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The Pact of Steal
Video link:Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steal. The Pact of Steal was also known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. The pact created a strong alliance that linked the two contries politically and militarily. Mussolini, the leader of Italy during ww2 signed the pact out of fear of germany and its leader Adolf Hitler. Fearing Hitler's growing power in Germany. -
Germanys invasion on poland
Video link:German Troops invaded Poland along 1750 mile boarder with German controlled terrotory.The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German u-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic sea. Hitler claimed the invasion was a defensive action, Britain and France weren't convinced. On September 3,war was declared on Germany, initionating WW2. -
Germanys invasion on France
Video link:Parisians woke up to a german voice announcing through a loud speaker that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. Winstoin Churchhill relied on America coming to enter the war and come to its aid. Roosevelt replied that the United States was prepared to send material aid. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. -
Germany bombs London
video link:300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing would continue until May 1941. After the successful occupation of France, it was only a matter of time before the Germans turned their sights across the Channel to England. Hitler wanted a submissive, neutralized Britain so that he could concentrate on his plans for the East, namely the land invasion of the Soviet Union, without interference. -
The Lend Lease act
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President Fraklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Lend lease act in September 1940, but wasnt passed until arch 1941. The act proposed that instead of becoming part of the war they would send military aid and supplies to there allies to help them. By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countries, the act permitted the United States to support its war interests. -
Japan Bombing Pearl Harbor
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hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The barrage lasted just two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
U.S enters ww2
Video Link:On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been trying to not get involved in the war and stay neutral, into the European conflict.The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. -
Battle Of Midway
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, 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. -
The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad
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The battle was caused by the Germans not being able to capture Moscow. Hitler wanted to expand so they went after Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad was between the Germans and the Soviet soldiers. -
D-day
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The Battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord,also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Battle of the bulge
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A major German offensive is launched against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region on the Western Front. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance. -
The Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Millions of people were discriminated against and thrown into concentration camps where they were beat to death and starved. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. -
Us bobs Japan forceing there surrender ending the war
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American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 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. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito surrendered.
