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German Blitzkrieg
•a military tactic
•designed to create disorganization among enemy forces
•successful and helped germans to win battles -
Germany’s invasion of Poland
•Soviet Union and Germany invade poland
•wanted to restore lost land and rule Poland
•poland spilt into Soviet Union and Germany -
Fall of Pairs
•Germany invades France
•paris was unprepared and defeated
•Germany had control over Paris -
fall of Paris
•German invaded France
•France wasn’t expecting it
•Paris taken over -
Pearl Harbor
•Japan invaded pear harbor to kick US out of war before they were even in it
•US not expecting it
•lots of battle ships sunk and destroyed, lots of people died -
Battle of the Bulge
•Hitler tried to divide the allies but the allies stood like a bulge
•Germans defeated because allies were strong and united
•German offensive line neutralized -
Battle of Iwo Jima
•American forces invaded the island leaving Japan with lots of casualties
•Japan was not prepared for the attack
•japan lost morale -
Battle of Okinawa
•last major battle, US took final push towards Japan
•US troops strong
•Japan defeated -
VE day
•victory in Europe
•Germany surrenders
•end of the war in europe -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
•Truman decides to drop bomb in Japan instead of trying to invade them and being defeated
•New weapon built
•Japan cities destroyed. many casualties -
VJ day
•Japan surrendered
•victory over japan
•allies won the war -
Liberation of concentration camps
•the Allies found all the prisoners in the camps and freed them
•prisoners were cleaned and given food
•many jews caught diseases and never truly felt free
