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spanish civil war
it was a growing division between democratic and totalitarian countries in europe. it was a struggle between fascism and communism. -
japanese invades china
-japan invaded china in the disre to be in complete power -they left china destroyed -
neutrality acts
these acts prohibited loans and arm sales to warring nations. anxious to prevent nazi recovery roosevelt convinced congress to allow weapons to be sold to warring nations. -
germany invades poland
hitler was seeking to gain lost territory
took over poland and continued to gain lost territory. -
german blitzkreig
nightley bombings from germany
they broke down enemys.
caused havoc on many countries -
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ww2
A war between countries all over the world. the communist and nazies were trying to take over the countries and the allied powers stopped them. -
hitler takes over low countries
hitler struck against denmark and norway and they fell to him quickly. norway provided area to attack allied ships. -
operation barbarossa
nazi invades the soviet union
drove the soviet union back
But Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two-front war that it could not win. -
pearl harbor
japan bombed pearl harbor by surprised and blew up many ships and houses. This caused the hawaiin people to support the war by doing task such as collecting rubber and metal. This event caused america to have camps for japanese. -
wannsee conference
nazis would try to exterminate all the jews
they held them in concentration camps affected the whole race of jews -
battle of stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
bataan death march
75,000 american troops were forced to march to prison camps
they were all prisoners of war -
battle of midway
naval battle bewtween the us and japan.
japan sought to elimate america but we beat them
gave america another victory over japan -
warsaw ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, -
operation gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
allied invasion of italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. -
d-day
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history
hitler loses battle of the bulge -
leyte gulf
allied took over the philipinnes to cut off japams suplly lines to the east indies. -
anti-hitler youth
teenagers rebelled against gitlers racist nazi party. bartholomaus schink was hanged by the SS for being a member of the edelweiss pirates. -
battle of the bulge
major german offensive campaign hitler lost this battle major victory for america gave them the advantage. -
operation thunder clap
plan of a massive attack on berlin -
battle of iwo jima
marines captured the island from the japanese they did this to be closer the the japanese base so they dont bomb them -
battkle of okinawa
largest amphibious battle against the japanese
they were trying to stop their navy -
VE day
victory in Europe day.
it was a public holiday celebrated on may 8 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
dropping ofthe atomic bombs
untited states dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki caused alot of destruction and forced the emporer to give up. -
vj day
final ending of worlds ww2
this sparked celebrations
foprmal surrender was held in tokyo bay
