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Hitler's "New Order"
The Nazis had sent thousands of Jews and political opponents to concentration camps and used the Jews were to work as slave laborers. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the torture and killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler. Hitler thought that the Jews were a inferior race. -
Japanese invasion of China
Sian-Japanese War, conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance of the expansion of Japanese influence in it's territory. -
Nazi-Soviet Act
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German invasion of Poland
1.5 million Germans troops invade Poland along it's 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
German Bliltzkrieg
German term for "lightining war", blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces use of mobile forces and locally concertrated firepower. -
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Miracle of Dunkrik
Code-named Operation Dynamo, was the rescue of Allied soldiers off the beaches an dharbors of Dunkirk. -
Operation Sea Lion
The plan relied on Germany hvaing complete control of the English Channel, they had to have control of the skies so the Royal Air Force couldn't attack German hsips crossing the channel. -
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Germany's seige on Leningrad
After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, a German army surrounded the city of Leningradin a siege beginning that September. -
Pearl Harbor
Hunderds of Japaneses fighter pilots attacked the american base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese destroyed 20naval carriers and out of the 20 8 were battleships. -
Bataan Death March
U.S surrendered the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WW2. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to walk 65-miles to death and prison camps. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle began when the German Army surrounding the city of Stalingrad.IN November the Soviets incircled their attackers. -
D-Day
More than a 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavliy-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched though the thick forested Ardenne region of Wallonia Belgium, France , and Luxembourg on the WesternFront towards the end of WW2. -
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Yalta Conference
A meeting of the Britsh prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President FDR as WW2 was winding down.Leaders agreeded to require Germany's unconditional surrender . -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, VE day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the acceptance by the Allies of WW2 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrenderof it's armed forces. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
An american B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city and immediately klled 140,000 people. -
Atomic bomb on Ngasaki
The bombing of Nagasaki suffered the same fate of Hiroshima. The bomb immediately killed 80,000 people. -
VJ Day
ON september 2,1945 a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman Declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the race to split the Atom Bomb. The Americans were the first to get the atom to split.
