WW2 1945

By flynns17

  • Soviets overrun killing centers

    • Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor
    • day and month are unkown only know that it was in the summer of 1944
    • Germans had already dismantled these camps, though, after killing most of the Jews in Poland

  • The Battle of the Bulge

    • Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe through surprise attacks -Allies were surprised causing American units to fight desperate battles to stem German advance at St. Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize, and Bastogne. -Germans drove deeper into Ardennes to secure vital bridgeheads -But, Americans took hold of a large bulge → US General had a successful maneuver of the Third Army to Bastogne important to Allied defense -Led to the neutralization of German counter

  • The Battle of Budapest

    • 50 day long encirclement of the Hungarian capital - Budapest by Soviet forces
    • Siege began when Hungarian and German troops (defenders of Budapest) were encircled by the Red Army and Romanian Army
    • 38,000 civilians died of starvation during the siege from starvation and military action
    • Strategic victory for the Allies in their push to Berlin
    • Budapest unconditionally surrendered Feb 13

  • The Battle of Konigsberg

    • AKA Konigsberg Offensive
    • Oe of the last operations of the East Prussian Offensive in WWII
    • Usage of violent urban warfare
    • Soviet forces were able to capture Konigsberg in Hermany
    • Between Germany and Soviet Union
    • Germans surrendered to the Soviets after a 3 day assault made it impossible for them to continue

  • Soviets liberated Auschwitz

    largest killing center and concentration camp in January 1945. Soviet soldiers found found thousands of emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camps.

  • The Battle of Meiktila

    • Allies were able to deploy large armoured and mechanised forces in central Burma
      • Also had supremacy in the air (planes...)
    • Most Japanese forces in the Burma were destroyed for allowing the Allies to capture the capital, Rangoon, and reoccupy the country
    • Battle of between the UK and British India - Japan an Azad Hind

  • Yalta Conference

    • It was the second war-time meeting between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • In the conference, the three talked and agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and begin planning a post-war world
    • Most of these plans were initially kept secret but when people heard about who was part of the conference, it became a very controversial subject because the two had disagreements on communism vs. democracy

  • Liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    U.S. forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. This was a few days after Nazis started evacuating the camps. American soldiers liberated over 20,000 prisoners.

  • British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camps and Neuengamme

    • 60,000 were found alive
    • over 10,000 of them died within weeks of liberation

  • Death of Benito Mussolini (Italian)

    He was executed by italian partisans while attempting to flee to Spain

  • Death of Hitler

    Committed suicide by taking a cyanide capsule (poisoned himself) and shot himself in the head in his bunker along with his mistress.

  • Final German Surrender

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl (once a mighty commander of Nazis) marched into the Supreme Allied Headquarters in Reims, France to sign the German Surrender (the official end to the war in Europe)
    surrendered under the document all of the Third Reich’s remaining land, sea and air forces were to cease hostilities and lay down their weapons on or before11:01 p.m. on May 8. As expected, the vast majority of war weary Axis personnel in Europe obeyed the orders. Yet in a number of locations, small pocket

  • Berlin Declaration

    • Declaration regarding the defeat of germany and that the u.s, soviets, u.k and the french wil have supreme authority over germany in relation to government
    • confirmed the continued existence of the german reich as a whole (including the eastern territories)
    • divided allied occupied germany into 4 occupation zones as expressed in the yalta conference
      • an smerican zone, british zone, french zone, and soviet zone

  • Postdam Conference

    • major issue was not knowing what to do with germany
    • last of the ww2 meetings held by the "big three"
      • truman, attlee, stalin
    • Secret conference on how to end the war
    • issued a declaration demanding "unconditional surrender" from japan
    • established military administration of germany
      • with a central allied control council
    • came to agreements on german economy
      • placed primary emphasis on development of agriculture and non military industry

  • Treaty to End War with Germany

    The Allied powers wrote the treaty and accepted
    Allowed Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland to resume state of sovereign states and to qualify for the UN
    Included war reparations
    Outlined the end of the Italian Colonial Empire in Africa, Greece, and Albania