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Nazis take the Sudetenland
• The Germans marched into Sudetenland on October, 1st 1938
• Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier agreed that Germany could have the Sudetenland. In return, Hitler promised not to make any further territorial demands in Europe threw the Munich Agreement.
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Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
• Hitler was trying to acquire Poland without having to use force as well as not having to fight a two front war like in WWI.
• Germany made a deal with the Soviets to have Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact as of August, 23rd 1939
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Germanys invasion of Poland
• On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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German Blitzkreig
• Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland in September 1939, Denmark in April 1940, Norway in April 1940, Belgium in May 1940, the Netherlands in May 1940, Luxembourg in May 1940, France in May 1940, Yugoslavia in April 1941,and Greece in April 1941 -
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Battle of Britain
• The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air force.
• Raged over Britain between July and October 1940.
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Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
• Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941
• On December 6, 1941, the Soviet Union launched a major counterattack against the center of the front, driving the Germans back from Moscow in chaos.
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Pearl Harbor
• December, 7 1941 before 8 A.M. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes crashed into Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 2000 American people died and over 1000 people were wounded as well as 200 airplanes destroyed and 20 naval vessels.
• Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan.
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Wannsee Conference
• January 20, 1942 15 Nazi party and German officials had a meeting over “the final solution to the Jewish people.
• The solution was to exterminate the entire population of the European Jews.
• Heydrich said that approximately 11,000,000 Jews in Europe would fall under the actions of the Final Solution.
• They then set up the concentration camps in which they separated people by gender then age then work ability.
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Allied invasion of Africa
• On November 8, 1942, the military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa
• America and the United Kingdom were going to box in Romnel’s forces so they couldn’t fight.
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Battle of Stalingrad
• The Battle for Stalingrad was fought during the winter of 1942 to 1943.
• The Germans invaded Russia and the Russians fled and burned their towns that they were at and their crops.
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Operation Gomorrah
• The orders for Operation Gomorrah were signed on May 27, 1943.
• On the night of July 24, 1943 the air bombing had started in Hamburg and the bombing continued until August 3.
• 40-50 thousand people killed and over 1 million people were left homeless.
• Hitler thought that if this had continued that the Germans would be taken out of the war
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D-Day
• On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy
• The first sent in the paratroopers to take control of bridges and destroy key targets so that they could send in the main invasion on the beaches.
• Next they dropped bombs on Germany and while they did that the French had sabotaged their telephone lines and railroads.
• 150,000 troops landed in Normandy and had pushed the Germans out of France.
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Liberation of concentration camps
• The Germans tried to hide the camps by burning them as they ran to other camps while running from the allied forces.
• The Nazis sent the prisoners on death marches away from the camps including Auschwitz the largest concentration camp in Germany.
• The Germans had killed more than 1 million Jewish prisoners.
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Battle of the Bulge
• It was fought early in the morning on December 16th, 1944.
• There were 89,000 US casualties including 19,000 who died.
• U.S. forces destroyed their fuel supply’s so they couldn’t fuel their tanks which was a big part of their main battle scheme
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VE-Day
• On Mar. 7, 1945, the Western Allies overran West Germany.
• German collapse came after the meeting of the Western and Russian armies at Torgau in Saxony on April 25th and after Hitler's death
• Germany surrendered on May 7th.
• May 8 marks the formal celebration of the Allies' victory in
Europe during World War II.
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