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Germany
On this day Adolf Hitler becaame chancellor of germany -
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WW2
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Adolf Hilter violate the treaty
Adolf Hitler violated the treaty of versailles . -
munich appeased
French Preimer Edouard Daladar and pime minister Neville Chamberlan signed the munich pact,which seals the fate of Czechoslavika handing the city to Germany,.to make peace in our time. -
Nazi-Soviet pact
Represenatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi Non Aggression pact which guranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
World War 2 began
Beginning with the German invasion of Poland,Britain and France declared war on Germany only two days later. -
Battle of Britain
This battle received its name from a speech Winston Churchhill delivered to the Britich House of commons on June 18,1940 When he stated "The battle of France is over .I expect the battle is about to begin. -
The French Surrendered
France signed an armistice with Germany. Hitler insisted that france surrender in the war in 1918. -
Lend Lease
Lend Lease-The Lend-Lease Act was passed in March 1941, despite arguments that it led the U.S. closer to war. Much of the $49 billion in aid went to British Commonwealth countries; the Soviet Union, China, and 40 other countries also received assistance. -
Blitzkrieg
The lightining war was used by the Germans it is a tactic based on speed and surpirse and is needed as a military force to be based around a light tank. -
Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Atlantic Charter
A group of 26 Allied nations pledged their support for this declaration, known as the Atlantic Charter. The document is considered one of the first key steps toward the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. -
Big Three
big three:- Roosevelt open the Tehran Conference. The first face-to-face meeting of the "Big Three," the Tehran Conference was one of only two World War II meetings between US President Franklin Roosevelt, UK Prime Minister, and USSR Premier Joseph Stalin. -
D-Day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Fall of Berlin (German Surrender)
The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki
An American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomber dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastat -
V-J Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” -
United Nations
On this day in 1945, the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, is now effective and ready to be enforced -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
definitions
island hopping:American commanders adopted a strategy of island hopping in preparation for taking the war to Japan. It would have been impossible for the United States to recapture every Japanese-held island in the Pacific. Instead, the Americans used their naval superiority to isolate heavily defended islands.
