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nazis take the sudetenland
The Sudetenland was taken away from Germany and the Austria-Hungarian Empire and given to Czechoslovakia. This event took place on September 30th 1938. This was the start of World War 2. Hitler wanted to take over Sudetenland to add more land to Germany. In the end Hitler took over and started WWII. -
Ribbentrop/molotov pact
On August 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a non- aggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. Hitler was preparing for war. Germany and Russia would have a successful invasion of Poland. They planned on invading Poland in April. After they took over Poland, the british declared war. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
On September 1st 1939 Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of invasion. From Eastern Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south German units with more than 2000 tanks and over 1000 planes broke through Polish defenses along the border. The outcome of this event was a large amount of Polish people died -
German Blitzkreig
The next blow came a month later. May 10, the Germans unleashed their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium. The attack sent the defending troops reeling. The roads overflowed with refugees fleeing the front. French and British troops rushing to the rescue were caught in the headlong retreat and pushed back. The outcome of this event was, the Germans defeated the military, and much damage was done. -
Battle of Britian
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II. This event occurred June 17th 1940. The outcome of this event was, Britain was now standing alone against the German army, because France had quit the war. -
Pearl Harbor
Sunday, December 7, 1941, 183 Japanese warplanes swooped out of a cloudless sky and bombed the US Pacific fleet docked at Pearl Harbor. It was this single catastrophic event, not the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain or the persecution of the Jews, that finally dragged the United States into World War II. The outcome of this event was the U.S entered WWII -
Nazi Invasion of the soviet union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s.This happened on June 22nd 1941. The outcome of this event was the take over of the soviet union -
D-day (Normandy invasion)
On June 6th 1944 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. -
VE day
Victory for Europe came on may 8th 1946 VE day was the day they officialy announced the end of world war II. Europe. On Monday May 7th at 02.41. German General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document that formally ended war in Europe.While no public announcements had been made, large crowds gathered outside of Buckingham Palace -
Liberation of Consentration Camps
Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance, the Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp. Camp staff set fire to the large crematorium used to burn bodies of murdered prisoners, but in the hasty evacuation the gas chambers were left standing. -
Battle of the Bulge
In late 1944, in the wake of the allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. But on December 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. The battle that ensued is known historically as The Battle of the Bulge.
