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German Blitzkrieg
Its a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Why it happened: To prevent repetition of the attritional deadlock of Effect/Impact: best understood as a post facto construction for explaining a complex structure of events and ideas. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan decided to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor, putting the six airfields out of commission. Bombs, torpedoes, machine gun and cannon fire erupted from every angle and billowing black smoke choked the air. Why: Japan's occupation of part of French Indo-China was greeted with an oil embargo by the Americans, Effect/Impact: The invention of the most dangerous nuke -
Operation Barbarossa
What: numerous speeches Adolf Hitler claimed that the German population needed more living space. Hitler's Lebensraum policy was mainly directed at the Soviet Union. He was especially interested in the Ukraine where he planned to develop a German colony Why:Hitler intended to force Norwegians, Swedes and Danes to move to these territories in the East. Effect/Impact: a message reminding him that no German field marshal had ever been captured -
Wannsee Conference
who declared that he was the plenipotentiary for the "final solution of the Jewish question. He then reviewed the emigration problem. Heydrich admitted that there had been a plan to deport all Jews to the island of Madagascar but it didnt happen so they tried to exterminate them. Why: since these people, representing a natural selection, are to be regarded as the germ cell of a new Jewish development Effect/Impact: This shook everyone outside of germany of what they did -
Battle of Stalingrad
What: brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers why:Russian troops had retaken Stalingrad and captured nearly 100,000 German soldiers Effect/Impact: Retaken Staligard -
Battle of Midway
What: U.S. and Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers Why: to draw out the American fleet Effect/Impact: Midway as the turning point in the Pacific theater of the war -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
When: in Poland that all Jews were to be confined to special areas in cities and towns. These ghettos were to be surrounded by barbed wire, brick walls and armed guards. Why:Jews living in rural areas had their property confiscated and they were rounded up and sent to ghettos in towns and cities. The two largest ghettos were established in Warsaw and Lodz. Effect: After the Polish surrender the German Army began to systematically to destroy the surviving buildings in Warsaw. -
D-Day
What happen: the first US troops crossed into Germany, one month after Soviet troops crossed the eastern border Why : Because they were able to liberate France Impact/Effect: A great victory to america -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
When: Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe with a surprise attack why: attempt to secure vital bridgeheads Effect/Impact: A close
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Battle of Iwo Jima
What: men and ships were involved in this amphibious operation under the command of Admiral Richmond Turner. why:A small place was being defended by veterans of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Force. Effect/Impact:Us is able to use the island to launch bombing attacks on japan -
Battle of Okinawa
What: Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan Why: American forces were still painstakingly conquering Japan’s Home Islands, one after another Effect/Impact:Showed japan who they were messing with -
VE Day
What: General Alfred Jodl would sign the official surrender of Nazi Germany Why: large and little, joined in cacophonously with their raucous or piping notes, and searchlights flashed out V in morse across the sky -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
What: However, the advice was ignored by Harry S. Truman, the USA's new president, and he decided to use the bomb on Japan. Why: Japan did not surrender immediately and a second bomb was dropped Effect/Impact: A creation that is so powerful it is rarely use -
VJ Day
What: Allies celebrated victory over Japan , although the Japanese administration under General Koiso did not officially surrender with a signed document until 2 September why: threat of war in the east get really bad when Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany Effect/Impact: Its a mark that the war finally ended -
Liberation of concentration camps
What: concentration camps were also places of appalling suffering and death, targeted mainly jewish people Why: Because they blamed there lost on jewish people Effect/Impact: public opinion some indistinct awareness of the heinous crimes being committed by the Nazi Third Reich
