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Nazis take the Sudetenland
Sudetenland was a part of Germany until World War 1, and then it became a part of Czechoslovakia. When Adolf Hitler came to Germany, he wanted to march into Czechoslovakia but the generals told him that Czechoslovakia has a good army and good mountain defenses so it would be very difficult country to overcome.Also if Britain, France or the Soviet Union joined with Czechoslovakia,Germany would be badly defeated.Hitler threatened that he would invade Czechoslovakia unless Britain supported Germany -
The Sundetenland
I chose this picture to show all the land Germany acquired from the Munich Agreement -
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Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
On August 23, 1939, people from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non –Aggression pack, which guaranteed that those two countries could not attack each other. This pact was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later on June 22, 1941. This event took place because Hitler wanted a pact with the Soviet Union so that he could prepare a war. He wanted to also acquire Poland without using force. His idea was to have a two front war. -
Ribbentrop/Molotrov Pact
In world War, Germany lost because they had a split in their forces. So he was determined to not make those same mistakes again. The first pact they signed was that the Soviet Union had to provide food products as well as raw materials to Germany to exchange for furnished products such as machinery. This agreement helped Germany bypass the British blockade during the first years of war. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
On September 1st 1939 at 4:45 am, a German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the polish garrison which became the first military engagement of World War Two.Adolf Hitler’s decision was a gamble.The German army was not at full strength and the German economy was still locked into peacetime production. -
The Invasion Of Poland
Hitler was aided by public opinion in the west, which regarded thr Treaty of Versailles thta was flawed and held the belief that communism rather than facism posed the greater threat to western democracies (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/invasion_poland_01.shtml) I chose this image to show all the lives killed in this event. -
German Blitzkrieg
Back in the day, Germany's stragety was to have short campaigns to defeat their opponets. by this, Germany overran Europe and was sucessful for more than two yearsby relying on their new military tactic "Blitzkrieg" meaning lightning war. They used forces that would drive a breach in enemy defences, permitting armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind the enemy lines, causing a shock among the enemy defences. By being in a plane, it prevented the enemy from adequantely -
German Blitzkrieg
resupplying or redeploying forces and from sending reinforcements to seal breaches in the front. Germany used Blitzkrieg tatic against Poland, Denmark,Norway,Belgium, the Netherlands,Luxembourg,France,Yugoslavia, and Greece.
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Battle of Britain
However, Goering grew fustrated by the larger number of British planes that were still fighting off his attacks. Then the Luftwaffe switched their tactics again, on hitler's orders, set about destroying London and and other major cities. Eleven days later, what became known as 'Battle of Britain'
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Battle of Britain
On June 18, 1940 Winston Churchill gave a speech for the British saying "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain ia about to begin." Well guess what? Churchill was very right. Four days later, France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain. The battle began in mid-July. The Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English Channel and attcking coastal towns and defences. -
Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, it was the biggest German military operation of World War Two. The core policies since the 1920's were 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. On December 18, 1940 Adolf Hitler signed Directive 21 (code name operation "Barbarossa") the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
On the rise of eight in the morning on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack lasted just two hours, but this attack was devasting. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight hugebattleships, and almost 200 airplanes. more than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died on this tragic event and 1,000 were wounded. -
Pearl Harbor
tragic event. A day after this tragety, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked our Congress to declare war on Japan, obviously, Congess said yes but, with just one dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany,and Italy also declared war against the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. After more than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War Two.
