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world war2
this is a time line about world war2 -
germany's invasion of poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland.On September 3 they declared war on Germany.August 31 Hitler ordered hostilities against Poland.But on September 2 Britain and France demanded that Germany withdraw by September 3 or face war.On september 28 the Warsaw garrison surrendered German siege. -
fall of paris
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to not go for peace.America would enter the war.German tanks rolled into Paris 2 million Parisians had already left.While Parisians who were trapped in their capital.French men and women in the west cheered. Canadian troops went through their area offering hope for a free France yet. -
operation barbarossa
Hitler made his armies move eastward in a huge invasion of the Soviet Union.150 divisions and 3,000 tanks smashed across the Soviet territory eara.The Germans had serious failing.they were determined to enslave the Jews. Russian weather was with heavy rains that turned the roads into big muddy areas.russsa would leave their troops with no winter clothes or anything for the winter, -
preal harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the Americans.2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were hurt.Japanese allies Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.no one believed that the Japanese would start that war with an attack on American eara.Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. -
wannsee conference
The purpose of the conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany to make sure for working together with administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question. -
battle of stalingrad
soviet forces surrounded and crushed an entire German army under General Friedrich Paulus.buring of a Roman army under Aemilius Paulus.he invading Germans saw the conquest of Stalingrad as essential to their campaign in southern Russia, since from this strategic point on the Volga River they could launch further assaults in the Caucasus. -
bataan death march
U.s surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War 2.after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines started -
operation gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg.Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July.he evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. -
d-day normandy invasion
Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May Americans came in the war in December 1941 by1942 they and the British Germans did not know exactly where the Allies would strike. -
battle of iwo
a key island in the Bonin chain roughly 575 miles from the Japanese coast, was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marianas, and for a base for escort fighters that would assist in the bombing campaign. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment -
potsdam declaration
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dropping the atomic bombs
u.s becomes the first nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of HiroshimaUnited States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons -
vj day
news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II -
battle of midway
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battle of okinawa
