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Nazis take the Sudetenland
Germany got the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis take the Sudetenland
Germany threatened to take the Sudetenland by force and the Czechoslovakian government didn’t want to give it up. Czechoslovakian allies Britain and France wanted to avoid all war cost so Britain and France just gave Sudetenland to Hitler with no fighting. Britain and France told Czechoslovakian accept the terms or resist the Nazis on their own. Hitler met in Munich with the Prime Ministers of Britain, France and Italy to reach a final settlement. The Munich Agreement did not bring on peace. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met to sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. The Soviet Union was awarded land and Germany had protected itself from having to fight in a war. The pact was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later. The Nazis broke the pact by attacking Poland which the Soviets owned. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Two days after the Nazis attacked, Brittan declared war on Germany, starting World War ll.
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Germany’s invasion of Poland
Hitler invaded Poland because he had a plan, the "racially superior" Germans would colonize the territory and the native Slavs would be enslaved. Germany wanted Poland for more land to expand. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units broke through Polish defenses along the border. Germany invading Poland started World ll. -
German Blitzkrieg
At first in World War II in Europe, Germany wanted to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons. It was also a tactic based on speed and surprise.It was a devastating effect on the first few years of World War ll. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005 -
Battle of Britain
Germany wanted a battle with Britain because before Germany could launch a seaborne invasion of Britain it had to gain air superiority over the English Channel. The battle began in mid-July and the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English Channel and attacking coastal towns and defenses. German was attacking airfields and radar bases. The Germans were aggravated that the British planes were still fighting off his attacks. -
Battle Of Britain
The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force even though they had been targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, civilian population. Hitler decided to post pone his invasion. Between 10 July and the end of October 1940, the RAF lost around 1,023 aircraft whilst the Luftwaffe lost 1,887.
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Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler’s plan to invade Britain failed so he was now focused on the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler wanted to invade the Soviet Union because he wanted to beat Joseph Stalin before the Soviet Union invaded Germany. Germanys invasion broke the pact they made with the USSR. Half of Germans army starved to death. The failure of the invasion was Hitler's first major defeat on land, and marked the beginning of the end for Nazi. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164 -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was awful. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The next day President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Congress approved. A few days later Japanese allies Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials discussed on what they called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” The plan was to evacuate Jews from west to east. Supposedly, Jews were to be sent to the East to work in forced labor. Within only an hour or hour and a half, the implementation of the Final Solution had been planned and the death sentence of millions passed down.
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Battle of Stalingrad
The city was very important to Stalin and to Hitler who hated Stalin. The battle began with the German Air force bombing the Volga River and the then the city of Stalingrad. Soon the German army moved in and took a large portion of the city. The Soviet troops were not ready to give up. They hid all around in the city attacking the German Soldiers. This brutal battle began to take its toll on the Germans. In November the Soviets made a counter attack on the Germans and trapped them. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Soon the Germany began to run out of food. Weak from lack of food and freezing from the cold winter, most German Soldiers surrendered. Hitler was angry with General Paulus for surrendering. He expected Paulus to fight to the death or commit suicide. Around 750,000 soldiers from the German army died and nearly 500,000 Russians. Germany took such a defeat that they never quite recovered.
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Allied Invasion of Africa
Many US Generals wanted an all out invasion on Europe but President Roosevelt trusted Prime Minster of Britain Churchill, in establishing a second front on North Africa. If the move was a success, would contain Germany expansion to Europe, block off all vital shipping lanes in the Mediterranean and provide the allies with a jumping off point into Italy. Operation Torch landing took place supported by air power. The allies didn’t want to fight, not even have a shit fired. -
Allied Invasion of Africa
In Germany, Hilter was so mad of the sucess of the allied invasion that he ordered forces to take the south of France into his reach. At the news of this, most of Vichy French forces in North Africa officially surrenered to the Allied forces. The German defense would remain in place into 1943 but the damage was already done. http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/operation-torch-the-allied-invasion-of-north-africa.asp -
Operation Gomorrah
The operation was between the RAF bomber command and the US army force joining together to create a bombing mission spanning 8 days and 4 nights. The Americans conducting the daylight raids with the British following after nightfall. The first bombing started by the RAF and lasted almost an hour. A second daylight raid by US Air Force was conducted. Than a third raid was conducted on the morning of the 26th. The night attack of July 26th was extremely light because a thunderstorm. -
Operation Gomorrah
Only two bomb drops reported. The night of July 27th, aircraft attacked Hamburg. It caused street asphalt to burst into flame, cooked people to death in air-raid shelters, sucked pedestrians off the sidewalks like leaves into a vacuum cleaner. Operation Gomorrah caused at least 50,000 deaths and left over a million German civilians homeless.
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. Germany had invaded France and was trying to take over all of Europe. Britain and the United States had managed to slow down the expanding German forces. The Germans knew that an invasion was coming. Germany didn't know was where the Allies would strike. It was almost cancelled due to bad weather. First the attack began with the paratroopers. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
They jumped at night in the pitch dark and landed behind enemy lines. Their job was to destroy key targets and capture bridges in order for the main invasion force to land on the beach. Thousands of dummies were also dropped in order to draw fire and confuse the enemy. Thousands of planes dropped bombs on German defenses. Warships began to bomb the beaches from the water. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
While the bombing was going on, underground members of the French Resistance sabotaged the Germans by cutting telephone lines and destroying railroads. By June 17th over half a million Allied troops had arrived and they began to push the Germans out of France.
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Battle of Bulge
Many thought that World War II in Europe was coming to an end. Adolf Hitler of Germany had different ideas. Early in the morning on December 16, 1945 Germany launched a major attack. It was winter and the weather was snowy and cold. The Americans were not ready for the attack. The Germans broke through the line and killed thousands of American troops. -
Battle of Bulge
They tried to advance quickly. Germany had English speaking German spies drop in behind the Allied lines. Many American soldiers held their ground. They did not want Hitler to take over again. Americans won the battle and sealed the fate of Hitler and the Nazi's in World War ll.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
y after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment. Many were so weak that they could hardly move. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131 -
Liberation of Concentration Cramps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp. Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp.They discovered, hundreds of thousands of men's suits, more than 800,000 women's outfits, and more than 14,000 pounds of human hair. Nazis began evacuating the camps. -
VE Day
The Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran W Germany. German collapse came after the meeting of the Western and Russian armies at Torgau in Saxony, and after Hitler's death amid the ruins of Berlin, which was falling to the Russians under their marshals. The unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at Reims on May 7 and ratified at Berlin on May 8.
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