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*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
*Expelled 1000s of Poles and replace them with Germans
*This started WW2 -
*It was the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain.
*This was the result of the Allies losing the Battle of France on the Western front.
*A series of Allied counterattacks didn’t work against the Germans.
*More than 330,000 Allied troops were rescued.
*It enabled the Allies to continue the war and was a major boost the British morale. -
*The Japanese air force preformed a surprise bombing on the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor.
*It happened in Honolulu, Hawaii. Where pearl harbor is located.
*Japan did this to prevent the U.S. from interfering with their military plans.
*353 imperial Japanese aircrafts were involved.
*All 8 of the U.S. warships were damaged.
*4 U.S. warships sunk.
*It brought the U.S. into WW2 -
*It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater.
*It was between the U.S. and the Japanese.
*It was supposed to be a surprise attack on the U.S. from the Japanese.
*But the U.S. found out about it early and planned their ambush on the Japanese.
*It marked a turning point of the military struggle between the two countries. -
*Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
*The battle was a lot of bloody close-quarters combat, and direct assaults on civilians in air raids.
*It was the deadliest battle in WWll.
*It had an estimated 2 million casualties.
*Russia won the battle.
*It put Hitler and the Axis powers on the defensive. -
*It was codename for the “Battle or Normandy”.
*It involved a 1,200-plane airborne assault.
*A 5,000-vessel amphibious assault.
*160,000 troops crossed the English Channel.
*More than 2 million allied troops were in France by the end of August.
*It resulted in the Allied powers capturing Western Europe from the Nazi’s control. -
*It was an offensive operation by the Soviet Union.
*The Soviets attacked Berlin from the East and South.
*The Soviets were nicknamed the “Red Army”.
*They gradually took over the entirety of Berlin.
*It was between the Soviets and the Nazi army.
*It ends WWll.