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Germany invades poland
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland
Germany Invades Poland. Germany invaded Poland for land and to unify all the Germans across Europe into one country. This showed the power hilter had. -
Germany invades France and captures Paris.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/fall_france_01.shtml
Germany captures Paris and invade France. This gave Hitler an opportunity to focus on Russia. This gave hitler more acces to attack the USSR. -
The Bombings of Britain.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain-1
Germany bombs Britain many times nearly every day for 11 months. They did this in hopes the British would give in and sign a treaty. This made planes after the battle be very low in number. -
The U.S Trades Naval ships for military bases with Britain.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/trade-of-50-american-destroyers-for-British-bases-in-world-war-ii/
The U.S traded old Naval war ships with the British for bases in the Bermuda and Caribbean. This effected the war because it gave us a transition in war and the British supplies to fend of the Germans -
Pearl Harbor
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Japan bombed Americas most important naval base in Hawaii. This changed the tide of the war because we entered after this attack. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor to take out as much of our navy as they could. -
War is declared between the US Germany and Japan after Pearl Harbor.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
The Attacks on pearl Harbor cause the US to declare war on Japan and Germany declare war on the US. This cause the US to bomb Japan twice and to attack the Germans. -
Operation Barbarossa
https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was code name for the German invasion on the Soviet Union. The war changed by a long shot because many German troops were lost. -
Bataan Death March
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bataan-Death-March
This was a forcible transfer by the japanes army of 60,000-80,000 american filipino prisoners. The prisoners were then loaded onto trains. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw-ghetto-uprising
The warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an uprising of people living in ghettos more specifically the Warsaw Ghetto. The people rioted and changed the way of the war. -
Germany invades the USSR and gets rekt
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
Germany invades the USSR and loses at the battle of Stalingrad. Germany attacks the USSR because they believed they would attack first if Germany did not. This caused Germany to lose. -
D-Day
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
Normandy D-Day landing. American and Ally troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate the area and take it back from the axis forces. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
America bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki in response to Pearl Harbor. This happened because the US declared war on japan and this was their first action to show japan that they awake a sleeping giant.
