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Munich Peace Confrence
-Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini Met with the British prime minister
-tried to appease him by giving him a part of Czechoslovakia that was mostly German speaking -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
-Hitler and Joseph Stalin sign a Non-Aggression pact so Hitler does not have two fronts to fight on -No one thought this pact would last long -
German Invasion of Poland
-Going his against his Appeasement with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler Invades Poland
-Uses a new Military Strategy called Blitzkrieg -
Miracle of Dunkirk
-Code-name "Operation Dynamo"
-This mission involved getting the allied forces safely off the beaches of Dunkirk, People call it the :Miracle of Dunkirk -
Battle of Britian
-the battle where the Royal Air Forcw defended Great Britian for Arial German attacks
-even though they were strong, the germans had to retreat -
Atlantic Charter
-Winston Churchill and President FDR, meet up to discuss there terms and goals for the war
-gave a clear decleration of what they wanted to accomplish -
Pearl Harbor Attacked!
-the japenese launched a suprise attack on the U.S Navy Base located on Oahu, Hawii
-over 2,400 american sailors died, causes us to abandon isolationist polices -
Operation Torch
-this was the code-name for the allied invasion of North Africa
-made the Afrika Corps surrender, big win for allies because the can now attack from below -
Battle of Midway
-American Code Talkers deciphered that japan would be attacking the Midway islands -Americans protected the islands, big loss for japan with a loss of 4 cruisers and 237 planes lost -
Soft Underbelly Campaign
-Winston Churchill thought that if they attacked Italy, Germany would go down with it
-"All Crocodiles have underbellies, their "weak spot", and Germany`s happens to be Italy." -
Battle of Stalingrad
-Hitler wanted to attack Joseph Stalin`s pride, and Stalingrad had his name on it, and it was a major industrial city for the U.S.S.R
-Joseph Stalin would not let his pride be demolished, ordered his men to protect it, 1,010,000 lost for Russia -
D-Day (Invasion of Normandy,France)
-As Hitler was to busy fearing over America`s "Phantom Army", Our forces broke through the beaches of Normandy
-One of the Bloodiest battles in the war, but the allies won an 80 mile strip of land -
Battle of the Bulge
-Hitlers last major offensive against the allies, using Blitzkrieg to try to break through their lines
-could`nt take the losses and deaths, had to retreat -
Iwo Jima
- the battle for a island outside of japan called Iwo Jima, America invaded hoping to take over -they needed this island to be able to bomb japan from a close distance, rather than coming across the ocean
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Okinawa
- Code-name "Operation Iceberg", a series of battles fought on the Japanese Ryukyu Islands
-Wanted to take Island by Island using a strategy called "Island Hoping"
- Code-name "Operation Iceberg", a series of battles fought on the Japanese Ryukyu Islands
-Wanted to take Island by Island using a strategy called "Island Hoping"
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FDR dies in office
-President Franklin .D. Roosevelt was posing for a portrait in the white house and had a stroke, died on the scene
-he died after living a 4 year term, the first time in history, Harry S. Truman will resume presidency -
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
-Hitler sees how things will go and he commits suiside, Nazi`s surrender not far after
-Great Britain celebrates winning the war, but america still has a war to fight in japan -
Postadam Confrence
- Joseph Stalin, Attlee, and Harry S. Truman, met to discuss the terms of Germany`s surrender -Stalin Promises free European Elections...(he lies!), and truman wants free democracy in the won-over parts of europe
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Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-Harry S. Truman learns of the atomic bomb and decides to use it on japan, warns them to surrender, "Little Boy" is dropped 70 miles above the city and causes massive damage and casualties
-they did not surrender, so we decided to drop another on the city of Nagasaki, in which 150,000 people died from the "Fat Man", but 200,000 from the "Little Boy" -
Japan Surrenders, (V-J Day)
-Japan finally surrenders after the second atomic bomb was dropped
-America celebrated because it meant that WWII was finally over -
Yalta Confrence
-Code-named the Argonaut Conference, is where Joseph Stalin, FDR, and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet
-they come to discuss the reorganization of post-war Europe, and how Germany would be split.
