10 of the most important dates regarding WWII ( Hungarian and world history) By Kazhayeva Nastya 12A
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Forced labor service
This affected primarily the Jewish population, but many people belonging to minorities, sectarians, leftists and Roma were also inducted.Approximately half of the six thousand Jewish forced laborers working in the copper mines in Bor, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) were executed by the Germans during the dead march from Bor to Győr on August - October 1944, including the 35 year old poet Miklós Radnóti, shot at the Hungarian village of Abda being too weak to continue after a savage beating. -
Hungary acquired the Carpatho-Ukraine
was a 1939 military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the invasion a series of clashes took place between the Hungarian and Polish troops against the paramilitary formations of the Carpathian Sich of Carpathian Ukraine and some Czech troops who remained in the region after the Czechoslovak army was disbanded. The war ended with the occupation and subsequent annexation of the territory of Transcarpathian Ukraine to the Kingdom of Hungary. -
Begining of WWII
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. -
Second Vienna Award
Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu. -
Bombing of Kassa
The bombing of Kassa took place on 26 June 1941, when still unidentified aircraft conducted an airstrike on the city of Kassa, then part of Hungary, today Košice in Slovakia.&⁹¹¹⁹³ This attack became the pretext for the government of Hungary to declare war on the Soviet Union the next day, 27 June. -
Operation Barbarossa
was the codename for Nazi Germany 's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along an 1,800 mile front. The operation was named after the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire, a leader of the Third Crusade in the 12th century. -
Hitler commits suicide
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
America wins the Battle of Midway
was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in Europe. It ended any realistic plans of Hitler dominating Europe. Soviet troops forced Nazi armies to retreat toward Germany. The USSR went on the offensive after Germany's attack. This opened the eastern front of the war. -
The Holocaust in Hungary
The Holocaust in Hungary was the dispossession, deportation, and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews, primarily after the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. At the time of the German invasion, Hungary had a Jewish population of 825,000, the largest remaining in Europe, further swollen by Jews escaping from elsewhere to the relative safety of that country. -
Arrow Cross
The Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement carries out a coup d’état with German support to prevent the Hungarian government from pursuing negotiations for surrender to the Soviets. -
Budapest was taken by the Red Army
The Budapest operation or Siege of Budapest was a strategic offensive operation by the Soviet forces during the Second World War . It was carried out by the forces of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts from the period of October 29, 1944 to February 13, 1945 with the aim of defeating German troops in Hungary and knocking out hungary from WW2. In addition, the offensive involved blocking enemy troops in the Balkans. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Three Days Later
After relentlessly bombing Japan, they would still not surrender. Truman decided to use the atomic bomb to spare the American lives that would have been lost should we have chosen to invade Japan on foot. US pilots dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The USSR declared war on Japan three days later, and the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.Japan realizes that they are pegged to the wall. They immediately lay down their weapons, and bringing an end to WWII. Japan is now surrendered.