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Battle of the Bulge
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. A crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of the Ardennes proved fatal to Hitler’s ambition to snatch, if not victory, at least a draw with the Allies in the west. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casua -
The Holocaust (1933)
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Holocaust started because of ingrained antisemitism both in Germany and the countries it conquered, compounded by propaganda and the resources of a powerful state, and the encouragement and leadership of political leaders. The holocaust makes people stop and really think that they shouldn't get to comfortable in the state that they are at becaus -
Germany's invasion of Poland (1939)
Germany attacked Poland in attempt to gain more land for Germany to take over so that there would be room for everyone. The German troops invaded Poland along its 1,750 mile border at 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939. Due to the invasion the government was evacuated to Britain and was unable to return to Poland after the red army occupied it in 1944/1945 and installed a puppet communist government. -
USSR in WWII
USSR in WWI :
Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet. two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. On August 22, 1939, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) flew from Berlin to Moscow. He was soon inside the Kremlin, face-to-face with Stalin and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (18 -
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" "lightning war". Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons along a narrow front. -
Fall of Paris (1940)
June 14, 1940 the Germans announced there was a curfew of 8 p.m. as they were entering Paris. The Germans rolled tanks into Paris and made 2 million Parisians flee. -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising (1943)
Between 1941 and 1943 unground resistance movements formed in over 100 Jewish groups. In the summer of 42 around 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. It started April 19, 1943. In Warsaw Poland the Nazis were trying to get the city's of Jewish ghettos are met with gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters. -
D-Day (1944)
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
PTSD
PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing of a life-threatening events such as military combat or natural disasters. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Auschwitz III–Monowitz, and 45 satellite camps. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. Five and a half hours later, “Little Boy” was dropped, exploding 1,900 feet over a hospital and unleashing the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast -
Liberation of concentration camps
The societies were the first to liberate concentration camps. On July 23 1944 they invaded the auchiwitz camp.
