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German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and firepower. Germany between, 1918 and 1939, used mobility to prevent the repetition of World War I. This resulted in short military campaigns, which limmited the amount of lives lost, and allows for money not to be wasted on artilery.
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Germany invades France and captured Paris
2 million Parisians had fled before germans arrived announcing new rules, such as curfew, on a loudspeaker. German Gestapo began making arrests, interrogations, spying and began hanging swastikas anywhere it could be. this resulted in President Roosevelt freezing the American assets of the Axis powers, Germany and Italy.
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Battle of Britain
Hitler turned his attention to the invasion of Britain, the last country in Western Europe to stand against him, after his invasion and defeat of France.The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. Britain’s victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces.
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Lend Lease
The Lend-Lease Act allowed the U.S. to give military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It was created to allow the United States to support its war interests without being dragged into war. The act enabled the British to keep fighting.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
Adolf Hitler sent his troops eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
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Pearl Harbor
On December 14, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base in Hawaii, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels and over 300 airplanes. this happened because the United States had stopped trading oil, all the naval ships were in the same place, and because Japan had wanted to build an empire. As a result, the United States declared war on Japan.
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Bataan Death March
After April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender the Bataan Peninsula and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines. In February 1945, U.S.-Filipino forces recaptured the Bataan Peninsula, and Manila was liberated in early March.
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The United States declares war
Soon after Japan bombed pearl harbor, Germany declared war on Japan. This led to the U.S. declaring War on Japan and Germany. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. It was also the turning point of war in the pacific.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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D-Day
The Battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. American and other Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day to begin the
liberation of Western Europe.Germany's t also prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his Eastern Front against the Soviets.
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Battle of the Bulge
Germans Launched Battle of the Bulge attempting to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The weather prevented Allied air cover from discovering German movement, and the Germans were able to push the Americans into retreat. The war would not end until better weather enabled American aircraft to bomb and strafe German positions.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory
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Dachau Liberated
Dachau was the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. During the next few years, the number of prisoners grew dramatically, and other groups were interned at Dachau. Prisoners at Dachau were used as forced laborers, initially in the construction and expansion of the camp and later for German armaments production. On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberated Dachau.
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945,
forcing Japan to surrender and ending World War II. An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. it wiped out 90% of the city and many more died from exposure of radiation. Two days later a second bomb was droped on nagasaki resulting in the surrendur of japan.
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