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German Blitzkreig
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. Developed in Germany in 1918 and used throughout 1939. Was used to capture all of Poland and other parts of Europe. Germany used it a lot. -
German Blitzkreig
The main reason it was used was because it was quick. It limited human lives and saved Germany artillery supplies. Basically it was cheap and saved money for war.The main effects of German Blitzkrieg was the quick, easy, and cheap way to take cities and countries. Blitzkrieg also saved lives of German military which in turn made them last longer in the war. It saved money so Germany didn't go as broke. It made them spend less time during battles which let them move on to the next on quicker. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet. two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. On August 22, 1939, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) flew from Berlin to Moscow. He was soon inside the Kremlin, face-to-face with Stalin and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 at 4:45, 1.5 million German troops invade Poland along its 1,750 mile long border. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Two days later Germany led by Adolfo Hitler declared war on Poland. Employing a military strategy known as the blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” armored divisions smashed through enemy lines and isolated segments of the enemy, who were captured. -
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This happened because Hitler wanted control of Poland. Mostly he wanted control because of his despise for homosexuals and Jews. Concentration camps were build for the murder of these humans. Nearly 3 million Polish Jews were murdered. Germany and Russia were allies in the defeat of Poland. The effects of this event were that Germany and Russia soon became enemy's as Germany broke their nonaggression deal with Russia. Also this event triggered the death of 3 million polish Jews. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. It evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slaves. Some prisoners were also subjected to barbaric medical experiments led by Josef Mengele, often leading to death. -
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More than 1 million people lost their lives at Auschwitz. Auschwitz happened because Hitler needed a place to murder all the people he didn't like who was mostly Jews. Concentration camps were build for this reason. Auschwitz was the biggest one that was built. What happened there was mostly murders by gas, but also slavery occurred and experiments were done on these people. The Effects Auschwitz had on the world was the murder of over a million people. -
Fall of Paris
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet. -
USSR in WWII
Between June 1941 and May 1945, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union engaged in a cataclysmic struggle on World War II’s Eastern Front. The resulting war was one of the largest and deadliest military duels in all of human history. Germany’s invasion of Russia was the largest surprise attack in military history. While the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany had signed a famous non-aggression pact in August 1939.German troops killed or wounded 150,000 Soviets in the first week of the campaign -
Wannsee Conference
In January 1942, Eichmann met with top Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin for the purpose of planning a “final solution of the Jewish question". The Nazis decided to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population. Eichmann was appointed to coordinate the identification, assembly, and transportation of millions of Jews from occupied Europe to the Nazi death camps, where Jews were gassed or worked to death. Eichmann was very efficient in his works. -
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Adolf Hitler, Eichmann and all of the Nazis needed to find the best way to exterminate Jews and other humans that they thought were unfit to live. At the conference they came up with the idea of gas chambers. Also they thought of working their prisoners to death. The main reason for the Wannsee Conference was a plan of attack.The main effect of the Wannsee Conference was the murder of 3 Million Jews, and other people. The sole purpose for the conference was to kill -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. The battle of midway happened because Japan wanted control of the Pacific. The battle was a surprise start because the U.S had a ship see the Japan ships before Japan... -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), 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 and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. This battle happened because Germany wanted to take control of the city -
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Russia knew this in time so they prepared for the fight. It lasted months but Russia held them off long enough to make them surrender because germans were surrounded and starving and cold. This was a major turning point in world war 2 and really hit Germany hard in the deaths.The result of this battle was 2 million military and civilian deaths of both sides. It resulted in the starving of Germans. The death by cold because of winter. Also a huge loss for Germany. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944 the allies invade Western Europe in the largest attack in history. During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as 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. -
Battle of The Bulge
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. A crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of the Ardennes proved fatal to Hitler’s ambition to snatch, if not victory, at least a draw with the Allies in the west. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 death -
Dropping The Atomic Bomb
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. Five and a half hours later, “Little Boy” was dropped, exploding 1,900 feet over a hospital and unleashing the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast -
The Liberation of Concentration Camps continued
The murdered people in cold blood, so the U.S over ran it and stopped what was happening their.The effects the liberation of camps had were the killings ceased. No more gassing Jews or working them to death. No more starving Jews happened either, they were able to get medical treatment and eat regularly too. The biggest impact of the liberation of Dachau was that the training of solders for the German army stopped. -
The Holocaust continued
The holocaust happened because Adolf Hitler had a hatred for many people and thought it as his job to kill them. The effects the holocaust had was over 6 million deaths. -
The Liberation of Concentration Camps
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. Many of the SS guards abandoned the camp. On April 29, the Dachau main camp was liberated by units of the 45th Infantry after a brief battle with the camp’s remaining guards.The liberation of concentration camps happened because the U.S and the forces against Germany found out what they were doing in these camps. Dachau was the first camp. -
The Holocaust
The mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps. -
Post Tramatic Stress Disorder in WWII Veterans
The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam. By 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict. Growing opposition to the war in the United States led to bitter divisions among Americans, both before and after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973.
