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Non-Aggression Pact
Non-aggression pact is known as a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war. Armed conflict between them was no so instead they resolved their problems through peaceful negotiations. A pledge of avoiding armed conflict even if they find themselves fighting third countries. Also including allies of the participants. -
The Holocaust
The Nazi Germany beleived that Jew were the issues to their probelms so they begain to kill every single one. They sent all Jew to gas chambers and labor camps to later die. Nazi's approximately killled 11 million people, including one million Jewish children alone. It changed society and the way people looked at Germans. -
Japan Invades China
Known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan invades China, with help of Germany in order to take over China. The war turned nto a greater conflict of World War II. China later surrender of all Japanese forces in the mainlands. China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council after. -
Munich Conference
The also known as the Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting the Nazi Germany's along the country's borders. The agreement was decussed in Munich, Germany, among the major people of Europe, without anyone from Czechoslovakia. The reasoning for the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in demands made by Adolf Hitler. -
Germany Invades Poland
Poland was invaded by the German's, Soveit Union, and Slovak making for thr start of World War II in Europe. The German's made the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement. With an end result of Soviet Union taking over the whole Poland. This causes the Decisive Axis and victory for The Soviet Union.
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Battle of Britain
Given the name as the Second World War, Germany's ari force was going againist the United Kingdom during July 1940. The Germans wanted full power of the UK to gain air superioty over the Royal Air Force. It was the largest bombing campaign to this date. They later cancelled the invasion of Britain but still contuined to bomb Britain, known as The Blitz. -
Blitzkrieg
Biltzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy which forces them to use the mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It resulted in short military campaigns, which helped save human lives. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease Act was a program which the United States supplied Great Britain, The Free o France, the Republic of China and later the USSR. It was signed on March 11, 1941 after the outbreak of World War II in Europe and nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941. It was totally of $50 billion were shipped to support Great Britain and other foreign relations that needed help with support. -
Pearl Harbor
When Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Jappennse on Decemeber 7th of 1941 it was known as a ever tragic day that caused the U.S to join World War II. Japan plad a surpise attack on the island of Hawaii which killed millions and resulted as one of the most tragic days in American still to this day. -
Operation Barbarossa
Was code for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km of land, making it one of the largest invasions. Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer the Soviet territories embodied in Generalplan Ost. Almost all German Army soldiers from 1941 to 1944, and all Allied military entered the war. -
Bataan Death March
When the U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the island of Philippine, Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to march 65-mile to prison camps. The marchers were very intense and harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Battle of Midway
Was fought in Pacific Theater of Operations and was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Six months after the attack on Pearl Habor, Raymond Spruance decisived a defeated attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference was a meeting held in the Berlin for Naxi Germans outside of Wannsee. Director of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reinhard Heydrich called in the meeting to rounded up from west to east and sent European Jews to them to camps in the General Government, where they would later be killed. -
Battle of Stalingard
Was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies went to war with Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. Was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. It was a major turning point for the Europeans and never regained from the lost. German's bomb cities and rivers killing many untell Soviet Union surrenered. -
D-Day
The allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. The largest invasion in history, the operation began the invasion in Germany, western Europe, which led to the restoring of the French Republic, and this contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
Major German campaign on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. It was planned by Hilter to capture the Antwerp and attack Allied forces surpisingly. The battle had many names, Germany called it The Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein. The French called it The Bataille des Ardennes but the phrase "Barttle of the Bulge" was decribed the way the allied front line bugled on wartime. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Also know as The Operation Detachment, it was a major battle where the United States Armed Forces fought for the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The goal was to attacks on the Japanese main islands to capture the entire island. It lasted for five weeks battle making for one bloody War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. It was the largest assault in the Pacific War of World War II. A 82-day long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. From campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa. They wanted the island only 340 miles away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations of the Japanese mainland -
V-E Day
The Victory of Europe was celebrated on May 8th of the Germany's surrendering its armed forces. This marked the end of World War II in Europe. It was a great day for the people of Europe by celebrated from Moscow to Los Angeles. The streets were filled with people cheering with joy. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the end of World War II in August 1945 the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were conducted by the U.S. The two bombs were the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare and killed thousands of people. Japan surrendered to the Allies on September 2, which effectively ending World War II. -
V-J Day
The day when Japan surrendered, ending World War II. August 15 is the official V-J Day for the UK, for U.S. it is September 2, named V-J Day for the victory of Europe. On September 2, 1945 Japan surrendering ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. In Japan, August 15 is known as the “memorial day for the end of the war”. -
Warsaw Pact
Know as the Treaty of Friendship, was a defense treaty among eight communist states. Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was in part a Soviet military of West Germany but really wanted The Soviet control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. The alliance was made into theCollective Security Treaty Organization, known as the CSTO.