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German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg was designed to create disorangization among the opposing sides though the moible forces like tanks, and concentrated firepower. They did this because the tanks could get fred at without getting destroyed and could run things over. It helped a lot with lowering the death ammounts also. -
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Fall of Paris
Germany launched an invasion of France and the Low Countries.The British 51st Highland Division stationed in the Maginot Line when the fighting started was forced to surrender at St Valery. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941.The Soviet Union was unprepared for the fight that came in June. Stalin refused to believe the evidence that an invasion was being prepared. German offensive operations were gone -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprised military attack by Japan against the United States. They expected the United States to declare war but not thinking we would actually win. The effect was that Franklin Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. 3 days later Japan allies with Germany and Italy also declares war on United States. The United States joined war two years later. -
Bataan Death March
The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the Japanese invasion of the Philippines started.surrendered his approximately 75,000 troops at Bataan.America avenged its defeat in the Philippines with the invasion of the island of Leyte in October 1944. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II, An important turning point in the Pacific campaign the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. after which Americans rode straight to Tokyo; others view it as a cusp in the war, after which initiative hung in the balance, to swing toward the Allies in the Guadalcanal campaign. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the worst battles in history. With combined military and civilian dealth of 2 million.Stalin gained confidence in his military -
Wannsee Confrence
The nazi officals meet to discuss the deails of the Final soulition of the Jewish question. It later provided evdence during nuremburg war crimes trial. -
D Day ( Normandy Invasion )
More than 160 thousand soilders put on 50 miles of land to fight the Nazi army. It forced the Germans to have a two front war. The effect wa that the Germans retreated. -
dropping of the atomic bombs
President Harry S. Truman was told that any attempt to invade Japan would result in American casualties. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately wiped out around 90% of the city and killed around 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima is when the US took over the island from Japan called operation Detatchment took five weeks to do. they wanted to caputre the full island with the japan airfeilds -
VE Day
marks the formal accpectance by the allies of wwii of the nazi germanys surrendermarking the end of the war in Europe. when
Hitler commited suicied during the battle of Berlin many surrendered which made them sign. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.after most of the Jews of Poland had already been killed. Auschwitzthe largest killing center and concentration camp in 1945. -
VJ day
Japan has surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. There is happiness and celebration around the world and 15 of August has been declared Victory in Japan day.
