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German Blitzkrieg
~ A rapid invasion and surprise attack used by Germans
~ Germans also called it lightning war
~ an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory -
Germany's invasion of Poland
~ Germany invaded from the west and the soviet union invaded from the east.
~ Rapid invasion and surprise attack used by the Germans called "blitzkrieg"or lightning war
~ Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September -
Pearl Harbor
~ Roosevelt calls this "a day that will live in infamy"
~ The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
~ US declares war on japan the next day -
Battle of Stalingrad
~ the largest confrontation of World War II
~ Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
~ It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies -
Allied invasion of Italy
~ was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II
~ The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful invasion of Sicily
~ there was a belief that the presence of Allied troops in Italy would help the Allies with the invasion of Normandy -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
~ the invasion included 150,000 solders; 5,000 ships; 11,000 planes and gliders. D-day was known as " operation Fortitude."
~ Churchill, FDR, and Eisenhower (the Allied commander in Europe) planned a land invasion.
~ Stalin promised to attack Germany at the same time from the east -
Battle of the Bulge
~Hitler’s last attempt to defeat the allies in Europe
~ Germans lost because they ran out of fuel
~ 600,000 Americans fought in the battle and 80,000 killed -
Battle of Iwo Jima
~ Had air bases that were within striking distance of Japan
~ the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army
~ it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties -
Battle of Okinawa
~ War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
~ Had air bases that were within striking distance of Japan
~ It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies -
VE Day
~ Germans surrendered
~ Hitler commit suicide (Took a cyanide pill and then shot himself)
~ A celebration to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
~ President Truman decide to drop the bomb in order to save American lives from a land invasion
~ Hiroshima: around 70,000 and killed instantly 135,000 final death toll
~ Nagasaki: 40,000 killed instantly and 50,000 final death toll -
VJ Day
~ victory in Japan
~ the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II
~ in effect bringing the war to an end
