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Germany's invasion of poland
One of Adolf Hitlers first major foreigen policy initiattives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with poland in january 1934 this move was not popular with germans who supported Hitler but lesented the fact that poland had received the former gaerman province of west prussia poznan and upper silesia under the treaty of versailles after world war 1 -
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Operation Barbarossa
on June 22,1941 Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the soviet union three great army groups with over three million german soldiers, 150 divisions,and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into soviet territory.The invasion covered a front from the North cape to the Black sea, a distance of two thousand miles. -
Wannsee Conference
In july 1941 heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann chief of the cantral office of jewish Emigration,ans 15 other officials from variovs Nazi ministras and organizations at wannsee,a suburb of berlin.the agenda was simple and focused to divise a plan that would render a final solution to the jewish question in Europe -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7,1941 hundreds of japanese fighters planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii the barrage lasted just two hours but it was deveststing.The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 enormous battleship and more than 300 airplanes -
operation Gomorrah
Britain had suffered the death of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in july .Now the tables were going to turn.The evening of july 24 saw britich aircraft drop 2,300 tones of incendiary bombs on hamborg in just a few hours.The explosive power was the equavalent of what German bombers had dropped on london in their five most destuctive raids.
