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Nazis take the Sudetenland
Hitler took Sudetenland with aggression. Brittan and France were unwilling to go to war over the matter. On Sept. 29, Hitler met in Munich with Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain of Britain, Eduard Daladier of France and Benito Mussolini of Italy to reach a final settlement to get the Sudetenland. Hitler wanted more land. The agreement did not bring about peace and Nazis seized the rest of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939. Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/sept-30-19 -
Ribbentrop/ Molotov Pact: add on
The Nazis couldn’t resist and attacked for Poland, causing Brittan to declare war on Germany creating WWII. i chose the picture because it shows the outline of the war. Website: http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/nonaggression.htm -
Ribbentrop/ Molotov Pact
On August 23, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met, signed the Nazi-Soviet, Non-Aggression Pact. This guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing the pact, Germany saved itself from a two-front war to a soon World War II. The pact was broken two years later when Nazis attacked to Soviet Union. Hitler wanted the pact so he did not have a two-front war and his troops would not be split and weakened as in WWI. -
Germany’s invasion of Poland
The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention. Two days later on September 3, 1939, Britain and France, having guaranteed to protect Poland's borders five months earlier, declared war on Germany. These actions caused the beginning of World War II. The polish army was defeated within weeks and heavy shelling and bombing. Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of... -
Germany's invasion of Poland: add on
of Poland's border, had declared war. The Soviet Union attacked Poland on September 17, 1939. The demarcation line for the partition of German-Soviet occupied Poland along the Bug River. Germany directly took those former Polish territories along German's eastern border: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. Poland’s cities left became the General Government under a civilian governor Hans Frank. I cose the after math of the invasion. -
German Blitzkrieg
territory to German control. Hitler ended up deciding to blow away the French. Hitler wanted more territory from the French. I chose the photo showing the aftermath of the attack. Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/blitzkrieg_01.shtml -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was first used by the Germans in World War II and was a tactic based on speed, surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry or foot soldiers. This was used to be devastating and resulted in pushing back the Brittan and French to Dunkirk. On 21 June 1940 Hitler signed an agreement with French president, Marshall Philippe Pétaint, about the victor of battle Verdun in World War One agreeing to cede three-fifths of French...... -
Battle of Brittan: add on
superiority, postponed the attack and changed course to the Soviet Union. Hitler still continued to bomb Brittan till the end of the war. Hitler began the war due to he wanted full access to the English Channel for his own needs.i chose the photo because it shows the plans and the bombing. Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/battle_of_britain -
Battle of Brittan
Began in mid-July the Luftwaffe, ran by Hermann Goering, concentrated on attacking shipping in the English channel and attacking coastal towns and defenses. On August 12, Goering focused on attacking airfields and radar bases the RAF. He also tried to force air battles between fighter planes to definitively break British strength. Growing frustrated, he switched his tactics on Hitler’s orders and began hitting major cities such a London. On September 17, Hitler realized he couldn’t gain air... -
Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler wanted to attack the Soviet Union and beat Joseph Stalin before he could attack on Germany soil. A solider with the German army on the northern front reported the Soviet army opened fire immediately at the German advances, but German soldiers overran the first of the Soviet positions and within a few minutes had captured the frontier posts. In a pre-dawn offensive, German troops pushed into the USSR from the south, west, and a third force making their way from the north towards.... -
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union: add on
Leningrad. The invasion broke the non-aggression pact signed by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. The siege in Leningrad caused starvation after 900 terrible days killing a million people. The failure of the operation was Hitler’s first major defeat and was the beginning of the end. I chose the photo showing the force taken. Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/22/newsid_3526000/3526691.stm -
Pearl Harbor: add on
Congress approved his declaration. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the attack, America had finally joined World War II. the picture shows the intense explosions we endurerd. Website: http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor -
Pearl Harbor
8:00 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Lasting just two hours of devastation. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and 1,000 were wounded. The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. ...... -
Wannsee Conference
The Conference was held on January 20 1942. SS-Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich summoned 14 men of governmental and military branches involved with implementing the aspects of the Final Solution. The Final Solution was a plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe. The purpose of the meeting was to find the end of the Solution and so these men perfectly understood the intentions to make sure that all duties and responsibilities their office was expected to fulfill....... -
