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Nazis take the Sudetenland
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Nazis take the Sudetenland
1) Hitler decided that he wanted the Sudetenland to expand his territory, and have more resources. He was willing to take the land by force, but as Britain and France didn’t want war with Hitler, decided on compromise. On September 29th, Hitler met with the prime ministers or Britain, France, and Italy to reach an agreement. The next day, the Sudetenland became a part of Germany, and in the future ends up causing World War 2. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/sept-30-1938-hitler-grant -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
2) The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was when Nazis representatives and the Soviet Union signed a non- aggressive pact in august of 1939. Germany signed the pact because in WW1, Germany’s army was split to cover both sides of the front, and Hitler didn’t want to make the same mistakes that cost Germany the war in the 1st place. Germany, henceforth, was able to conquer Poland starting the beginning of ww2. http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/nonaggression.htm -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
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Gremany's Invasion of Poland
3) At the beginning of September, Germany’s armies troop into polish territory. They had invaded Poland. Germany’s armies took down the Poland troops in a matter of weeks. Germany wanted to invade Poland because, under the treaty of Versailles, parts of Germany were given to Poland. Once Germany invaded them, Germany got back there lost land, giving them a small victory. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070 -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
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German Blitzkrieg
The reason for the blitzkrieg tactic was to have a shortened war, and by using this tactic, they took over Poland in only a few weeks. . http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437 I chose this picture because it is a good visualization of how the convoy would have looked in the attack. -
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German Blitzkrieg
4) The blitzkrieg was a new tactic that the Germans used in the invasion of Poland. Basically what it was is when you drive big offensive weapons up to your enemy’s territory, break their defenses, and roam freely in enemy territory. The Germans used this tactic to invade many other places besides Poland, like Denmark, Norway, Belgium, etc. -
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Battle of Britian
The battle of Britain wasn’t really a battle of soldiers. It was a battle of the air fighters of Britain and Germany to gain the advantage of the sky. The Germans planned on bombing the airfields of Great Britain, but then switched to bombing strategic areas, but to no avail. The RAF got a break, and Germany couldn’t take Britain as their own. It was one of the 1st losses for Germany in ww2. http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/qt/battleofbritain.htm -
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Nazis invade the Soviet Unoin
Hitler had wanted the Soviet Union, for there military force and primary land. The non-aggression pact had only been made for tactical maneuvers. But after Germany had taken France and other countries, Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union. Germany invaded them in June of 1941, and with a strong army of 650,000 troops, stormed into the their territory. After months of fighting, the Germans were getting tired, (didn't have the the right amounts of food and medicines), -
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Nazis invasion of the Soviet Unoin
and the soviets managed to push them back, for a while. But then Germany took the offensive side again and pushed through their forces until they got to the Caspian Sea in September of 1942, where they got to their farthest geographical extension of Europe. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164 -
Pearl Harbor
7) In December of 1941 Japanese fighter planes bomb American naval bases at Pearl Harbor. The attack only lasted 2 hours, but the results were devastating. Japan attacked us because we cut the ties with them, and without our imports, they wouldn’t be able to expand anymore. But that only made japan stand their ground. Neither side would budge, and japan happened to make the first move. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor killed around 2,500 men, crippled or destroyed 18 American ships, and 300 airplanes. http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor I chose this picture because it shows the amount of damaged that was caused in a very short time. -
Wannsee Conference
8) Hitler was a very racist man, and did not care for the Jewish people because of their religion. So he decided to do something about it. The Wannsee Conference was a conference held by 15 senior bureaucrats, and it was to discuss the “Jewish question”, which was what to do with the Jews. An earlier idea was to send them off to Madagascar, but was deemed unpractical during wartime. So the new idea was to get all the Jews “to move eastward and work in labor camps.” -
Wannsee Conference
.” But what they were really saying was to put them into concentration camps and murder them. This conference was the beginning of what we know as the Holocaust. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635490/Wannsee-Conference I chose this picture because it shows the building that the conference happened, where one of the scariest decisions took place. -
