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Germany's invasion on poland
September 1st, 1939 Hitler orders for 1.5 million troops to push the 1,750 mile long beach on Polands coast. Hitler ordered SS troops to dress up as polish soldiers and to stage a fake invasion. They even took it as far as to take dead concentration and dressing them up in polish uniforms. And nazi propagandists publicized this as an unforgettable act of aggression. But all long hitter said this was a defensive act. -
German blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
Blitzkrieg accounted for many of Germany's military victories from (1939-1942). It happened because Germany needed new ways of warfare to win. The effects of these were Germany for closer to winning the war.
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German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
German blitzkrieg was also known as "The Lighting War" and what happened was that Germany made big plans to use momentum and speed to win battles. They started their attacks on Poland and went through Low Countries and France. It meant war of movement and they used storm troopers then evolved into modern mobile warfare. -
Auschwitz
Also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau opened in 1940 in southern Poland. It was initially used for a detention center for political prisoners. It was the biggest death camps the nazis had. Most where often put in gas chambers or used as slave labor. But some were also used for medical experiments. -
Auschwitz
It's en estimated that over a million people where killed in Aushwits alone. In 1945 with the soviet army moving in quick nazi generals demanded the camp to be abandoned and 60,000 prisoners where lead on a March to other death camps. -
Fall of Paris (1940)
The French have been in the war for nine months and now the Germans were planning an attack on them. The code name of the plan was case yellow. It was an offensive of armor through the Ardennes forest. The German forces overwhelmed the Dutch forces and in four days the Germans had broken through the French lines. The German forces kept advancing and the French could not stop them because the air forces were not working. -
Fall of France (1940)
Italy joined in on the Germans side and the French capital fell. The invasion only lasted seven weeks and the Germans won. A quote from this invasion was "If the tanks succeed, then victory follows."
Heinz Guderian.
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The Holocaust (1941-1945)
Adolf hitler became the leader of Germany and he did not like Jews at all. It all started out with having concentration camps for communists and then it turned into camps for Jews. Hitler and the nazis killed over 6 million Jews during the holocaust. This all happened because of nazi racism towards Jews. The effects of the holocaust were major for Jews and the world. When it was over the Jews that survived had no where to go or live.
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USSR in WWII
Everyone thought the Germans would destroy the USSR but that wasn't the case. The Germans went to Russia in their winter uniforms anticipating and easy war. But they had to be there longer then they thought while it was winter. And the the Germans had their summer uniforms on. And where running low on supplies and tried to stay warm using newspaper and straw. Mean while this all took place in late 1941. -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
The Wannsee conference was a meeting between nazi officials on January 20, 1942. This was in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. They held this meeting to plan the "final solution" for the Jewish question. It happened because they wanted to have a systematic way to murder the Jews. The effects of this was within a few months there were poison-gas chambers in Poland.
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Battle of midway
June 4th 1942 an epic air and sea battle occurred. Between the U.S.A and Japan. America was severely undermined compare to the Japanese navy. The battle lasted and astonishing four days and incredibly America won the air and sea fight. They destroyed four Japanese aircraft carries to only one of americas being destroyed. Japan had an estimated 2500 deaths. Compared to Americas only 300 deaths. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
When combined they made up an army of roughly 500 Jews. They gathered up mostly pistols and explosives. They mangaged to hold out for months until help arrived by taking out people on patrol when they had the chance. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
On July 28th, 1942 multiple underground Jewish organizations came together to form an armed self defense unit know as the Jewish combat organization. A rough estimate would put the number of the fighters at 200. There was another group also called the Jewish military Union. At first the two groups didn't get along very well but decided they needed to work together. -
Allied invasion of Italy (1943)
The invasion of Italy was on September 3-16, 1943. The allied forces invaded the Italy and they won the battle they called the race to Messina. The allied forces landed over 150,000 soldiers on the mainland in three days. The Italian government surrendered after the mainland was invaded.
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D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on a stretch of beach that went for 50 miles. To try to attack a heavily maned beach on a French coastline. The beaches where known as Normandy. More then 5,000 ships and more then 13,000 aircraft added the allies on the beaches of Normandy. -
Battle of the bulge (1945)
The Germans kept advancing and the bad conditions could not permit the U.S to use air support. When the conditions were good enough to use air support the U.S took control and ended the battle January 25, 1945.
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Battle of the Bulge (1945)
The battle of the bulge was the last great offensive that hitter had on the western front. Hitlers plan was to split the British and American lines and capture the port of Antwerp. The Germans could barely find enough men to complete the plan. The plan started out good with the Germans taking the U.S by surprise and the U.S had to surrender. -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
In offensives, allied troops moved across Europe and encountered many concentration camps. The first camps they reached were destroyed by the Germans and burnt down to get rid of evidence of the mass killings. They liberated many more camps and they liberated auschwitz. In the the months to follow many more camps were liberated by British, U.S, and soviets. -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
The nazis surrendered and when the liberators saw the conditions of the concentrations camps left, they were in horror seeing all the bodies that were left and unburied.
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D-Day
More then 9,000 soldiers where either killed or wounded in the fight for Normandy. But after all the looses of men and supplies progress was being made. It allowed 100,000 troops to continue the march into France -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
The dropping of the atomic bombs was on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. A b-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb (little boy) on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb killed at least 80,000 people and wiped out a bunch of the city. Japan's emperor did not want to surrender. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
A few days later another b-29 bomber dropped another atomic bomb (Fat man) in the city of Nagasaki in Japan. This bomb did not do as much damage because of the location but it caused the Japan emperor to surrender and there was much celebration In the U.S and the allied nation.
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PTSD in Veterans
Ww2 was different then all other wars do to technology advances. The weapons where better the Bombs where better and it out all the soldiers at risk of dying more. Amlot had to do with the fighting involved. Over 50 % of the soldiers endured long brutal fighting. And over 25% of deaths where caused by war trauma. It's horrible to know that these soldiers had to fight and then go home and fight something like PTSD and they constantly think about things like suicide.
