World War 2

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  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    the worst Jewish pogrom in peacetime Germany occurred when Nazis orchestrated .

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    Britain and France were forced to declare war after Germany ignored their separate ultimatums, delivered on 3 September 1939, demanding the withdrawal of German troops from Poland.

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The RAF's victory was the first major victory for the Allies since the beginning of the war .

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japanese naval forces compiled for the raid , and over 350 Japanese planes were involved in overall attack, which surprised the United States. At the end of the day, over 2,000 men lost their lives. the SIGNIFICANT about pearl harbor was that this bombing got the United States into World War II. It led, therefore, to the defeat of Japan, but also to the defeat of Germany.

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    June 4 - 6 , 1942 , The Japanese Navy sought to take the United States out of the picture in the Pacific Theater of operations at Midway. Similar to their earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, an additional defeat at Midway would give Japan free reign to establish their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and it was thought that another defeat would make the U.S. seek peace.

  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    19 August 1942 - 2 February 1943 . it's a city named after Stalin and a war Stalin ordered and caused to Win the battle

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded .

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    In the fighting at Leyte Gulf, the Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 8 cruisers, and 12 destroyers, as well as 10,000+ killed. Allied losses were much lighter and included 1,500 killed as well as 1 light aircraft carrier, 2 escort carriers, 2 destroyers, 1 destroyer escort sunk.

  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    Iwo Jima was a battle during World War 2 between the United States and the Empire of Japan.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured.