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The MFA programs were monuments,, Fine Arts, archive program. this program was nicknamed monuments men and roughly built off of 345 curators, Artists and historians over 13 countries that would protect treasuries from all kinds of cultures. This Allied unit returned over 5 million pieces of archives that were stolen by Nazis between 1945 and 1951. -
The invasion of Poland began on September 1, 1939. This was typically the beginning of World War II in Europe. This invasion was the act of Adolf Hitler to destroy Poland because he wanted more land for Germany. This was a brutal invasion, taking out all of Poland and less than a month and was essentially the start of the horrors to the holocaust. -
The battle of Britain was a huge event in World War II, when the British Royal Air Force had took down the UK against the German Air Force attacks they had planned on Britain. This battle started on July 10 lasting till October 31 in 1940, making this the first time Nancy Germany would be in. -
Beginner on December 7, 1941. This attack began at 7:55 AM and lasted an hour and 15 minutes. This bombing started when Japan wanted to destroy the US pacific Fleet and all the American battleships so that Japan could collect their resources like oils and minerals for their expansion to Asia -
The battle of Midway began on June 4, 1942. This battle was the naval battle that the U.S. Navy defeated the imperial Japanese army. the Japanese soldiers plan to destroy the U.S back fired quickly when the US was already a step ahead of them. The US forces ambushed Japan, destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers then crushing Japan’s expansion. The dominance of Japan ended and were then forced to the defense for the rest of the World War II. -
The battle of Stalingrad was the battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany army through the control of Stalingrad. This battle lasted roughly 5 months from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. The Soviet Union had defeated the German six army and left destroyed or captured -
Operation torch was one of the first invasions of World War II. This battle was an Allied invasion occurring in November 8th 1942. This was a battle led by Dwight D Eisenhower an consisted of the US an the British forces landing in North Africa in hopes to open a second warfront to push German forces away from the Soviet Union. -
The battle of Kursk began on July 5 of 1943 and ended on August 23, 1943. This was a battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union of Russia. It was Hitler’s official fail to going initiative on the eastern front and one of the largest tank battles in history. German was defeated and very soon permanently retreated. -
D-Day was a crazy turning point in US history. June 6, 1944 marks the day of a massive invasion where allied forces set off operation overload and consisted of over 156,000 American British and Canadian troops to create a second forcing Germany into losing two front wars -
The battle of Bulge began December 16, 1944. This battle was one of the last major battles from Germany to the Western front in World War II. This was one of the biggest and deadliest battles for the US Army. -
The battle of Iwo Jima started on February 19, 1945 and ended March 26, 1945. This battle was one where the US Marines and Navy forces decided to invade the Japan held Island. This battle was quoted one of the bloodiest battles in the US Marine corpse history it left 7000 US Marines killed in 20,000 wounded, and a lot of Japan was killed off to and roughly 200 were taken as prisoners too. The Marines did this to secure they airfield for the American B-29 bombers -
The battle on Okinawa happened on April 1, 1945 it lasted till June 22, 1945. This battle was one of the largest battles of the Pacific war and consisted of Allied forces capturing an island 350 miles from Japan for base at the final invasion over 12,000 US soldiers died while about 100,000 Japanese soldiers and, 150,000 Okinawa civilians were also lost in war mostly due to force fighting caught in the crossfire and even atomic bombs -
The death of Franklin Roosevelt occurred on April 12, 1945 at the age of 63 due to a stroke Franklin Roosevelt was our 32nd president and led his nation through the Great Great Depression and World War II serving his four-year term from 1933 to 1945 -
The Death of Adolf Hitler happened on April 30, 1945 Hitler often struggled with health and drug issues and after seeing the mocking and execution of Benito Mussolini Hitler soon took his life to save himself from being captured an publicly humiliated as well -
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima occurred on August 6, 1945 when the United States decided to bomb Hiroshima by a plane named “Enola Gay” dropping the bomb “little man” this is the first ever atomic weapon dropped in roughly 140,000 dead at the end -
The bombing of Nagasaki was followed three days after the bombing of Hiroshima on August 9, 1945. This one was a plutonium weapon called fat man this weapon dropped left no choice but for Japan to surrender after roughly 40,000 to 75,000 more deaths occurred
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