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Battle of Khalkhin Gol
The Battle of Khalkhin Gol was the decisive engagement of the Soviet-Japanese Border War. Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931, this was considered the beginning of WW2. -
Anti-semitism
this party came to be and made it so all Jews had to wear a star and had to be noticed. all Jewish people were dicriminated against. -
The Holocaust
all Jews were sent off to camp to be put to hard labor, killed, and tourtured. -
The Battle of France
after hitler invaded poland, he wanted to move on to frace. -
germany invades poland
germany invades poland, france and britain delcare war on germany -
Battle of Britain
If the United Kingdom was knocked out in the war, Hitler could have focused all of Germany’s military might on the Soviet Union. The Americans and Soviets would have to fight the Axis alone, and the British Isles could not have been used as a staging point for Operation Overlord. -
Stalingrad
four million troops poured over the Russian border. Within one month, over two and half million Russians had been killed, wounded or captured -
Operation Barbarossa
The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, ended with the Battle of Moscow -
Battle of Moscow
Hitler invaded moscow russia. this was always his plan from the start -
Battle of Midway
a four day battle fought between aircraft based on giant aircraft carriers, the U.S. destroyed hundreds of Japanese planes and regained control of the Pacific. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Allies had been on the defensive in the Pacific Theatre. The offensive capability of the Japanese had been reduced following the naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway. -
Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk took place after the Battle of Stalingrad, and was the final offensive the Germans were able to launch in the east. -
D-Day
general Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord commenced with the Normandy landings in June of 1944. By August, there were more than 3 million Allied troops in France. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
the Americans had breached Japan’s inner defensive ring and had bases that could be used by B-29 Superfortresses to bomb the Japanese home islands. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more.
