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Germany's invasion of Poland
- Germany and Russia invaded Poland
- Germany invaded Poland because hitler claimed that it was a defensive action
- this victory for Germany acquired them more land.
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German blitzkrieg
- Germany enforced a military tactic across Europe That required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front.
- Germany wanted to preserve military vehicles, supplies, and soldiers
- Germany showed their military power and preserved resources while doing so.
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Operation Barbarossa
-nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union
- hitler wanted to invade Russia.
- Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR, all of which eventually failed -
Pearl Harbor
- japan invade the the us naval base near Hawaii
- japan wanted to weaken the us naval force.
- the us naval force was crippled and thousands of us lives were lost. It was the turning point of the war.
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Battle of Stalingrad
- battle between Germany and the Soviet Union in Stalingrad
- Germany attempted to capture stallingrad.
- it was a decisive victory for the soviet but resulted in many civilian and soldier deaths.
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D- Day
- us invasion of Normandy France
- the us tried to liberate Western Europe form nazis
- thousands of us troops and French civilians were lost but Germany lost.
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Battle of the bulge
- Germany attacked the allied forces in Belgium
- Germany wanted to launch an offensive campaign
- Germany lost and had over 500,000 casualties
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Liberation of concentration camps
- allied prisoner concentration camps were freed
- the allies wanted to free the POWs to both help the soldiers and hurt enemy
- thousands of soldiers were saved.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
-the us captured the island of Iwo Jima form the Japanese imperial army .
- goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields (including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands
- the us succeed but the island was not very useful. It was only used for emergency landings -
VE Day
-the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945
- mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
- it helped people see the bright side of the war and remeber the fallen soldiers -
Dropping the atomic bombs
- the us dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- the bombs were dropped to end the war.
- the war ended but resulted in over 100,000 of Japanese civilian deaths.
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VJ Day
- celebration marking the end of the war with japan
- helped resolve the differences and conflicts of the two country's
- VJ Day resulted in a both happy and sad day. It was happy because it marked the end of the war but it was sad because it reminds everyone about all of the lives that were lost.
