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Johann Elser had placed a timed bomb in the seat where Hilter would be giving his speech. The bomb goes off eight minutes later after Hilter finishes his speech.
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Also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War. It was an invasion in Poland by the German, the Soviet Union and Slovakia. The invasion started a week after the signing of the Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact. The invasion ended in October 6,1939.
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Lodz Ghetto was the second largest ghetto made. The ghetto was to be a place to hold the Jews until a plan was created but it later became a large industrial center. The ghetto managed to stay open until 1944 where at that time all the Jews left were transported to Auschwitz.
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With Hitler sending troops into France the French were forced to leave Paris namig it an open city. Marshall Petain take control of the new goverment. He states that they have to stop fighting. The 22nd armistice is signed in the same place where the signing of the armistice that ended WWI took place. Hitler took control over two-thirds of Frace and the French army is disbanded.
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"Operation Barbarossa" was the code name for the invasion of the Sovier Union. Hitler began the planning of the operation in winter of 1940. The day that was planned to invade Russia was said to be May 15th but the date was delayed to June 22nd due to other issues.
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Was a suprise attack by the Japanese navy to the American navyl At the attack 4 US battleships were sunk. As a result to the atack the US joined the war.
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Which was also known as Operation Detachment, Was a battle fough between the Americans and Japanese. At this battle the US captured the island of Iwo Jima. The battle lasfted over a month.
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Hitler commits suided alongside with his wife. He died of a gunshot and he also drank a cyanide capsule. And died in Berlin.
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The bombs where dropped with the order of President Truman. "Little Boy" was dropped in Hiroshima,Japan. The bomb killed between 90,000- 166,000 people in all. That same week the U.S. dropped the second bomb that forced Japan to sign the "Instrument of Surrender" ending the Pacific War and WWII.
