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1944 BCE
D-day
Allied Forces invade northern France on beach Normandy. One of the bloodiest battled ever and long too. Largest seaborn invasion ever . Also known as Operation Neptune. -
1940 BCE
Germany Invaded France and Captured Paris
Also known as the Battle of France. France pushed in on Germany because the Nazis after they attacked Poland. Later on, France surrenders. -
Gernany Invades Poland
Hitler invaded Poland to create "lebensraum" also known as living space. It was part of Hitler's push to get every other race cleansed from the Earth. After, he signed the non-aggression pact to make it seem like it wasn't much. -
Germany Bombed London
Also known as The Blitz, The German Bombing campaign held in 1940. They used to push the British with lightning fast warfare. It led to the Battle of Britain .. the 1st air battle. -
US gave Britain war supplies
The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States. It was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
Operation Barbarossa
The axis invasion of the Soviet Union . A crucial turning point as the Germans failed . Tanks/backups were being used. -
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes decided to do a surprise attack on the US. Causing our first ever bombing on The US. Later that day, The US joined ww2. -
Germany/US/Japan War
Hitler was scared that the US would launch an attack first. So he decided to attack the US.. after seeing the Pearl Harbor bombing . He believed Japan was stronger than the US at the time. -
Bataan Death March
76,000 prisoners marched free a lot of miles and eventually died protesting. They ran from camps where they were beaten and much more . -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942. It only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Soviet Union Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II. It’s in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded first -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
An act of Jewish resistance . They’d deport to do diff countries if alive . Cops raided ghettos for little to no reason at all. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944. -
Battle Of the Bulge
Last major German offense . 19,276 were killed . Nearing the war’s end . -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle. It was in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
US BOMBS
US gets revenge on Japan for Pearl Harbor . They drop two big nukes on Japan . There names were Hiroshima and Nagasaki . It forced Japan to surrender .
