunday, December 7, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Although it only lasted two hours two thousand Americans died and one thousand were wounded. The next day America declared war on Japan, three days Japan allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States. After staying neutral for two years the United States had finally entered War War II. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
Wannsee Conference
Fifteen high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to devise a plan that would render the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Heydrich suggested to transport Jews from Europe to concentration camps in Poland and working them to death. They thought it would be to time consumming with the stronger ones by just working them. Later they had "gas vans" which begain killing a thousand people a day, this was their solution to there problem. -
Battle of Death March
The United States surrenders of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese. 75,000 American and Filipino troops were forced to walk 65 miles to prision camps with hot heat and terrible treatment by the gaurds. Thousands died due to no water and later became known as the Death March. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
The Italian government surrendered to the Allies on September third, the offical announcement was on september eight.
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
D-Day was originally suppose to be on June 5, 1944 but due to bad weather it was pushed back to June 6, twenty-four hours later. 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces stormed onto five beaches containing a fifty mile stretch on the coast of France's Normandy region. 4,000 allied troops lost their lives due to the D-Day invasion while many more were missing or wounded. Nazi Germany surrendered to Allied powers, Hitler killed himself a week earlier April 30th.
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Battle of the Bulge
This battle was in the middle of December, as a result to cold temperture, snow, and many men froze to death. Germany wanted to take back Belgium, but allies were pusing back germany. January 25,1945 allies win the battle. German army falls apart after the battle of the bulge.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. January 27, 1945 they entered Auschwitz finding hundreds of prisioners: sick and extremely tired. From very little to eat, those who were alive were basically living skeletons. Even after being freed from the camps, many died due to the fact their bodies could not digust anything.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
February 19, American soilders attack Japanese island, Iwo Jima. Japanese defended themselves with 23,000 army and navy troops, who fought from a well planned out network of tunnels, caves, dugouts, and underground installations. The defenders were wiped out within a month by the Americans, a United States flaged being raised prior to victory. Americans lost 5,900 soilders and 17,400 of them were wounded.
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Battle of Okinawa
This was not only the last battle is was also the biggest battle on the pacific island battles. The United States had 287,000 troops against the 130,000 soilders the Japanese had. Japan had lost 77,000 soilders and United States had lost 14,000 with 65,000 wounded. The commanding generals on both sides died in the course of this battle.
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VE Day
May 8, 1945 made history when German troops all throughout Europe surroundered their arms. Many Germans were captures before and after the war. Great Britian and United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The war is over. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945 a United States B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people instantly. Not giving the Japanese a chance to recover they dropped another atomic bomb three days later on Nagasaki, Japan causing more than 40,000 deaths. Months after the attack more than 100,000 died slow, horrible deaths due to radiation poisioning.
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V-J Day
August 14, 1945 Japan had surroundered to its allies, ever since it has been knows as Victoryover Japan day or better known as V-J Day. September 2, 1945 Japen took formal surrounder on the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
