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German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg was a military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces.it happened as an attack ideally leads to a quick victory, limiting the loss of soldiers and artillery. [https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg] -
Fall of Paris
Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. After the British left and France was left to fight for itself, the Germans launched Case Red or Fall Rot which started on June the 5th.
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pearl harbor
December 7,1941, at 7.55am local time, 183 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units. The effects were that the Japanese destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes.
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Wannsee Conference
this is what happened at the Wannsee Conference,Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution" of the Jewish question.The highest-ranking German leaders Reinhard Heydrich, led the meeting. The Wannsee Conferance was the start of the whole Holocaust.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II, took place on June 5, 1942.The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theater. The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans.
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Allied invasion of Italy
In Rome, the Allied conquest of Sicily, a region of the kingdom of Italy since 1860, led to the collapse of Mussolini's government.The main invasion force landed around Salerno on September 9 on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria -
D-Day
The Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.Yet again the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line. The outcome was that the alies won against Germany and turned the tied of war -
Liberation of concentration camps
Liberation Of The Concentration Camps. As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945.The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan.
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Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah, created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing an estimated 35,000 civilians and wounding 125,000 more in Hamburg, and virtually destroying most of the city.
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VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Da is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. it happend because the US wanted to end the war by doping the bomb on Japan. The effect was long-term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors.
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VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
[https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day]
