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German Blitzkrieg
The Nazi forces launched a fast and brutal attack on Poland to test the tactic before they used it to defeat France. The attack kept moving and didn't stop till the enemy was defeated. They kept moving so the enemy could not stop and so that they could not prepare their defenses. -
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Germany invades France
The German forces punched a hole in the french defenses and just kept coming. The french started to retreat but couldn't set up their defenses in time. The fall of France was swift. -
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Battle of Britain
Germany set for Great Britain so they could gain the English channel. The Germans started to bomb the British factories and harbors. Great Britain never surrendered to the Germans even though they were getting bombed. -
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Lend Lease Act
President Roosevelt passed an act that would allow him to lend or rent out the weapons that the US was making other countries buy. This went on till the United states got involved in 1945 -
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Operation Barbarossa
The Germans invade the USSR. Hitler breaks the treaty made with Stalin and invades. This makes the war a two front war and is the turning point in the war. -
Pearl Harbor attacked
The Japanese attacked a United states Navy base in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Japanese were not happy that the United states stopped trading oil with them so they were going to invade the US but they failed in the attempt cause they did not advance to the United States. -
US Declares War on Japan
After the Attack on Pearl Harbor the United states wasted no time to go to war with Japan. Germany declared war on the US too at that time. -
Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. They were put on to trains. -
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Battle of Midway
America learned the location of the Japanese aircraft carriers and decided to attack. The battle was mostly an air battle cause the US sent in their aircraft first. The US destroyed all but one of the Japanese aircraft carriers so the Japanese went on the defensive. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Nazis turn on the USSR and invade the Soviet Union. They reach Stalingrad where the Nazi forces were met with heavy resistance. The Nazi army was not prepared for the winter and was not able to last during winter, and that is when the USSR was able to drive the Nazis back out of Stalingrad. -
D-Day
The US, UK, and Canada invaded Normandy to make a foothold in the German line. The US took the most dangerous beaches and had the most men in the attack. -
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Battle of the Bulge
It was the last major German offensive on the western front. The attack came from the densely forested area in eastern Belgium. It was one of Americas most Lethal battles with a total of 19,276 Americans killed. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The allies advanced so far that they were able to liberate the camps and save thousands of lives. By this time Hitler was presumed dead or MIA. -
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battle of Iwo Jima
American troops land on the island and start the invasion. They are able to take the island. once the island was taken America had the advantage. -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The united states dropped atomic bombs on the two cities to convince the Japanese that they needed to stop or the whole country would end up like the two cities.
