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Invasion of Poland
Fall Weiss in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Nazi Take Over
The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). -
Operation Dynamo
Evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War. -
Dunkirk
the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. -
Battle of Midway
One of the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
French Resistance
collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II. -
Operation Pantelleria
Between May 8 and June 11 in 1943, Allied aircraft flew 5,285 bombing sorties against targets on Pantelleria and dropped 6,313 tons of bombs on Italian and German forces ensconced there. The operation called for using sustained aerial bombardment to crush enemy power on the island and therefore reduce the number of Allied ground forces needed to capture and hold it. -
Operation Corkscrew
the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 10 June 1943. There had been an early plan to occupy the island in late 1940 (Operation Workshop),[1] but this was aborted when the Luftwaffe strengthened the Axis air threat in the region. -
Battle of Arrars
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”
