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German Blitzkrieg
German forces would drive a breach in the enemy defenses, allowing armored tanks roam freely behind enemy lines. It caused shock and disorganization. Geman air power prevented the enemy from resuppliying or redploying forces. At first the Germans were succeeding by driving the Soviet forces back 600 miles, then Hitler declared a war on the U.S. causing extreme economic and military power against him. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adulf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, hree great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attcked the American at Pearl Harbor, destroying nearly 20 American navel vessles, 8 huge battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors were killed, another 1,000 weere injured.The day after the attack president Franklen D.Roosevelt asked to declare war on Japan and was approved. 3 days later Japanese allies germany, and Itally also declared war on th U.S. -
Wannsee Conference
Second in command of the S.S, Reinhard Heydrich convinced the Wannasee conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution, in whuch Nazis would attempt to kill the entire Jewish population of Europe, about 11 million people. -
Bataan Death March
75,000 Filipima and American troops om Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. They marched in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The successful Soviet defense of the city stopped the German advance into the Soviet union and marked the turning of the tied of war in favor of the Allies. It was one of the bloodies battles in history, with military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
Operation Thunderclap
A code for a cancelled operation. The plan was to have a massive attck on Berlin with a belief that it would cause 220,000 casualties, 110,000 killed. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline ti fight the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,00 ships and 13,000 aircrafts supported the D-Day invasion. More than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted tp split the Allied armies in Northwest Europe. American units faught desperate battles to stem on Dec. 16, 3 German armies launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the West in the poorly roaded, ragged heavily forested Ardennies. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defeated by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and Navy troops who fought from an eleberate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations. The marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. -
Battle oh Okinawa
The last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of WW2, involving the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth army against 130,000 soldiers of the 30-second army. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffured more than 65,000 casualties, 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
German troops around Europe finally laid down their arms. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonist, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans more, the Germans surrender. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz and found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners, the Germans had been forced to leave to leave behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. Also left behind were victims belongings:348,820 men's suits. 836,255 womens coats, and tens of thousands of pairs of shoes. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Enola Gay dropped a 5 ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed 80,000 people. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japn announces its surrender. -
VJ Day
The day it was announced that Japan had surrenered unconditionally to the Allies, ending WW2. Both August 14 and 15 has been knowen as "Victoryover Japan Day".
