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Holocaust
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
The mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jew -
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Japansese Invasion of China
http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/camp/pac/china/w2c-inv.html
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war. Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese. The Japanese military was not only better armed and organized, they were also incredibly brutal. -
German Invasion Of Poland
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
-The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. This move was not popular with many germans that supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland recieved former Geran provinces. -
German Blitzkrieg
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437
Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. 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).Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland Germany proved unable to defeat the Soviet Union, which together wi -
Operation Sea Lion
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwarii/p/World-War-Ii-Operation-Sea-Lion.htm
In the summer of 1940, shortly after Germany's stunning conquest of France, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the final defeat of Britain. Somewhat surprised that London had rebuffed peace overtures -
Germany Invades soviet Union
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
-On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand mil -
Pearl Harbor
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died from the attack. -
Bataan Death March
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese gu -
Battle Of Coral Sea
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-coral-sea
The first air-sea battle in history and an engagement in which the lead role was played by aircraft launched from ships at sea, this battle resulted from Japanese efforts to make an amphibious landing at Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea. Unknown to the Japanese, Allied codebreakers had learned enough about enemy communications to discern Japanese plans -
Battle Of Midway
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to pre empt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union. -
D Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans -
Battle of the Bulge
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Its objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties.In December 1944, a major German offensive is launch -
Yalta Conference
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Germany Surrenders
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/may-7-1945-nazi-germany-surrenders-in-world-war-ii/?_r=0
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
VE Day
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more The Russians took approximately 2 million -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address -
Atomic bomb on Nagaski
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb. -
VJ Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Comin -
Cold War
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1881.html
Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world.
