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germanys invasion of poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. why it happend was so that hitler could give land and place for german people to live. During the German occupation, nearly three million Polish Jews were killed in the Nazi death camps. -
German Blitzkrieg
germany used the Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planeand other stuff along a narrow front. They would drive a breach in enemy defenses, with armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and among the enemy defenses. also they did this so that thy could get control over the land and thn tey were able to have land for there people. also so stuff was wrong is they new how it was set up. -
Fall of Paris
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. Beginning on 10 May 1940, the battle defeated primarily French forces.. France remained under Axis occupation until the occupation of the country by the Allies after the Allied landings in June 1944. -
battle of britain
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. it was the largest bobing to date.the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. it happend because they wanted superiority over the roya air force. pretty much they made germany lose and then they saved there ountry. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. some thing were that german troops sufferd because they didnt make winter. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. 20 American vessels and eight enormous battleships, and 300 airplanes. and 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan . also most of the effcts were like soldiers and stuf and wepons were lose. -
Wannsee Conference
they wanted to discuss The final solution was the Nazis code name for the deliberate carefully planned destruction, or genocide of all European Jews. they pretty much had mobile killing squads going aroud killing and gathering ews. they had this so that they could hide what happened t the jews. the had it aslo named the final soultion so they could hide it.pretty much all the jews were either dported or killedduring this and if there were some left they would probs die. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle 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. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
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 extermination camp. The uprising started on 19 April when the Ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who then ordered the burning of the Ghetto, block by block, ending on 1 -
Operation Gomorrah
british aircraft were drooping over 2,300 tons of booms on hamburg.When it was over, 17,000 bomber sorties dropped more than 9,000 tons of explosives, killing more than 30,000 people and destroying 280,000 buildings, including industrial and munitions plants. they had like 3 hundred planes go up in the air and they only lost 30 -
D-Day
this resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. The task was much tougher at Omaha beach, however, where 2,000 troops were lost and it was only through the tenacity and quick-wittedness of troops on the ground that the objective was achieved. once done they had retreated and lost lots. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest.American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.battle of blugewas a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, German losses were greater than their army could take. Approximately 30,000 soldiers and 44,000 infantry forces were kil -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Of the 21,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner, some of whom were captured because they had been knocked unconscious or otherwise disabled. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific.It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies.The 82-day-long battle lasted from 1 April until 22 June 1945. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) as Nazi Germany surrenders, marking the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisonerMeanwhile, more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. -
Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.We-the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of the Republic of China, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. -
VJ Day
the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.
