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Japanese Invasion Of China
The Japanese invaded China in July of 1937 on account of them saying China had bombed them. They quickly went through and took over most of China's major cities with little resistance from organized forces. The Japanese showed no mercy and slaughter millions of civilians on the rampage through China. Resistance finally started to take place later on when guerrilla forces trained by communist Mao and supplied by western forces began to fight back the Japanese. -
German Invasion Of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The first stared with air bombing raids over Warsaw, then followed by infantry attacks. Moving n front of the German lines the Luftwaffe bombed rail and road junctions and concentrations of polish troops. Towns and villages were deliberately bombed to produce civilian havoc and clutter to road ways for incoming Polish troops. -
German Blitzkrieg
In the first part of the second world war in Europe Germany wanted to avoid a long war. Germany's game plan was to defeat its enemies in a series of short Battles. Germany overran most of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military strategy called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics are the concentration of offensive weapons and artillery (such as tanks and planes) along a narrow front. These armies would run a breach in enemy defenses -
German Blitzkreig Continued
and planes) along a narrow front. These armies would run a breach in enemy defenses, allowing armored tank divisions to attack rapidly and run freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and confusion among the enemy defenses. German air power prevented the enemy from receiving supplies or redeploying forces and from Adding reinforcements to set breaches in the front. Blitzkrieg was one of Germany's many plans for success. It was chosen to be sneaky and leave an impact of the opponent.http://www.u -
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Fall of Paris
Otherwise known as the Fall of France, the Fall of Paris began as the Germans quickly began an attack on the French after they defeated Poland. They used the lightning war technique to win France over. With suck a fast attack it caught the allied forces off guard and let the Germans advance farther, the British eventually pulled out and then evacuated France, the Germans then took over France. There were little resistance groups in France for fear the Germans would harm civilians. -
Operation Barbarosa
from his leaders that Germany could not fight the war on two fronts Hitler became convinced that England was holding out against German assaults. He refused to surrender because of a secret deal with Russia. Hitler worried he would be Attacked from the East and the West so he created in December 1940 "Directive No. 21: Case Barbarossa." This was the plan to invade and control the same nation he had actually asked to join a month ahead of time. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germ -
Operation Barbarossa
Despite the fact that Germany and Russia had signed a "pact" in 1939 each promised the other a specific region without interference from the other. When the Soviet Union invaded Rumania in 1940. Hitler saw a threat to his Balkan oil supply so he immediately responded by moving two armored and 10 infantry divisions into Poland. Placing a counterthreat to Russians Hitler was a force to wreck with. But what began as a defensive move turned into a plan for a German first-strike. Without warnings -
Pearl Harbor Continued
The second wave farther destroyed the navy yard and ships that were in dry dock, no aircraft carriers where hit because they were all out to see. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was the first attack on American soil made by the Japanese, it was on December 7, 1941. The United States was unprepared for this attach because the commanders of the Pacific Fleet were all told that there was no threat from the Japanese to America. The Japanese attacked in two waves, first targeting the airfields and then ships moored at "battleship row" where torpedoed. -
Wannsee Conference
This conference was on January 20, 1942, and was between the high officials of the Nazi party. They had this conference to discuss what they would do with all of the Jews, the final solution was created in which all of the Jews of Europe would be transported east to ghettos and then to labor or extermination camps. They discussed the amount of Jews in every country in Europe and on how they would treat half Jews and other things like it. -
Bataan Death Match continued
However, after two days 75,000 Allied troops were trapped by the Japanese and forced to surrender. The next day, the Bataan Death March began. Of the men who survived to reach the Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan, few lived to celebrate U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's liberation of Luzon in 1945. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bataan-death-march-begins -
Bataan Death Match
The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor the Japan invaded the Philippines After only a month the Japanese had captured Manila the capital of the Philippines. The U.S. and Filipino defenders of Luzon were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For three months and combined U.S. an Filipino army under control of the U.S. On April 7, with a army crippled by starvation and diseases as many troops as possible approach the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay. -
Battle of Midway Continued
successfully defended their territory in Chinas mainlands until 1945. This was the initial cause for the Americans bombing Japan along with the attack on Pearl Harbor. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005155%20%5Ct%20_blank -
Battle of Midway
The turning point in the Pacific war came with the American navy victory in the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The Japanese fleet took heavy losses and retreated. In August 1942 American forces attacked the Japanese in the Solomon Islands forcing Japans withdrawal of Japanese forces from the island of Guadalcanal in February 1943. Allied forces gained naval and air dominance in the Pacific and moved from island to island capturing them but took heavy casualties in the process. The Japanese -
Battle of Stalingrad Continued
They then just keep them in there all winter until they surrendered to the Russians. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_stalingrad.htm -
Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler saw the city of Stalingrad as a place to defeat and make the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin, loss face beings the city is named after him. Taking down stain grad would give the Germans more oil supplies and take down communication for the Russians. As the Germans attacked in the city, combat was changed into hand to hand against the Russians, the Russian army surrounded the city with the Germans trapped inside and cut them off from previously captured lands. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Continued
assured the remaining Jews that their families and friends were being sent to work camps word soon circled and the Jews were told of where their friends and family really were.An underground resistance group was formed in the ghetto. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-ends -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
