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Jewish Concentration and Death Camp
The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under bad conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. The first concentration camps were first established when Hitler was appointed chancellor. the impact on this event was negative to the people because they were forced to leave their lives behind and start a new one without freedom and without their customs. -
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World War 2
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Germany's invasion of Poland
On September 1st Germany invaded Poland, within weeks of the invasion Poland's army was taken down and defeated. The Germans had more than 2,000 tanks and had over 1,000 planes. They had soldiers in East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south. They advanced into Warsaw with huge attack encirclement attack. This effect was negative because the Polish people were invaded and their freedom was violated all because Hitler's beliefs were different from the Jews. -
Fall of Paris
This fall of Paris was a war that lasted 9 months. Despite Britain and France calling war on Germany following on Hitler's attack in September on Poland. These countries had only seen little real fighting thrust it became known as the "Phoney war".The attack the German planned had a codename, this codename was referred to as 'case yellow'. The things that led up to this event was neutral because these countries at this point still didn't know what a real war was hence they had a 'phoney war' -
Pearl Harbor
Around 8 a.m. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes came to attack America at the naval base down in Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack was 2 hours, but these two hours caused many losses in families. The japanese managed to destroy 20 American naval vessels which included eight huge battleships and more than 300 airplanes were lost. 2,000 American Soldiers and sailors were killed and another 1,000 were wounded. Pearl Harbor was negative because many innocent lives were lost. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack of Pearl Harbor, U.S.A beat Japan in one of the most brutal naval battles of World War 2. This was a positive impact because this showed the Japanese that our country was and is smart enough to take on and fight for our country. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed raised against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This was negative because the Jewish people were punished for doing what they believed in. Hitler punished them for something they had no fault of. -
Operation Gomorrah operation Thunderclap
On this day in 1943, British bombers attack Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. The evening of July 24 British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of flammable bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed. -
D- Day (Normandy Invasion)
June 6th, 160,000 allied troops. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 supported the D-day invasion. More than 9,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. The sacrifice they made allowed around 100,000 soldiers so they can begin a slow hard process across Europe to defeat Hitler's troops. -
Liberation of Camps
On July 23rd, 1944 the Soviet soldiers On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave the prisoners behind in their rapid retreat from the camp. Also, Germans left behind were victims' belongings: 348,820 men's suits, 836,255 women's coats, and tens of thousands of pairs of shoes. They entered the Majdanek camp in Poland. -
VE Day
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally down their weapons. The main concern of many German soldiers was to withdraw the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass avoid to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender. This was positive because it helped end things between Europe and Germany -
Potsdam Declaration
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city. killed 80,000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II in a on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” -
VJ day
This day marked the day Japan surrendered whole- hearted to their allies which initially ended WW2, that is how August 14th to the 15th got the day known as "Victory Over Japan Day". This term is used August 2nd, 1945, when Japan formally surrendered. This is a positive impact because it put the world at peace again and now people could start rebuilding their lives essentially.