Battle of Stalingrad
. They battled for months, Germany pushing the soviets back to the edge of the city. But the soviets were preparing for a counter-attack, and with Germany running out if supplies, it was the perfect time. They launched their new armies, and Germany was forced to surrender in the end. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwarii/p/World-War-Ii-Battle-Of-Stalingrad.htm I chose this picture because it shows the death that was caused from the war. -
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Battle of Stalingard
The battle of Stalingrad was when the Germans were in Russia, and taking over small cities. It was close to winter time, and the Germans were getting deeper and deeper into Russia. They decided to take on Stalingrad, passing a big city without conquering it first, some say because the city was named after Joseph Stalingrad, one of Hitler’s enemies. The German army was led by General Friedrich Paulus' 6th Army with General Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army helping the south. -
Allied Invasion of Africa
. http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/operation-torch-the-allied-invasion-of-north-africa.asp I chose this picture because it shows how and where we took over North Africa. -
Allied Invasion of Africa
) In order to stop the Germans, the Allies decide to invade North Africa. If they could conquer northern Africa, they could stop necessary materials getting to the Germans, and give them the advantage. This invasion was called operation torch. It started with us battling out Hitler’s Vichy French soldiers, which we succeeded in doing. Then other cities and airfields fell under the Allies control later on. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was the Allies plan to expand bombing. They decided that you have to bomb the entire target city to do damage. So that’s what they did. The operation lasted from July 24 to July 30th that same month.They bombed the city of Hamburg, causing around 42,600 deaths, and 40,000 wounded. http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/07/the-other-hiroshima-hamburg-operation-gomorrah-summer-1943.html I chose this picture because it shows just how much damage one bomb can cause -
D-Day (Normandy invasion)
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq109-1.htm I chose this picture because it shows the Allies point of view, what their seeing at the time. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
The D-Day battle was where the allies took over the 5 German beaches (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword) in an operation called NEPTUNE. The Allies started this operation on July 5th, where thousands of ships were sent to fight off the Germans on the shores. Different divisions took over different beaches, but at nightfall on the 6th the beach belonged to the Allies. From this day on, the Allies had the advantage point, and this event is the beginning of the end for the Nazis and Hitler. -
battle of the Bulge
The Germans were pushed back, and the Americans on that same day were able to get to an important road junction, and fought off German soldiers in the bulge. The Allies were able to come out on top, winning the battle of the bulge against the Germans. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006178 I chose this picture because it shows how brutal the conditions were at the time, (they fought in sub- zero weather sometimes) -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the bulge was the Germans last big counter-attempt to get rid of the Allies, once and for all. The Germans planned to weaken the Allies’ forces by separating the American and British armies. On December 16, hundreds of thousands of German tanks and troops penetrated the American line. Even though the Germans did advance in some places, the Americans were able to hold them off until reinforcements came. -
Liberation of Comcentration camps
The liberation of concentration camps did not take place until April 4th, when the American army found the slave labor camp. Then they liberated 2 more concentration camps, in Buchenwald and the Harz Mountains. 4 days later, the British army liberated its first concentration camp, Bergen Belsen. They liberated other camps along the way as well, like Neuengamme. They liberated all the camps, and sometimes even burn the camps, like the British did after getting all the Jews out if the camp. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
. When people found out about the camps, they began to despise Nazis Germans, and Germany altogether. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml I chose this picture because it shows how brutal the Germans were to the Jews, and how they were when they died, the state they were in. -
VE Day
May 8, 1945. Hitler’s war is officially over, and people are celebrating all over the world as the 60 year reign of terror is finally over. People called this day, VE day (victory of Europe day), to celebrate the end of World War 2 and peace among the countries. As the days led up o may 8, people knew the end of the war was coming. -
VE Day
The German forces in Italy surrendered on May 2nd, 2 senior generals went to surrender their forces at the headquarters of Bernard Montgomery, and the last document of surrender was signed at Dwight Eisenhower’s headquarters, on the 7th. After that day, Europe was free of Hitler’s raid for good. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml I chose the picture I did because it shows how happy everyone was that the war was finally over after lasting so long.
