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*Germany uses blitzkrieg to overpower Polish army
*Britain & France declare war on Germany
*Make it to Warsaw (capital of Poland) in less than a month
*Germany begins enforcing racial policies
*Jews had to wear white armbands with blue Stars of David
*Expelled 1000s of Poles and replace them with Germans
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*Happened in Honolulu Hawaii, on a Sunday morning right before 8 am.
*Surprise attack by Japanese forces
*Japanese fighter planes descended on the base and managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, and eight battleships.
*2,400 Americans died in the attack, and 1,000 people were wounded.
*U.S. wasn’t happy with Japan before this attack.
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*Euphemism used by Nazi Germany leaders
*Put an end to policies aimed at encouraging or enforcing Jews to leave the german reich and other parts of Europe.
*The policies were replaced by systematic annihilation.
*It’s unclear when Hitler decided to murder Europe Jew’s it was probably made sometime in 1941
*Nazi leaders envisioned killing 11 million Jews and succeeded in killing 6 million. -
*U.S. surrendered the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese.
*75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to walk 65 miles to prison camps.
* The marchers made the long trek in intense heat and were treated horribly by Japanese soldiers.
*Thousands died while on this march.
*The reason the U.S. General Edward king Jr. surrendered this land was because of starvation and disease. -
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*Resulted in Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
*156,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of a heavily fortified France’s Normandy region.
* One of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required a lot of planning.
*A large deception was created to mislead the Germans.
* Called the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. -
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*One of the last battles of WWII in Europe.
*Many soldiers and civilians died in widespread house to house fighting.
* The soviet union started the final offenses on Germany’s capital Berlin.
*Took them four days to get through the Seelow Heights.
*The outcome of this battle was the end of Nazi Germany and the leadership of them. -
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*An American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima
*Immediately 80,000 people would die, and then later on tens of thousands would die from radiation exposure
*A second atomic bomb would be dropped on Nagasaki three days later killing around 40,000 people.
*from this the emperor of Japan announced the surrender of the country in WWII.
*The Manhattan project created the first atomic bomb -
