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Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ruler their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler wanted to wage war. This would be known as the blitzkrieg strategy. -
A Polish submarine named Orzel sunk a German ship off the Norwegian coast. With all the shock from the attack on Narvik, the local garrison commander assumed that they were British ships and troops landing to help the Norwegians.German warships enter major Norwegian ports and started deploying troops to occupy Norway. This is important because the Control of Norway's extensive coastline would have been very important in the battle for control of the North Sea. -
The Blitzkrieg was a surprise attack from the Germans using rapid overwhelming force concentration that consisted of armored and motorized infantry and close air support. This is important because the Control of Norway's extensive coastline would have been very important in the battle for control of the North Sea and easing the passage of German warships and submarines into the Atlantic.
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Pearl harbor was the most important American naval base in the Pacific and home to the Pacific Fleet. the Japanese attack failed, because most of the aircraft carriers were not present at the time of the attack. The reason why it is important because there were 188 aircraft's and 19 Navy ships destroyed during the attack. this also brought the US into WW2. -
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, addressing the nation in a Joint Session in the House Chamber, asked Congress to declare war against Japan in response to the surprise attack against American naval facilities in and around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a day earlier. Roosevelt delivered this "Day of Infamy Speech." Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II. -
The US navy's victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base, dashed Japans hopes of getting rid of the US naval power, and it effectively turned the tide of World War 2. its important because Code-breakers were able to decipher Japanese naval code, allowing American leaders to anticipate Japanese maneuvers. The U.S. Navy was then able to launch a surprise attack on the larger Japanese fleet in the area. -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. But the Battle of Stalingrad ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin -
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the command of Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. The Germans who had been fed false information rushed troops to the area but were unable to prevent the allies from forming a solid bridgehead.It marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany's surrender. -
German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath. Admiral Donitz, whom Hitler had nominated as his successor, tried to reach agreement to surrender to the Western allies but to continue to fight the Russians. Admiral Donitz, offerred an unconditional surrender to the allies. Alfred Jodl, German chief of the operations staff of the Armed Forces High Command, signs an unconditional “Act of Military Surrender” and ceasefire on May 7, 1945. -
US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender.Japanese leaders said the bomb forced them to surrender because it was less embarrassing to say they had been defeated by a miracle weapon, formally ending the second world war.
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