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The Allies give Germany the Sudeten land in hopes that he would stop invading Countries. -
Nazi's invaded Poland on the Western Front, and the Soviets from the east. This would bring The Allies into WWII. It was a month long battle, the result, total defeat for Poland. -
Through 1939 and 1940, Hitler continued his conquest of Europe and invaded Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg -
France fell to Germany after Nazi troops invaded and took over Paris. France signed an armistice with Germany and were given a French State in Vichy -
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies during World War II. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part, and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II. The attack on Hawaii and other U.S. territories led the United States to formally enter World War II on the side of the Allies. -
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question. -
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States set out to sea towards Japan to take control of islands off the coast. These islands would be advantageous for the U.S. The battle was fought completely by aircraft. -
The Battle of Stalingrad is what Russians consider one of the greatest battles of their country's history. The seven month conflict would end with a Soviet defence, pushing the Germans out of the country. This marked a major turning point for the allies in the war. -
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. Germans hoped to catch the allies off guard and split their armies up so they would stand a better chance. However, as we know, they failed to do so. -
As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. As the Soviet Army advanced from the east, the Nazis transported prisoners away from the front and deep into Germany. Over the course of these death marches, which sometimes lasted weeks, tens of thousands of people died from cold or hunger, or were shot. In January 1945, Auschwitz was overrun by Russian soldiers. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field. These airfields would give Americans a great advantage during the rest of the war with Japan -
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front. -
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, just six days after the bombing of Nagasaki. -
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to the day on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made August 15, 1945, or in America, August 14, 1945.