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German Blitzkrieg (Fatima)
A German term for lightning war, this was a military tactic to create disorganization among enemy forces. The successful execution results in short military campaigns. Germany sought to avoid a long war. Their strategy was to defeat their opponents in a series of short campaigns.The impact of the blitzkrieg was that they defeated Poland,Denmark,Norway,Belqium, the Netherlands,Luxembourg,France,Yugoslavia,and Greece but did not defeat Great Britain. -
Japanese Invasion of China (Jaih)
The orgin of the Second Sino-Japanese War started at the end of the first sino war where Japan made Korea apart of them, took their troops to the Manchuria area to trade. They had to concor and fight China for the trading post. China had help from the Soviet Union and the United States, on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was bombed. The Japanese's main reason to the invasion of china was for the desire to be an imerial power sand was strictly economical and militaristic. -
Rape Of Nanking (Cindy)
On December 13, 1937, the Rape of Nanking began. Everyone would was suspected of being in the Chinese army was killed. Japan was killing both soldiers and civillians. Later thousands of women were forced into brutal sex and most of the time they were murdered after. It lasted for 6 weeks and it ended in 20,000 to 80,000 women being sexually assaulted. Nanking and the capital of China was ruined. -
Germany's Invasion of Poloand (Fatima)
Adolf Hitler's first major major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in Janurary 1934. The polish army was defeated in weeks. German units had more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes. The reult in this was that Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union. -
FALL OF PASRIS. -H.K
On this day in 1940 Parisians awoke to the sound of a loud speaker of the germans telling them they had made a curfew.By May 1940 Europe had been at war with germany for 9 months.Yet Britian and France have declared war to Germany in September 1939 they had not done any real fighting.Within a few weeks, a large part of the british force and french defenders were pushed to the english channel and compelled to abandon the continent Dunkirk. -
Operation Barbarossa (Jennifer Guerra)
Operation Barbarossa was a code name for the Nazi's invation of the Soviet Union during World War 2. This began on June 22, 1941. It was driven by Adolf Hitler who had a desire to conquer the Soviet territory. Three million German soldiers, 150 divisions and three thousand tanks smashed across the fronier inti the Soviet Territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape of the black sea (a distance of 2 thousand miles), Barbarossa was a failure and the bloodiest battles in history. -
VJ Day(Ashley)
On December 7, 1941,Japan had a suprise attack on the United States. That led to an immediate United States declaration of the war the next day. Then Japan's enemy, Germany which was led by Hitler, declared war on the United States. There was a global war through out Europe. By 1945, the enemies of Japan were bombing Japan from the air and sea. They were dropping about 100,000 tons of explosives on more than 60 Japan cities and towns from March and July 1945. Japan surrended ending World War II. -
Pearl Harbor (Jaih)
December 7, 1941 Japanese bombed a U.S. naval base in Hawaii. 2 hours in, 5 ships sunk, 16 damaged, 188 aircraft gone. The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178. Japan attacked the US' naval base because their lack natural resources. US had great navy power and Japan needed to take it away to gain power and resources. Though the attack lead to the Pacific War that Japan loss the attack still gave them the sapace and time they needed to collect resources -
The Wannsee Conference(Ashley)
The Wannsee Conference is the meeting of the Nazi officials in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the final solution. On July 31,1941 a Nazi leader had ordered Nazi Paramilitary Corps and the Secret Police to prepare for the final solution. The Conference was held six months later and 15 Nazi attended. The Conference had a turning point in the Nazi policy towards the Jews. There was an idea to deport all Europe's Jews to Madagascar, but dropped the idea due to wartime. -
Bataan Death March. -HK
The Philippines were attacked the same day it came to Hawaii and in the same way, a surprise air attack. In the case of the Philippines, however, this strike was followed by a full-scale invasion.After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway (Audrey)
The Battle of Midway was a result of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which had taken place a month earlier. The Battle of Midway was a struggle of authority for dominance in the Pacific Ocean.The Battle of Midway ended June 7, 1942. As a result, Japan had 2,500 soldiers injured and the U.S. suffered 307 casualties. This battle was a beneficial change in the war, turning point, and the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Fatima)
