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Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. -
The guarantees given to Poland by Britain and France marked the end of the policy of appeasement. -
German military strategy involved invading the neutral Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) -
The evacuation, sometimes referred to as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was a big boost to British morale. -
It was one of Britain's most important victories of the Second World War because it showed Germany could be defeated, it allowed Britain to carry on fighting the war, -
to provide our nation with a structure and a system of guidelines which will provide the most prompt, efficient , and equitable draft possible -
Lend-Lease effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality which had been enshrined in the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s. It was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy and toward open support for the Allies. -
brought the United States into World War II, as it immediately declared war on Japan. -
when Japan staged a surprise attack on American military installations in the Pacific. -
Italy declared war on the United States in response to the latter's declaration of war upon the Empire of Japan following the attack -
stopped the growth of Japan in the Pacific and put the United States in a position to begin shrinking the Japanese empire -
The battle for North Africa was primarily a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia, but also an effort to drive Italy out of the war as a prelude to invasion of southern Europe and a planned bombing campaign against Germany. -
it led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian government to the Allies. -
The war would not be over by Christmas. But D-Day had opened another major front, where the bulk of America's rapidly expanding army could at last be brought to bear. -
Nazi Germany and its allies established over 44000 concentration camps and incarceration sites during the Holocaust. -
in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following -
to mark the end of World War II in Europe. -
The bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August 1945 brought an end to WW2, but what led to the decision to deploy these new weapons of mass destruction? -
The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device on August 9, 1945, caused terrible human devastation -
marks the end of World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history -
marked the last German offense on the Western Front. -
. It was the world's first carrier-vs. -carrier battle, and the first naval battle in which neither side's ships sighted the others