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German Blitzkrieg
What happened was that Germany quickly over ran much of Europe and had victories for more then two years by using new military tactics such as planes and tanks. This happened because Germany wanted to build its empire and felt like other European powers were restricting them. There wasn't any effects or impacts. -
Germany Invades Poland
What happened was that Germany invaded Poland. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. This happened because the German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned betw -
USSR joins the war
The Soviet Union signed a non-aggressive pact with Germany. The pact was later broken which resulted in Soviets trying to stop the Germans. The USSR remained very powerful throughout the war. -
Auschwitz
What happened was that trains would bring tons of Jews to this camp. They would bring the Jews to gas chambers to kill them. Jews chosen for slave labor were stripped of everything, including outward differentiation between male and female. They did this because there was an escalation in the persecution of the Soviet Jews. New units were committed to special duties in the East, among them the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, which began to target Jewish women and children as well as men. The effect the -
Fall of Paris
The Germans wanted to occupy Paris. When people found out the left before the Germans got there. 2 million people had fled by the time the troops got there. Upon arrival the German Gestapo began to arrest and interrogate the Paris citizens. -
Wannsee Conference
What happened was that Nazi officials meet to discuss the final solution of the Jewish question. This happened because they wanted to carefully plan destruction or genocide of all European Jews. The effect it had was that a lot of Jews and other civilians in the German occupied area of the Soviet Union were killed. -
Battle of Midway
What happened was that this was the most decisive U.S victory against Japan during World War ll. This happened because of the attack on the Pearl Harbor. The U.S was determined to take revenge. The effect it had was that it was the most important battle of World War ll and it allowed the U.S and its allies to move into offensive position. -
Battle of Stalingrad
What happened was that the Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. This happened because they wanted to stop the German advance into the Soviet Union and to stop the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The effect it had was that the Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitl -
Allied Invasion of Italy
The British army began an invasion on a peninsula in Italy. the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender the day of the invasion. No public announcement was made about the agreement until September 8th. -
D-Day
The allied powers invaded Normandy and began to push the Germans out of France. At the end of D-Day more than 150,000 troops were in Normandy. They were trying to begin the liberation from Nazi control. North an parts of France were freed. -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the bulge was Germany's final attempt to drive the allies off mainland Europe. The German army wanted to catch the American by surprise. The weather was very cold and the ground was covered with snow. It is considered of the greatest battles ever fought by the American military,even thought the lost thousands of troops. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The concentration camps were liberated in January, 1945. Troops had found the prisons sick and starving. Over 60,000 prisoners were found in critical condition. More than 10,000 of them died from the effects of malnutrition or disease within a few weeks of liberation. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
During World War II America dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America wanted Japan to surrender, which they did. The second bomb was dropped three days after the first one. The bombs wiped out about 90 percent of the city and killed around 80,000 people. In the years after many more people died from radiation exposure. This was at the end of the war. -
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
After the war ended many soldiers suffered from ptsd. For some it was only nightmares but others suffered from nervous breakdowns that led them to be hospitalized. This disorder was caused by everything that the troops had witnessed during the war. It drove some of them insane and others who were unaffected. -
The Holocaust
What happened during the Holocaust was that German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others. It happened because the Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. The effects it had was that crimes committed duri
