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German Blitzkrieg
May 1939. During the German blitzkrieg tactics were used in the successful german invasions of Belgium. The reason of the German blizkrieg was to avoid a long term war in the first phase. Blitzkrieg was able to help the germans at the beginning of WWII, they were able to quickly capture and secure their position of the dominance in mainland europe. -
Wannsee Conference
January 20 1942. Nazi officials met at the Wannsee conference villa in the South Western suburb of Berlin. They had the focused on encouraging jews to emigrate from the greater german. https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/how/the-wannsee-conference/ -
Fall of Paris
September 3 1940. The french government surrendered to hitler six weeks after the germans initial advance westwards. After this the France signed an armistice with the germans and a puppet French start was set up with its capital at Vichy
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Pearl Harbor
December 7 1941. Pearl harbor was attacked at 7:55 in the morning and the entire attack took only one hour and 15 minutes. The acttack was driven by its political and self interests. https://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/ -
Bataan Death March
March 21 1942. The Americans and the Fipion troops were able to fight for three mouths then they were eventually surrendered by the Japanese troops and thats what forced them into the Bataan Death March. Some of them most horrific war crimes had been committed by the Japanese. Prisoners that were unable to make it through the march had been beaten, killed, and sometime they had been beheaded. -
Battle of the Bulge
December 16 1944. German forced launched a surprise attack on the allied forces in the forested ardennes region in Belgium. Hitler hoped that the german counter attack would surround the Brihish and American armies and stalled the allied offensive against Germany https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/battle-of-the-bulge#:~:text=On%20December%2016%2C%201944%2C%20the,the%20Allied%20offensive%20against%20Germany. -
Operation Gomorrah
May 1943. Sustained area of a bombing campaign of the german port of Hamburg in the four night attacks by the Royal air force and two day attacks by the United states air force. The war cabinet and the Air staff wanted to destroy all of the Germanys cities with the populations.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
April 19 1943. The ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen stoop they ordered the destructions of the ghetto by the block by block. A total of 13,000 jews were killed and more still havent been found, half of the jews that were killed were burned alive or suffocated. There was also a point were there was 400,000 jews were croweded inside the walls
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D-Day Normandy Invasion
June 6 1944. D - day was the long awaited allied landing in northern France began. The front would relieve pressure on the soviet union in the east and the liberation of France. Together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known ad them largest amphibious invasion in the military history.
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Allied invasion of Italy
September 3 1943. italy hasten Italian surrender and produce quick militry victories over the german troops trapped fighting in the hostile country. The hermann goring battle of the groups attacked the northern flank of the bechhead and the main attack. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
In a thirty six days of fighting on the island, nearly 7,000 US marines were killed, 20,000 we wounded. Marines captured in 216 Japanese soldiers the rest were killed in action.
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Liberation of concentration camps
April 4, 1945. The Liberation of concentration camps towards the end of the Holocaust reveled unspeakable conditions. The forces would drive a breach in enemy defenses permitting armored tank divisions to the penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines causing shock and disorganization among the enemy defenses. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/blitzkrieg-lightning-war#:~:text=These%20forces%20would%20drive%20a,disorganization%20among%20the%20enemy%20defenses. -
VE Day
May 8 1945. D Day was born in the immediate aftermath of the Americas entry into the war and they agreed on a Germany first stragy. The Amercan's pushed for a cross channel invasion of the north west Europe.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/why-d-day-was-so-important-to-allied-victory#:~:text=D%2DDay%20was%20born%20in,way%20to%20engage%20German%20forces. -
Potsdam Declaration
july 4 1945. Germany decided that they would occupied the Americans,British,French and also the Soviets.It was also the demitiarised and disarmed. The potodam Declaration was the intended form the serve as legal basis for handling after the japans war. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
August 6 1945. The US wanted to force a quick surrender by the Japanese to reduce the number of Americans lives lost. Hiroshima was supposed to be targeted by the citys size layout and made it a suitable test site for the bombs destuctive power and the concentration of the miliarty's and munitions facilities.