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German Blitzkrieg (1939)
Germany invaded Poland, setting off war in Europe. The Soviet Union also invaded Poland and the Baltic nations. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940.
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Germany invades France (1940)
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Germany attacked in the west on May 10, 1940. Initially, British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I.
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Germany Bombed London (1940)
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and is the German word for 'lightning'. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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Operation Barbarossa (1941)
The original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. 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 failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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Lend Lease (1941)
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”
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Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. The United States declared war on Japan and Germany. President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S.
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Germany declares war on the United States (1941)
Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. In response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War II.
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Bataan Death March (1942)
The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000. They were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II.
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Germany invades Soviet Union
This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific. Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.
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Battle of Midway (1942)
the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
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, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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Normandy landings (1944)
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings.
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Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. Many of these prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease.(https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131) -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place during World War II between the United States and Japan. The battle started from February 19, 1945 and ended on March 26, 1945. It was the first major battle of World War II to take place on Japanese homeland. American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
The American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
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Battle of the Bulge (1945)
It was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. The Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge
