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Germany invaded Poland (German Blitzkrieg)
German forces ambushed Poland. Hitler wanted to gane more territory and wanted to rule Poland as well. The attack ultumently caused they world to go into WWII. -
Germany invaded France and captured Paris
German solders entered and attack the country of France. People in Paris where notified by alarms in the city Paris was taken over and imminently the Germany made rules for the citizens of Paris. :Source History.com -
Germany bombed London, and the Battle of Britain began
German soldiers bombed the city of London multiple times. German and British air forces attack over the skies in the United Kingdom. This intern did not allow Germany to take over the United Kingdom. source History.com -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” (History.com) -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was a secret code name for the Nazi army. This code was a invasion of the soviet union. The nazi army invaded the Soviet Union with thousands of nazi solders and tanks smashing through russia. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii that had a surprise attack by Japanese forces. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes through bombs or crashed into the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. source History.com -
Germany declares war on the United States
The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor answered that question. On December 8, Japanese Ambassador Oshima went to German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop to nail the Germans down on a formal declaration of war against America.(History.com) -
Bataan Death March
After japan bombed Peral harbor, the Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The Japanese forced people in these island to march 65 miles to a date camp and many on the way didn't make it this is why it is called Bataan Death March. -
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Battle Of Midway
The US was able to uncode the Japanese flight codes. Intern they found out that the Japanese were planning to bomb US aircraft carriers. The United States in Japan went into an aerial battle midway. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
People had to live in ghettos in horrible conditions. They had to removed them from some community and move them to concentration camps. -
D-Day
American, British, and Canadian troops captured five beaches on the coast of Normandy in France. They're able to defeat the Germans are able to regain France -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. History.com -
Liberation of concentration camps
On this day German concentration camps as well as British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps. They were liberated unfortunately the people that were severely sick stayed and eventually died in a couple of days. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was a Japanese territory 530 miles from Japan. American soldered went to capture the island and were created with thousands of Japanese solders with complex tunnels un the island grounds the us was able to capture the island after the hard battle. -
The atomic Bombs on Japan
The US dropped tow atomic bombs on Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two atomic bombs destroyed most of the country. This eventually lead Japan to surrender ending WW2.
