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Munich Pact
Was a aggrement with Germany that they would get the spanish speaking Sudentenland. This was a way of appeasment to Hitler but if they gave him what he wanted then he promised in the agreement to to stop trying to take over other countries. The significance to this would be Hitler and keeping his word to this pact he made. -
Germany Invades Poland
There was a non-agression act signed between Germany and Russia but then it was broke when Both countries decided to attack Poland and make a two front war.Germany Attacked poland from the west and Russia attacked from the East. -
Germany invades Belgium
The German invasion plan for France called for an attack through Belgium, instead of through the heavily defended Franco-German border. Belgium was neutral and its neutrality was protected by treaty with Great Britain. The Germans attacked. The next day, Great Britain declared war on Germany -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest aerial bombing. This war happened because Germnay was trying to take control all over Europe. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. Of these eight damage, six battleships returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship.It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Battle of Coral Sea
Was a massive naval battle in the Pacific of World War II between the Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. This was the first action in which aircrafts engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon each other. -
Germany attacks Russia
The operation, driven by Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer the Russian territories, marked the beginning of the pivotal phase in deciding the victors of the war. 4 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along the largest invasion in the history of warfare. This resulted in resulted in 95% of all German Army casualties. -
D-Day
D-Day was the day of the actual landing, which was dependent on final approval.The landings were conducted in two pieces, an airborne assault, and an amphibious landing.A key success was to convince Adolf Hitler that the landings would actually occur to the north near Calais was using code names that they could decifer but to use it to there advantage. -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. After all of the island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. Two marine divisions fought on the shore but two remained out in the waters and never touched land. -
Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II. These events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. This was done because the fact that the japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor so this was in a way the counter attack besides the dolittle raids.
