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Germany's Invasion of Poland
The first thing hitter wanted to do when he came into power was to sign a nonaggressive pact with Poland. The polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units had more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, they broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germans decided to try the Blitzkrieg tactic in Poland during 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium. This happened because it was the middle of WWll and Germany was trying to over take Europe which they accomplished. This caused war with Great Britain and Germany did not defeat Great Britain and ended up losing several thousands of men. This went on from September 1939 til June 1940.
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Germany's Invasion of Poland (continued)
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was built in April 1940 and was used as like a jail to hold Jews. Nearly 1,095,000 people died in the concentration camp between 1940 and 1945 some of the lasting effects that Auschwitz had on this world is that so many lives were taken in that concentration camp and you'll never be able to get those lives back.
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The Fall of Paris
The German advance continued forward. Fleeing for there lives was 10 million refugees. The abandoned everything they had as in fear the Germans would kill them. They fled Paris and it was then considered an open city. The Germans then took Paris as there's and continued on through Paris to take more ground. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/francesurrenders.htm -
The Holocaust (continued)
The holocaust had a lasting effect on the world because now everyone looks at the holocaust and thinks that's how segregation started.
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The Holocaust
During the holocaust Jewish people were mass murdered and put into concentration camps and left there to die. In 1934 Adolf Hitler became Germany's head of state. He introduced anti-Semitic laws which discriminated against Jewish people living in the areas he controlled. The Nazi's came to believe that Jews were a problem so they came up with a solution to get rid of them, Hitler called it "The Final Solution" also known as the Holocaust. -
Wannsee Conference
On the 20th of January 1942 fifteen of high-ranking Nazi Party and German officials gathered at a Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The Wannsee conference happened to try and come up with a resolution to end the holocaust. There are not many lasting effects because it didn't resolve the holocaust but it was a starting point for resolving it.
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Bataan Death March
The war came to the Philippines the same day it came to Hawaii and in the same manner – a surprise air attack. In the case of the Philippines, however, this initial strike was followed by a full-scale invasion of the main island of Luzon three days later. This caused the Filipino and American defenders to retreat and go to a little place on the Bataan island. They were then fought and captured by the Japanese. -
Bataan Death March (continued)
Then the Japanese began to March 76,000 prisoners on a 60 mile trek back north along a route of death. Some Americans escaped and later on called it the March of death because so many people died. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bataandeathmarch.htm -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese began to get bombed and brutalized. They realized the only way to protect Japan was to increase there defense line eastward and a little island thousand ,lies from Hawaii named midway became the target. The Japanese threw almost the entire Imperial Fleet into the battle - six aircraft carriers, eleven battleships, thirteen cruisers, forty-five destroyers, assorted submarines, transports and mine sweepers. -
The Battle of Midway (continued)
The Americans had surprised the Japanese and that they had on their side they fought for awhile the Americans suck ships and Japan then retreated and from then on they were defensive. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/midway.htm -
Battle of Starlingrad (continued)
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Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. 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 that they weren't giving up yet in the war. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
They encounter resistance from the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization; Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa). The early morning roundups take the ZOB organization by surprise, and individuals take to the streets to resist the Germans. Other Jews in the ghetto retreat into prepared hiding places. The Germans, expecting the expulsions to run smoothly, are surprised by the resistance. In act of retaliation they massacre 1,000 Jews in the main square on January 21. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (continued)
The Germans could either kill or deport between 5,000 and 6,500 Jews for being resistant. After a month of fighting the Germans blow up the synagogue of Warsaw signaling the end of the uprising for the Jews. They still barricaded themselves in buildings ready to resist upon the Germans. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007745 -
D-Day
Western Europe was invaded by allies on June 6th 1944 and now known as one of the largest ambitious tracks in the worlds history. Nearly 156,000 British, Canadian and American forces landed on five different beaches along France's Normandy region. D-Day was an attempt to put an end to Hitler's "Final Solution" so that way the Jewish people could stop suffering. During the hours D-Day was happening an estimated 4,000 or more soldiers lost their lives, and thousands were wounded. -
D-Day (continued)
Not many solders walked away from this battle without injuries, if they were lucky enough to walk away alive.
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Battle of Bulge (continued)
This war effected many German soldiers which caused their casualties to grow thin and this was one of the last major wars before the holocaust came to an end.
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Battle of Bulge
In December of 1944 Adolf hitter attempted to split the allied armies in northwestern Europe by performing a surprise blitzkrieg. Being caught off guard the Americans fought desperate battles to stem the German advance. The allies had approximately 90,000 troops and the Germans had approximately 100,000 soldiers. This battle was a cause of hitler trying to get one last ditch attempt to split the allies in two and destroy their ability to supply themselves. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
U.S. President Harry S. Truman was discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender, so president Harry S. Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life. So on August 6th "little boy" was dropped and exploded over 1,900 feet over a hospital. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb (continued)
Some lasting effects the atomic bomb had is it will never be forgotten, approximately 80,000 were killed and 35,000 injured.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in WWII Veterans
This war was much different because of the bigger guns and bombs used in it. Soldiers were placed into smaller combat groups and occurred for less socialization. The war took a big toll on the minds of the soldiers despite the screenings. In fact, so many soldiers were affected that psychiatrists were confronted with the reality that psychological weakness had little to do with subsequent distress in combat. https://historyofptsd.wordpress.com/world-war-ii/
