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The holocaust
What happened during the Holocaust was that German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others. It happened because the Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
What happened was that Germany invaded Poland. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. This happened because the German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned bet -
German Blitzkrieg
What happened was that Germany quickly over ran much of Europe and had victories for more then two years by using new military tactics such as planes and tanks. This happened because Germany wanted to build its empire and felt like other European powers were restricting them. There weren't any effects or impacts. -
Battle of Stalingrad
What happened was that the Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. This happened because they wanted to stop the German advance into the Soviet Union and to stop the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The effect it had was that the Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hit -
Battle of Midway
What happened was that this was the most decisive U.S victory against Japan during World War ll. This happened because of the attack on the Pearl Harbor. The U.S was determined to take revenge. The effect it had was that it was the most important battle of World War ll and it allowed the U.S and its allies to move into offensive position. -
Auschwitz
What happened was that trains would bring tons of Jews to this camp. They would bring the Jews to gas chambers to kill them. Jews chosen for slave labor were stripped of everything, including outward differentiation between male and female. They did this because there was an escalation in the persecution of the Soviet Jews. New units were committed to special duties in the East, among them the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, which began to target Jewish women and children as well as men. The effect th