'The entire sky of Warsaw was red. Completely red'-Benjamin Meed. The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. May 16, 1934, the Germans had crushed the uprising leaving the ghetto in ruins. The result of any surviving residents of the ghetto were either deported to concentration camps or to killing centers. This happened because German authorities were depotrting and killing around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. -
Battle of Stalingrad (Audrey)
Germany invades Russia,in order to have a firm grip on the country Germans needed to take Stalingrad.Stalingrad was an important city in southern Russia; if the German Army captured it,they would cut off Russia’s supply of oil.Paulus,Germany’s General,surrenders;he later spoke out against the Nazis while still being held captive instead of fighting to the death which angered Adolf Hitler.Both armies each had over 1 mil soldiers. Around 750k Germans died and 500k Russians.Paulus loses his rank. -
Operation Gomorrah -H.K
Operation Gomorrah was an bombing campaign that occurred in the European Theater of Operations during World War II (1939-1945).On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day. Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians because of German bombings in July. British aircrafts droped 2,300 tons of bombs on Hamburg. Now the tables have turned. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid. -
D Day: Normandy Landings (Jennifer Guerra)
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on a French coastline. They had gone to fight the Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called this a crusade and they weren,t going to accept nothing less than victory. More than 9,000 Allied soldiers were either killed or wounded but this allowed other soldiers to slowly defeat Adolf Hitler's troops. -
Battle of the Bulge(Ashley)
On December 16,1944, the Germans started the most offensive war. They wanted to push their enemies from France to Belgium. It was called the bulge because the Germans created a "bulge" around the area of the Ardenne forest to the American defensive line. It was the largest war fought in the Western front line. The Germans assaulted 250,000 soldiers and attacked in the morning which was the weakest point in time. There was a fog covering the Germans during the fight which covered them. -
Liberation of concentration camps (Cindy)
The first the liberate concentration camps prisoners was the Soviet Union. They attended the Majdanek camp on July 23 of 1944. Then they headed to Auschwitz and found hundred sick and tired out prisonerswho were suffering from either starvation or diseases. Germans tried to hide the evidence of mass murder by destroying the camps and burning their bodies. Even though it was destroyed, they found 800,000 women's outfits and human hair, -
Battle of Iwo Jima (Audrey)
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place during WWII between the US & Japan.The island of Iwo Jima was a tactical location;the US needed an area for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan.17,400 US Marines were wounded and nearly 5,900 were dead.The conquering of Iwo Jima was very important to Japan;the Japanese would scout for incoming allied bombers at their two airfields.Now,the Japanese don't have those bases since the US took control of the island. -
Battle Of Okinawa (Jaih)
The allies wanted to use Okinawa, an island fairly close to Japan, as a air base. The allies involved about 500,000 soldiers to take Okinawa. After arriving at Okinawa the U.S. saw no sign of any sort of population on the island. After the second day they encountered the Japanese resistence who they got into battle with. By the end of the 82-day battle, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties including 14,000 dead. -
Potsdam Declaration (Cindy)
On July 17, 1945, the leaders of the U.S, Britain, and a China held a meeting in Potsdam, Germany to discuss the terms for WWII to end. The declaration stated things like "the elimination for all time of the authority and influence of those who have decided the misled of the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest". Japan were forbidden to have allies who helped them and were aloud to trade until later. It was able to maintain certain industries to support it's economy. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb (Jennifer Guerra)
The United States was the first and only country to use an atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, and American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city Hiroshima. This killed 80,000 people and washed four square miles of the city. Three days later another bomb was dropped in the city of Nagasaki killing more than 40,000 more poeple. The US only did this because they wanted Japan to surrender and as they had thought, Japan announced its surrender a few days later.