In Poland 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto uprising comes ended as Nazi soldiers gain control of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Shortly after the German raid of Poland began, the Nazis forced the city's Jewish citizens into a "ghetto" surrounded by barbed wire and armed SS guards. The Warsaw Ghetto held almost 500,000 Jews in poor facilities. Disease and starvation killed thousands every month, and beginning in July 1942, 6,000 Jews a day were moved to the Treblinka concentration camp. Although the Nazis -
Operation Gomorrah
On July 24, 1943, British bombers start raids on Hamburg, Germany and other major cities. The British used a radar jamming devise called "window" which consisted of pieces of foil that were dropped to confuse to radar, it made it look like there were hundreds of aircraft flying around. There was over 9000 pounds of explosive dropped by the British onto Germany by November of that year. -
D- Day Continued
than allowed. As we stormed the beaches hundreds of men were lost some not even stepping foot on the beach due to machine gunners mowing them down out of bunkers. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005137%20%5Ct%20_blank -
D- Day
June 6, 1944 D-Day to most of the american population. A massive military operation over 150,000 Allied soldiers landed in France. On September 11, 1944 the first US troops crossed into Germany. In December the Germans launched an unsuccessful counterattack in Belgium and northern France. Allied air forces attacked Nazi industrial plants such as the one at the Auschwitz camp. This was the major start of the war where they're two sides fighting for a cause vs just the nazis taking over more land -
Battle of Bulge
On December 16th 1944 the Germans deploy 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault. 14 German infantry divisions guarded by five panzer divisions against a small 80,000 American army. Their assault came in early morning at the weakest part of the Allied line of an 80-mile stretch of hilly, woods. The accessibility of the thin unmatched American units and the thick fog that prevented Allied air cover from noticing German movement, the Germans were able to push the Americans into retreat. This -
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attack was a wise move by the German army but had close to 1/4 of their army either die, become wounded or captured during the 3 week war fight. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge -
Operation Thunderclap
The operation started the night of 13 February with two separate British raids. The first attack was delivered by 244 Lancasters dropping more than 800 tons of bombs. This attack was some what successful. The inhabitants of the city were surprised with a second attack three hours later by 529 Lancasters delivering a further 1,800 tons of bombs. http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com/ContentPages/ContentPage.aspx?entryId=1145277¤tSection=1130224&productid=3 -
Battle of Iwo Jima
In 1944 American forces captured the Philippines and began air attacks on Japan. British forces recaptured Burma. In early 1945 American forces took heavy losses in the invasions of Iwo Jima (February) an island of importance off the coast of the Japanese home islands. Despite these casualties and suicidal Japanese air attacks, also known as Kamikaze attacks, American forces captured Iwo Jima in June 1945. This was Americas way of fighting back after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. -
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It killed over 120,000 citizens between the bombs we dropped and the radiation poising. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005155%20%5Ct%20_blank -
Battle of Okinawa Continued
The Americans landed and came into contact with several Japanese lines but eventually broke through, after a major counter attack the Japanese failed to hold the island and Japanese commander, Ushijima, committed suicide. Both sides suffered heavy losses -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa was an island in southern Japan that the Americans needed because of its four air strips so they could then start bombing mainland Japan. The Americans believe there were bat 65,000 Japanese troops. The island when there was actually about 130,00. The Japanese commander moved all of his troops to the southern part of the island in anticipation of an American attack. Japan relied heavily on kamikaze attaches on the American warships and sank 21 of them in the attack. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, the official need to World War Two in Europe. German General Jodl signed an unconditional surrender, but the ended was never publicly announced until the following day because of different views between the three allied powers on how to announce it. Celebrations in Britain took place until just before midnight when they were stopped by a thunderstorm. -
Dropping Of Atomic Bombs
An American bomber, Enola Gay, dropped a five ton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the blast was equivalent of 15,000 pounds of TNT, three days later another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The total destruction added up to about 120,000 deaths in the city and over 6 square miles of land demolished. A few days later Japan surrendered to the USA. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
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we were looking for in the states and was calibrated accordingly. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vj-day -
VJ Day
September 2nd 1945 Japanese troops surrender to Americans on the Caroline Mariana and Palau islands. leaders of their empire were preparing to surrender . In Tokyo Bay aboard the Navy battleship USS Missouri the Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and the chief of staff of the Japanese army Yoshijiro Umezu signed the "instrument of surrender." Among others in attendance was Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright who took command of the forces in the Philippians. This was the victory over Japan -
Hitler and the American Dream Continued
The standards of living were increasing in Germany, but for the other countries that were ruled by Nazi Germany, things were a little bit different, they were forced to follow Hitler's regime. Just because they were not "German" they were treated with less respect then people that lived in Germany even though they were all ruled by the same person.
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countries, the people were free for ne and they weren't forced to follow anything, and mostly everyone was treated the same. The people in the countries ruled by Hitler wanted to be as free as the western countries like America, we consider this the American Dream. I think the American Dream is being able to live free and not forced to do anything they don't want to do, and that's what these countries wanted. -
Hitler and the American Dream
Hitler and the American Dream
In Nazi Germany whenever it was ruled by Hitler, things were a lot different then the way we live now. During this time the people of Germany fully backed Hitler and what he said was right, although there were some people who didn't back him. For the people that lived in Germany, everything was going good, the economy was getting better and confidence in the government, which has a lot to do with the economy and how much people spend money, was increasing.
