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Sep 3, 1093
Germany invaded France and Britain
In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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German Blitzkrieg
Hitler invaded Poland with a new military strategy, known as the Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg "lightning war" is taking the enemy by surprise.
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Germany bombed London and captured Paris
Hitler invaded through Belgium in May and by June controlled France. Hitler planed to soften Britain for invasions by continuously bombing, but was unsuccessful and called off after 11 months. -
Lend Lease
Hitler is unable to conquer Britain and decides to invade the Soviet union. The US extend Lend-Lease aid to Stalin sine the soviet Union is now part of the Allied Powers. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Known as operation "Barbarossa", Germany's three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The Germans had serious deficiencies. The greatest mistake that the Germans made was to come as conquerors, not as liberators. From the beginning of the war, the East became an ideological struggle, waged with a ruthlessness and mercilessness not seen in Europe since the Mongols.
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Operation Barbarossa
Code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the U.S. Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Japan wanted to expand over Asia, but the only thing standing in their way was the US. FDR also froze Japanese financial assets and stopped exporting oil to Japan. Japan did not want peace, they wanted to become great.
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The United States declared war on Japan and Germany
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the US Congress to declare war on Japan following the previous day's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Bataan Death March
For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army held out despite a lack of naval and air support. Finally, on April 9, with his forces crippled by starvation and disease, U.S. General Edward King Jr. (1884-1958), surrendered his approximately 75,000 troops at Bataan.
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The Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theater. The attack on the island of Midway, which also included a feint to Alaska by a smaller fleet, was a ploy by the Japanese to draw the American carrier fleet into a trap.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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D-day
Operation Neptune began on D-Day when the Allies had established a firm foothold in Normandy. when Allied bombers began to pound the Normandy coast and farther south, to destroy transportation links, and disrupt the German army's build-up of their military strength. More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over Normandy in advance of the invasion.
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Battle of the Bulge
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. 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
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Battle of Jima
American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing about 90% of the population. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
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