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The Holocaust
The holocaust was the genocide, or mass destruction of the Jewish people. It was part of the, "final solution" which was the culmination of a decade of increasingly severe discriminatory measure. The survivors were relocated to various places including Israel, and the U.S. The coco muted during the holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminating hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied Eastern Europe entirely.(ushmm.org) -
German Blitzkrieg
A military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy force through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It happen because if executed successfully it result in the short military campaign preserves human lives and limits the expenditures of artillery. It helped the German with the invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940.(history.com) -
Germany Invasion of Poland
On September 1,1939, the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, decide to invade Poland even though his army was not yet at their fullest strength, and the German economy was still locked into peacetime production. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Adolfo Hitler claimed that the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France was not convince. On September 3,1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, initiating the start of World War II. -
USSR in World War 2
On August 23, 1939, Germany and the USSR signed a secret non-agression pact, called, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. This pact ensure that neither party would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party. This pact also include a secret protocol that divided territories with Germany. After the USSR invasion of Poland Stallin admitted existence of the secret protocol of the Nazi Soviet Pact; regarding the territory division. When hitler heard of this he launched an invasion on the USSR. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a concentration camp built by the German Nazi. In 1940 during World War 2. This concentration camp was the largest of them all. Auschwirz was initially supposed to be served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as salve labor. -
Fall of Paris
On May 10, 1940, the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. German forces defeated France forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germans. This meeting was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942. At the his meeting they were discussing the physical annihilation of the Jews. They called it the,"Final Solution". -
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 approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was one of the most important battles of World War II. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. The battle took place over four days between June 4th and June 7th in 1942. The Japanese formulated a plan to sneak up on the U.S. forces. They hoped to trap a number of the U.S. aircraft carriers in a bad situation where they could destroy them. However, American code breakers had intercepted a number of Japanese transmissions. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. It was a German offensive intended to drive a wedge between the American and British armies in France and the Low Countries and recapture the port of Antwerp in The Netherlands to deny the Allies use of the port facilities. -
Ghetto Uprise
On January 18, 1943, the Nazis entered the ghetto to prepare a group for transfer, a ZOB unit ambushed them. Fighting lasted for several days, and a number of Germans soldiers were killed before they withdrew. On April 19, Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler announced that the ghetto was to be emptied of its residents in honor of Hitler’s birthday the following day, and more than 1,000 S.S. soldiers entered the confines with tanks and heavy artillery. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Hitler. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. -
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur when a person has experience or witnessing a life-threatening events. During World War 2 about 15.2 percent of all male veterans (479,000 out of 3,140,000 who served in Vietnam) and 8.1 percent of women (610 out of 7,200) were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945 the United State President, Harry S. Truman, was disappointed with the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conferences demand for unconditional surrender. So he made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent pew hat he predicted would be a much greater loss of lives. If the U.S was to invade the Japanese mainland. Because of this attack there was a great number of Doctors and nurses that died.
