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Germany invaded Poland, setting off war in Europe. The Soviet Union also invaded Poland and the Baltic nations.
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Effects include: End of second polish republic, beginning of WWII, About 65,000 polish troops were killed in the fighting with 420,000 others being captured by the Germans and 240,000 more by the Soviets, 904,00 -
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Operation Barbarossa
The Operation Barbarossa was the German codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which commenced on June 22, 1941. Hitler invaded the USSR because he wanted to defeat communism happening in USSR, take over land in USSR and use the Soviet people for slave labor. Also, he knew certain feilds of Ukraine and oil fields of Caucasus would be handy. The main effects of operation "Barbarossa' are the following facts: 1. Dissapearance of Hitler's Germany and Germany -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Nazis had put over 500,000 Jews into the ghetto in Warsaw, though starvation killed thousands each month, the Nazis began transferring more than 5,000 Jews a day to rural labour camps. -
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