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Kristallnacht
-The start of the Kristallnacht was the turning point of Jewish suffering. Three days before, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat, Von Rath, in Paris. The Germans saw this as a great opportunity to attack the Jews.They also had to wear yellow stars to signify that they were Jews. Just on November 9,1938, 90 Jews were murdered, and 76 temples were destroyed. After Kristallnacht, 30,000 Jews were put into concentration camps and ghettos. -
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German Blitzkrieg
is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defense by short, fast, powerful attacks. Used all throughout the war the allies had no counter to this method of attack. German man oeuvre operations were successful in the campaigns of 1939–1941 and by 1940 the term blitzkrieg was extensively used in Western media -
The SS St. Louis
What- The 937 refugees on board the luxury liner was desperate to leave a dangerous situation in Europe
Why-WW2 was gonna get everyone not german killed
Impact-the passengers were not allowed to disembark. Since Jewish refugees were not allowed into America or Canada, the ship had to turn back and return to Germany in which the passengers were put into concentration camps. -
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Battle of Atlantic
-The Battle of the Atlantic, from 1939 to 1945, was the longest continuous battle of the Second World War. The first shotswere fired on 3 September 1939, just hours after Britain formally declared war on Germany. Canada declared war on Germany a week later, on 10 September 1939.The Battle of the Atlantic was a critical part of the Allied victory in the Second World War. From 1939–45 more than 36,000 Allied sailors, soldiers and airmen, and another 36,000 merchant seamen, lost their lives. -
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
Or called the "Miracle of Dunkirk" was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops around the mid-point of the six-week long Battle of France. 40,000 troops sacrificed their lives for their fellow soldiers to make sure they made it home.300000 soldiers escaped death -
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Battle of Britain
n the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War I. Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces while proving that air power alone could be used to win a major battle. The reason this took place was because the Luftwaffe wanted to have air control over Britain -
Operation Barbossa
was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labor force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. -
Japanese Canadians internment
-Japanese Canadian Internment was when the Canadian government removed all of the Japanese Canadians from the British Columbia coast following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, invasion of Malaya, attack on Pearl Harbor.This forced relocation subjected many Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, job and property losses, and forced repatriation to Japan.Beginning after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and lasting until 1949 -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians.The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan -
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Battle of Hongkong
-Hong Kong was the first place Canadians fought a land battle in the Second World War. From 8 to 25 December 1941, almost 2,000 troops from Winnipeg and Québec City sent to Hong Kong expecting little more than guard duty, fought bravely against the overwhelming power of an invading Japanese force. When the British colony surrendered on Christmas Day, 290 Canadians had been killed in the fighting. Another 264 would die over the next four years. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
-The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies.The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
The Dieppe Raid
What/Why-The purpose was to make a successful raid on German-occupied Europe over water, and then to hold Dieppe briefly. Impact-The results were disastrous. The German defenses were on the alert. The main Canadian landing on the Dieppe beach and flanking attacks at Puys and Pourville failed to reach any of their objectives. The raid took place on the northern coast of France on 19 August 1942. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories ofWorld War Two.This battle took place because If the Afrika Korps got to the Suez Canal, the ability of the Allies to supply themselves would be severely dented. The only alternate supply route would be via South Africa – which was not only longer but a lot more dangerous due to the vagaries of the weather. -
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Liberation of the Netherlands
-The liberation of the Netherlands, from September 1944 to April 1945, played a key role in the culmination of the Second World War, as the Allied forces closed in on Germany from all sides. -
D-Day
What/Why- On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.named Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate Europe from German occupation. D-day refers to the allied forces' invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944 during World War II. It is widely regarded as the single most important event in WWII and led to its conclusion in Europe. Impact- It resulted in the freedom of France. -
The Conscription Crisis
By the autumn of 1944, J.L. Ralston, minister of national defense, was convinced of the need for overseas conscription. Unexpectedly high casualties on the front, combined with a large commitment of manpower to the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy, left the Canadian Army short of recruits.Only 12,908 conscripted soldiers, disparagingly known as "zombies," were actually sent abroad, a tiny number compared with the hundreds of thousands of Canadian volunteers. -
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Rooseveltearly in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. The leaders agreed to require Germany’s unconditional surrender. They scheduled another meeting for April in San Francisco to create the United Nations. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan. -
Death of Hitler
Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day or so from overtaking the chancellery and urged to escape to Berchtesgaden,a small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler owned a home, the dictator instead chose suicide. It is believed that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules.he shot himself with his service pistol.The bodies of Hitler and Eva were cremated in the chancellery garden by the bunker survivors.A German court finally officially declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956 -
VE Day
Otherwise known as V-day is the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The formal surrender of the German forces occupying the Channel Islands did not occur until the following day, 9 May 1945. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
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Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. They dropped the bombs after permission from the UK, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, most of whom were civilians. They remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. . Also the Americans wanted to test their new weapons and bring the war to AN END