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Germanys blitzkrieg
What-Germany overran europe on a military tactic called blitzkrieg
why-These forces would drive a breach in enemy defenses, permitting armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and disorganization among the enemy defenses.
effects-Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland
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Germanys invasion of poland (1939)
What-Adolf hitler first major foreign policy after he came to power was to sign a nonagrassion treaty.
why-Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance re arm.
the effects- Invaded soviet union.
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Fall of paris
about 175,000 Jews resided or had found refuge in Paris. Paris became the seat of the German military administration. Nazis bombed seven synagogues in the city. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005453 -
Pearl harbor
President franklin called December 7, 1941, Japanese plaines attacked the u.s.2,3000 americans were Killed. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html -
Bataan Death March (1942)
they led their prisoners on a forced march out of Bataan. Before the "Death March" was over, those who survived would march more than sixty miles through intense heat with almost no water or food. Somewhere between 5,000 and 11,000 never made it to Camp O'Donnell, where fresh horrors awaited.
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D-Day normady invasion
D day means for which the day and hour of the combat attack. More then 4,000 peopel died.
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The battle of the buldge.
During the wake of the allied forces. Germany launched counter offense. http://www.army.mil/botb/ -
Batle of iwo jima
Us marines invaded Iwo Jima. 70,000 U.S. Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battle. 7,000 U.S. Marines were killed. Another 20,000 were wounded. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/focus-on/iwo-jima-fact-sheet.pdf -
Battle of okinawa
started on 23 March 1945 with all major combat operations ending on 23 June 1945.Okinawa had been turned into a death trap for the American invasion force in order to display Japanese enthusiasm. https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/2012/11/okinawa-final-great-battle-world-war-ii -
VE day
stands for victry in europe day. commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, Italy, had switched sides in 1943, though many Italians continued to fight alongside their German comrades in Italy.
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VJ day
August 6, the US dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing as many as 140,000 people.For those who had seen the face of battle and been in the camps and under the bombs – and had lived was a sense of immense relief." The war was over.
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Dropping of atomic bomb
Japan had an army of 2 million strong stationed in the home islands guarding against invasion. Over 3,500 Japanese kamikaze raids had already wrought great destruction and loss of American lives.
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