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These duties were voluntary immigration, confinement to ghettos in cities located along rail lines, forced removal to concentration camps, and extermination. the picture shows the men invovled in the signing. Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/wannsee.shtml -
Allied Invasion of Africa
This happened because was a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia. Oil had become critically major due to all the mechanical development that had been inquired. Brittan, who fielded a completely mechanized army, had been using the Suez Canal all during the war for access. After Germany invaded France in June 1940, Benito Mussolini could not resist the opportunity to grab his share of the spoils. ...... -
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On June 11, 1940, six days after the British evacuation at Dunkirk, France and Italy declared war on Britain and France. Britain and Italy were now at war in the Mediterranean. The picture shows the after math of the invasion. The outcome???? Website: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-north-africa-campaign.htm -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle for Stalingrad started during the winter of 1942-1943. In September 1942, the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, advanced to the city of Stalingrad. His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. The Germans final target was to have been Baku. Stalingrad was Russia’s center of communications in the south as well as being a center for manufacturing. ..... -
Battle of Stalingrad: add on
The failure of the German Army was nothing short of a disaster. A complete army was lost at Stalingrad and 91,000 Germans were taken prisoner. With such a loss of manpower and equipment, the Germans simply didn’t have enough manpower to cope with the Russian advance to Germany when it came. This picture shows the army men exposing from the waters. Website: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_stalingrad.htm -
Operation Gomorrah
The evening of July 24, British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg, Germany in just a few hours. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London where 167 people had died from the July raids.. More than 1,500 German people were killed in that first British raid. This raid was known as Operation Gomorrah. This all had it coming to Germany where revenge was more then you could call the event. Website: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-his -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
The picture given shows the trails of attack in the invasion. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Commanded by U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Normandy assault, code-name was "Neptune", was launched when weather reports predicted satisfactory conditions, on 6 June. Hundreds of amphibious ships, air-craft, and warships crossed the English Channel behind dozens of minesweepers. The operation was to drive the Germans from France and ultimately destroy the National Socialist regime. The outcome caused many of Hitler’s men/army to be shoved back home always bloodily. Website: ...... -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Estimated six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, well over three million perished in these six camps. The Discovery of these camps horrified and massively impacted public opinion as well as political and military decisions. The images also roused justice for the Nuremberg war crimes process The picture shows the relief. Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Newsreels reported the terrifying crimes created by the Third Nazi Reich, when Soviets reached the extermination camps in Majdanek and Sobibor. The understanding of the situation was extensive, but settled after the Red Army liberated Auschwitz which was one of the last extermination camps running during the last months of the war. The German army constructed six sites containing gas chambers and large crematoria, which was the events for the “Final Solution” for the Jews. ....... -
Battle of the Bulge
to thwarting the German counteroffensive. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. The picture shows the invasion tactics planned. Website: http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-the-bulge -
Battle of the Bulge
On December 16, three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in Ardennes. The once-quiet region became bedlam as American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne, which was defended by the 101st Airborne Division. The inexperienced U.S. 106th division was nearly annihilated. As the German armies drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt ..... -
Battle of the Bulge
to secure vital bridgeheads, the line defining the Allied front took on the appearance of a large protrusion or bulge, the name which the battle would forever be known as. A crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of Ardennes, proved fatal to Hitler. Lieutenant General George S. Patton's remarkable feat of turning the Third Army ninety degrees from Lorraine to relieve the town of Bastogne which was the key...... -
VE Day
Tuesday 8 May 1945 was 'Victory in Europe' (VE) Day, marking the formal end of Hitler's war. With it came the end of six year misery, suffering, courage and endurance across the world. Individuals reacted in very different ways to the end of this nightmare. Some celebrated by partying; others spent the day in quiet reflection; and there were those too busy carrying out tasks to do either. Ultimately nothing would be quite the same again......
