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Invasion of Poland
*Germany uses blitzkrieg to overpower Polish army
*Britain & France declare war on Germany
*Make it to Warsaw (capital of Poland) in less than a month
*Germany begins enforcing racial policies
*Jews had to wear white armbands with blue Stars of David
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Battle of Moscrow Picture
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Battle of Dunkirk
• Germany Invaded the Netherlands
• They used Air born forces, causing the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France to surrender in a few days• he evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England.
• France was falling rapidly, and by the 14th and 15th of May, the main German Force Had moved into the River Meuse.
• The French had no strategic -
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Battle of Moscrow
• German forces crosses the soviet border
• They used the blitz creg tactics
• After four months the Germans were already almost at the heart of the city
• Hitler had one millon men, One thousand seven hundred tanks and 30 thousand altrly guns
• The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting -
Battle of Dunkirk Picture
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Japanese navy air service attacked Pearl Harbor
• USA stayed out of the war until the attack
• Before Japanese attacked, On November 20th Japan proposed to withdraw from Indochina and China if the USA would stop aiding China
• The USA gave the “hall note” that required Japan to leave China without any conditions but before they got this not their military were already on its way to pearl harbor
• Japan attacked the USA because they were in the way of taking over another country -
Attack on Pearl Harbor picture
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Battle of Kursk picture
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Battle of Kursk
• Larges tank battle in war history
• Panzers tear through the Russians lines, shocking the whole army
• Thousands of soviet plans are destroyed still on the ground
• Hundreds and thousands of soviet shoulders are captured and sent to German work camps
• Germany attacked the villagers saying “Not even a human race” -
Operation OverLord/D-Day picture
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Battle of Leyte Gulf picture
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Operation OverLord/D-Day
• America attacked at night
• the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe.
• At dawn on 6 June, nearly 7,000 U.S. and British ships and craft carrying close to 160,000 troops lay off the Normandy beaches
• The operation, given the codename OVERLORD,
• The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
• The Americans have pushed the Japanese steadily back, their losses in Peral harbor were quickly replaced
• Americans lunched an invasion into Mariana Islands
• The attack left the Japanese with little to no air power
• The fight was going on for three years
• The Japanese navy had two super battleships, they were full of guns.