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Greman Invasion on Poland
this event is also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War. This was a joint invasion between Germany and the Soviet Union and a small Slovak contingent. This marjor event marked the begining of World War II. -
German Blitzkreig
Blitzkrieg is a German term for "Lightning war". The blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by constsantly changing the front and defeat the through Vernichtungsschlacht. During the interwar period aircraft and tank technologies matured. Western journalists created the term Blitzkrieg as a form of Warfare. -
Fall of Paris
the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. When British and adjacent French forces were pushed back to the sea by the highly mobile and well-organized German operation, the Briti -
Battle of Britain
The German airforce against the UK. The objectve was to gain air superiorty over the royal airforce. The main targets were coastal shipping convoys and centers, such as Portsmouth. Opperation Sea Lion was then planned to invade Britain. Germany surrendered and it became a crucial turning point in Worl War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a suprise attack on Unitided States by Japanesse Navy, leading to United States entering the war. Meant to prevent the Unitied pacific fleet from messing with the Empire of Japan was planning in South East Asia, Netherlands, and USA. Sank and damaged 7 boats and ships. -
Battle of Staingrad
The sucessful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad. Considered by USSR the "Great Patriotic War". Stopped the Germany advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turnign point of the war. In favor of the allies. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
This four-day World War II skirmish in May 1942 marked the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese landed in the area, they came under attack from the aircraft carrier planes of the American task force commanded by Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher. -
Battle of Midway
6 Months after Pearl Harbor the USA defeated Japan. USA planned counter attack on Japan. Ambush of Japan's few aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on Japan's Navy. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. -
D-Day (Normandy)
D- day only lasted from June to August 1944 and resulted i allied liberation of og Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. 156,000 American, British, And Candian forces landed on five beaches. One of the largest invaion s in history. By late August all of Northern France is liberated. -
Battle of the bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name. Lieutenant General George S. Patton -
Battle of Iwa Jima
a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodie -
Liberation of Concentration camps
In the summer of 1944, the Soviets also overran the sites of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centers. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943, after most of the Jews of Poland had already been killed. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. -
Battle of Okinowa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Droppign of the Atomic Bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.
