World War II and Beyond

  • Little man dropped

  • Extermination Camps

    Began and ghettos.
  • Blitzkreig

    a type of warfare that deployed both ground and air units, involving fast, short, powerful attacks usually on dense concentrations of enemies unit intended to bring a swift victory. Invasion of Poland
  • Japanese Internment

    forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans living on the Pacific coast.
  • The Shoah

    Holocaust: Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of European Jews. Germany's occupation of France and other countries in western Europe as well as its attack in Poland and Soviet Union put millions of additional Jews under German rule.
  • Battle of the Atlantic or Britian: Pacific Theater

    errays germans were launching at british. raydor technology established.
    Atlantic: hitler couldnt use the breigkreigs strategy so he really didnt have any heir power to make the battle of the atlantics successful.
  • The battle of Stalingrad: Pacific Theater

    it become evident that hitler had taken more than it was intended. stops hitlers successful use of the stops fighting with the russians.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese launched their attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
  • Theater of War: Japanese

    The main areas where battles occured.
    Japanese Theater of War: December 8th 1941- September 9, 1945: Conflict in the theatre began when the Empire of Japan invaded Thailand and Malaya from bases located in Indochina on 8 December 1941.
  • Operation Torch: African Theater of War

    pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and Allied merchant shipping. The convoys, coming mainly from North America and predominantly going to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces. These forces were aided by ships and aircraft of the United States from September 13, 1941.
  • North Africa Theater of War

  • Operation Overlord

    The long awaited Allied invasions of German-occupied France. U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied straregist George C. Marshall led the planing.
  • Battle of the Bulge: Pacific Theater

    Allies kept advancing in the Northern France but as they advanced they endded up with a bulge in the line. Hitler tried to successfuly stop the Allies and force them to retreat of off the mainland europe. the Allies end up defeating the german attack. Endded up decreasing germans soliders and it was known for sure that germany would end up surrounding sometime soon
  • Battle of Iwo Jima: Pacific Theater

    it is so close to japan, alot of causalties (several thousand marines and more than 20,000 japanese soldiers were killed).
  • Germany surrounder

  • Fatman Dropped

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  • United Nations

    The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. During the Second World War, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated talks on a successor agency to the League of Nations, and the United Nations Charter was drafted at a conference in April–June 1945; this charter took effect on 24 October 1945, and the UN began operation.
  • Nurembreig Trials

    a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
    the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal was given the task of trying 23 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich
  • Zionism

    Creation of Israel: the national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority in their own nation