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Wannsee Conference
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Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government offcials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the inplementation. Repressenting the SS at the meeting were SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Heinrich Himmler's top deputies: SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, (chief of the RSHA Department IV B 4 Jewishs Affairs) SS Colonel Eberhard Schongarth, commander of the RSHA field office for the Governm -
Wannsee Conference
commander of the RSHA field office for the Government General in Krakow, Poland; SS Major Rudolf Lange, commander of RSHA Einatzkommando 2, deployed in Lativa in the autumn of 1941, and SS Major General Otto Hofmann. The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical, annihilation of the European Jews. Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Many historians believed that the turning point of World War Two was The Battle of Stalingrad. This battle bled the Geran army dry in Russia and afer its defeat, the Germany Army was in full regret. One irony of the war was that the German Sixth Army need not to have gotten entangled in Stalingrad. The Army Groups A and B were well on the way to the Causasus in south west Russia. When Hitler ordered an attack on Stalingrad. But it would've been wise if the Germans didnt attack Stalingrad because -
The Battle of Stalingrad
attack Stalingrad because many histoians believed that the only reason Hitler wanted to attack, is because he disliked Joseph Stalin. This battle was fought during the winter of 1942-43. The Germans took a great deal of the city of Stalingrad, but, failed to fully assert their authority.
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Allied Invasion of Africa
The Allied Invasion of Africa was planned through Operation Torch. This compined invasion was comprized of the US Western Tank Force, The US Central Task Force and the compined US/British Eastern Task Force. Each task force help between 23,000 and 39,000 troops.Many US gererals wanted an all-out invasion of Europe, U.S President Franklin Roosevelt trusted his counterpart British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on establishing a second front across Northern Africa. -
Allied Invasion of Africa
Winston Churchill on establishing a second front across Northern Africa. This move (if it was sucessful) would contain German expansion to Europe, block off vital shipping lanes in the Mediterranean and provide the Allies with a jump off point into Italy. On Novemeber 8th, 1942, this event took place. The German defense would remain in place into 1943 but the damage was already done.
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Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gommorrah destroyed a massive amount of the city Hamburg, leaving over one million residents homeless and killing 40,000-50,000 civilians. These raids shook the Nazi leadership severely, leading Hitler to be concerned that similar raids on other cities could force Germany out of the war.Winston Churchill and Air Chief Marshal Authur "Bomber" Harris, called for a coordinated, sustained bombing campaign against -
Operation Gomorrah
against the German city of Hamburg. On May 27th,1943, Harris signed the Bomber Command Order No.173 authorizing the operation to move foward.The night of July 24 was selected for the first strike.What they used for attack was an H2S radar scanning system which provided bomber crews with TV image of the ground,and also was a system known as window meaning foil strips carried by each bomber. Gommorrah cause a inferno so blazing hot nobody could calm it down http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/aer -
D_Day (Normandy Invasion)
55,000 vehicles, and 105,000 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.
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D- Day (Normandy Invasion)
The Battle of Normandy was faught during World War Two in the summer of 1944, between the Allied nations andd German forces occupyingWestern Europe. More than 60 years later, the Normandy (or D-Day), remains to be the largest seaborne invasion in history. The Twelve Allied nations included Canada, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kindom, and the United States. Operation Neptune was an assult phase, or the esablishment of secure -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
assult phase, or the esablishment of secure foothold began on June 6th,1944 and ended on June 30th. More than 300 planes droppws 13,000 bombs over Normandy in advance of the invasion. Six papachute regiments with more than 13,000 men also went to cut railroad lines, blow up bridges and seize landing fields.By nightfall on June 6th, more than 9,000 soldiers were dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore and secured French coastal villages. By June 11thl more than 326,000 troops, -
Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Many Concentration Camps were liberated acrossed Europe by Alllied troops during April of 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camps. On April 11th 1945, the camp in Germany was liberated by the U.S. Army and around 21,000 prisoners were found.
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VE Day
VE day was the day to the public that they finally announced that World War Two was over. German General Jodi signed the unconditional surrender document that ended the war in Europe. Winston Churchill was the person who announced the end of the war which was gathered in huge groups. However, Joseph Stalin had differing views on how the surrender should be announced caused by the delay
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler ordered the onky major German counteroffensive of the war in northwest Europe in December 1944.On December 16th three German armies launched the most deadlist, most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavliest forested Ardennes. A German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of Americans troops fighting in the frozen forests proved fatal to Hitler's ambition to snach if not victory at least a draw with the Allies in the west. -
