WW2 Battle Timeline

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    Invasion of Poland

    -This Begins WW2
    -Germany uses Blitzkrieg to over power Polish army
    -Britain and France declare war on Germany
    -Make it to Warsaw(capitol of Poland) in less than a month
    -Germany enforces racial policies
    -Jews had to wear white armbands with blue stars of David
    -Expelled thousands of Poles and replace with Germans
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    Battle of Britain

    -Saved Britain from a ground invasion by Germany
    -Britain's defense against German air raids
    -Battle won by the Royal Air Force
    -Fought with mainly aircrafts
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    -Brings U.S. onto WW2
    -Surprise air attack on the U.S. naval base
    -Damaged or destroyed 19 U.S. ships
    -Japan didn't want U.S. to interfere with their military plans
    -Japan needed more natural resources
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    -Turned the tide WW2 in the pacific
    -Battle between the U.S. navy and Japanese navy
    -Fought using aircrafts
    -U.S. destroys Japan's first line carrier
    -This ended the the threat of Japanese invasion in the pacific
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    -Turns the tide of the war for the allies
    -Military battle between Russian forces against Germany and axis powers
    -Germany targeted Stalingrad for the industrial factories
    Stopped German advance into the Soviet Union
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    Operation Overlord/D-Day

    -Beginning of the liberation of German occupied west Europe
    -Simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on 5 beaches in Normandy
    -Liberated northern France
    -Move into Germany with Soviet Forces
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    -Contributed to the end of WW2
    -U.S. develops atomic bomb after 4 years
    -Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima killing 70,000 people
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    -Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki killing between 35,000 and 40,000 people