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German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg, also known as the lightning war, required the concentration of offensive weapons. Germans successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands. German air power prevented the enemy from adequately resupplying or redeploying forces.
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Germany invaded and captured Paris
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid.By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason.The United States did not remain completely idle, though.
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Battle of Britain
The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident.On 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe unleashed a merciless bombing campaign against London and Britain's major cities. Instead of breaking morale, however, the raids only galvanised the will of the British people for the rest of the war. -
Lend Lease
The Lend Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. the United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940, even though the United States did not enter the war until December 1941. It provided that the president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted U.S. defense. -
Operation of Barbarossa
During World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.The outcome was that the Soviets defeated the Germans (after significant losses) and ruled a divided Germany with a puppet government until the early 1990s when the Soviet Union fell.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory.The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II.This move was a threat to Japan, who wanted to expand in the Pacific.
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U.S declares war on Japan and Germany
The United States declares war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the U.S after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor., President Franklin Roosevelt delivered this "Day of Infamy Speech." Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.
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Bataan Death March
The Germans began frantically to move the prisoners out of the camps near the front and take them to be used as forced laborers in camps inside Germany. Prisoners were first taken by train and then by foot on "death marches," as they became known.Prisoners were first taken by train and then by foot on "death marches," as they became known.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans.The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre.
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Soviet Union Defeats Germany
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler, who had elevated the battle's importance in German opinion.The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
After a month of fighting, the Germans blow up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signaling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto. On April 19, 1943, the Germans under the command of SS General Juergen Stroop, began the final destruction of the ghetto and the deportation of the remaining Jews.
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Battle of Bulge
The attack is strictly known as the Ardennes Offensive but because the initial attack by the Germans created a bulge in the Allied front line, it has become more commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge.On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge,
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The Liberation of Western Europe
During WWII, The Battle of Normandy,which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Soviet Union and the Western Allies took place in late April.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place near the end of World War II. US Marines first landed on the island on February 19, 1945.One-third of all Marine losses during World War II happened at Iwo Jima; it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.The devastation led to Japan's unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War II.
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