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The Battle of the Bulge marked the last German offense on the Western Front. The catastrophic losses on the German side prevented Germany from resisting the advance of Allied forces following the Normandy Invasion. -
he United Kingdom declared war on Germany—two days after the German invasion of Poland. France also declared war on Germany later the same day. -
a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union. -
Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Luxembourg was occupied that same day. The Netherlands surrendered on 15 May, Belgium on the 28th. -
Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk -
It kept Nazi materials of war focused on Britain, steeled the will of the British people to find the war to the end, and demonstrated that the Nazis were not invincible -
provide our Nation with a structure and a system of guidelines which will provide the most prompt, efficient, and equitable draft possible, if the country should need it. -
set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." -
This unprovoked attack brought the United States into World War II, as it immediately declared war on Japan. -
helped to get the nation's economy back on its feet following the depression -
the nation became fully engaged in the Second World War. -
the world's first carrier-vs. -carrier battle, and the first naval battle in which neither side's ships sighted the others. -
stopped the growth of Japan in the Pacific and put the United States in a position to begin shrinking the Japanese empire -
The battle for North Africa was primarily a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia, but also an effort to drive Italy out of the war as a prelude to invasion of southern Europe and a planned bombing campaign against Germany. -
led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian government to the Allies. -
It led to the liberation of France, denying Germany any further exploitation of that country's economic and manpower resources. -
Helped put a end to the endured madness that had been going on to these poor innocent Jews. -
it divided Germany and Berlin into four allied zones -
mark the end of World War II in Europe -
caused global effects such as the Cold War and the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world -
caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II. -
marks the end of World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history.