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The Molotov Pact
The Nazis were being attacked by a lot of countries so they decided to try to make a peace treaty with Russia. -
Nazis take Sudetenland from Britain
Britain felt there was no need to commence in battle so they gave them their land. -
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German Blitzkrieg
German blitzkrieg was a new strategy in tanks. They named it lightning war, they used light tanks that were advanced to try to when battles. -
Germany invades Poland
-Germans invaded Poland and settled a treaty between Russia. Poland formed a small private army hoping it would hold off invaders. -
Battle of britain
The Germans tried to plant 160,000 in Britain’s mainland. The Germans took out the air base first so that their casualties wouldn’t increase fast. -
Nazi invasion of the soviet union
When Germans invaded Russia they used operation Barbarossa. The Russians tried hard to defend their land. -
pearl harbor
- Pearl Harbor was bombed by japan as an act of hate. So U.S bombed them back and killed many.
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wannsee conference
The wannsee conference was to divide the prisoners at concentration camps. 18 million in total were at the concentration camps about 5 to 11 million did. -
Battle of stalingard
The battle of Stalingrad was of Nazis trying to take a Russian battle ground. After Barbarossa failed the Germans wanted to get progress from a plan. -
Allied invasion of africa
Italy was on a struggle so they invaded Africa for food and other supplies that they would need to survive. -
operation gommorah
On the night of July 24, 740 RAF bombers descended on Hamburg. Led by H2S equipped Pathfinders, the planes struck their targets and returned home with a loss of only 12 aircraft. -
D-Day
The battle began months before the invasion, when Allied bombers began to pound the Normandy coast and farther south, to destroy transportation links, and disrupt the German army's build-up of their military strength. More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over Normandy . -
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi Germany murdered between 11 and 17 million people, approximately 6 million of them Jews. The date was chosen because Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest of the concentration camps, on Jan. 27, 1945. -
VE Day
The surrender, which brought the war in Europe to a formal end after five years, eight months and six days of bloodshed and destruction, was signed for Germany by Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl. General Jodl is the new Chief of Staff of the German Army. -
Battle of the bulge
From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II.
