WWll - Alex C

  • Genocide - The Holodomer

    Race-related mass murder. An international famine caused by Soviet Government confiscating the whole harvest.
  • Japanese Invasion of China

    Japanese invaded China in search of raw materials.
  • Nanjing Massacre

    mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops.
  • Anschluss

    The annexation of Austria. Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assasinated.
  • Appeasement - Munich Agreement

    The diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power. Chamberlain hoped to avoid a war over Czechoslovakia by conceding to Adolf Hitler's demands.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Attack on the Second Polish Republic by nazi Germany and Soviet Union. Beginning of WWll
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact

    Germany and Soviet Union truce agreement. No military action for the next 10 years. Hitler could invade Poland with to resistance.
  • Women in the War

    Women worked in factories, red-cross, and served in the military.
  • Western Desert Campaign

    Rommel pushed British Army out of most of Libya.
  • Battle of Leningrad

    Prolonged military blockade. German and Finnish armed forces invade Leningrad, in the Soviet Union.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Surprise military strike by Imperial Japanese navy air service upon united states against naval base at Pearl Harbor Honolulu.
  • Battle of Alamein

    Battle of the Western campaign. Ended the long Western Campaign.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Germany and it's allies fought the soviet union for control of the city.
  • Crossing the Rhine River

    Military operation to cross the Rhine launched by the 21st army group under Field Marshal montgomery.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    US Marine Corps troop decended on the Pacific Island on Okinawa, for a final push towards Japan.

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