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nazi takes the sudenland
hitler promise that sudenland was going to be the last place he was gonna take but hitler wasent a man of his word after he took the sudenland hitlers next target was poland.hitler promise to rip up the treaty of Versailles and claim back land that had been taken away from Germany.Hitler did not keep his word and six months later demanded that the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia be handed over to Germany.i chose this picture because it shows how the nazi were in the sudenland. -
Nazi take the Sudenland
In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, met Hitler at his home in Berchtesgaden. Hitler threatened to invade Czechoslovakia unless Britain supported Germany's plans to takeover the Sudetenland. After discussing the issue with the Edouard Daladier and Eduard Benes . Chamberlain informed Hitler that his proposals were unacceptable. Edouard Daladier agreed that Germany could have the Sudetenland.Hitler promised not to make any further.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.u -
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german blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg has had a profounder impact on warfare after than during World War II. Today, practically every army and larger militia has tanks and armored vehicles which are used the exact way that Blitzkrieg dictates – quick and precise attacks where it will hurt the enemy most. i chose this picture because it shows some of the soldiers marching. -
german blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was based on speed, co-ordination and movement. It was designed to hit hard and move on instantly. Its aim was to create panic amongst the civilian population. A civil population on the move can be absolute havoc for a defending army trying to get its forces to the war front. Doubt, confusion and rumour were sure to paralyse both the government and the defending military. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/blitzkrieg.htm -
ribbentrop / motolov pact
The pact was signed immediately after the agreement of 19 August, which granted the USSR 180 million marks for the purchase of German goods. It followed months of unsuccessful negotiations between the USSR on the one side and France and Great Britain on the other, and Soviet failure to organize an anti-Nazi diplomatic coalition.The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was one of the most important diplomatic acts in Soviet history.www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?... -
ribbentrop/ molotov pact
Under the terms of the treaty both countries agreed to remain neutral and to refrain from acts of aggression against each other if either went to war. Secret clauses allowed for the partition of Poland – Hitler was to acquire western Poland, Stalin the eastern part. On 1 September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. The pact ended when Hitler invaded Russia on 22 June 1941 during World War II. i chose this picture because its showing when the pact was signed -
german invasion of poland
With the land that Germany had taken,One section of land was incorporated into Germany, and the other section of land was converted into a "Gouvernement General" with Krakow as it's capital and Hans Frank as Nazi Administrator. Nazi Police Cheif Heinrich Himmler was designated to begin a merciless extermination of the Poles and Jews by firing squads and gas chambers.The eradication of Poland of six years began with mass execution,i chose this because it showed part of the war. -
germany's invasion of poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War IIhttp://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ -
battle of britain
Immediately after the defeat of France, Adolf Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain. The invasion plan was given the code name Sealion. The objective was to land 160,000 German soldiers along a forty-mile coastal stretch of south-east England. Within a few weeks the Germans had assembled a large armada of vessels, including 2,000 barges in German, Belgian and French harbours.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWbritainB.htm -
battle of britan
It not only prevented a German invasion, but transfomed the Royal Air Force. After the Battle, the Luftwaffe would no longer have a decided advantage when tangling with British fighters. This first became apparent in the Western Dessert. i chose this picture because it shows how the cities were after the bombs. -
nazi invation of the soviet union
It was to be no accident, therefore, that in this war of ‘annihilation’ the Soviets would suffer a death toll of 27 million people, nor that it would be in the context of this conflict in the East that the Nazis’ so called ‘Final Solution’ would emerge in its full exterminatory form.i chose this picture because it shows some soldiers and bombs that were being thrown. -
nazi invation of the soviet union
On December 18, 1940, Hitler declared that he wanted to attack the Soviet Union because it would give Germany the "space and resources needed for his master world." He also wanted to strike before England and the Union made an alliance. From July 1941 till the invasion, Hitler began to build his forces on the Eastern Front. Germany had a major non-battle victory when Romania and Finland both said they would help in the invasion of the Union. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212881/ir.html -
pearl harbor
The Japanese success was overwhelming, but it was not complete. They failed to damage any American aircraft carriers, which by a stroke of luck, had been absent from the harbor. They neglected to damage the shoreside facilities at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, which played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II. i chose this picture because it showes how a boat was attacked. -
pearl harbor
On an otherwise calm Sunday morning on December 7, 1941, the Japanese shocked the world by bombing the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.On December 8, the nation was gathered around its radios to hear President Roosevelt deliver his Day of Infamyspeech. That same day, Congress declared war on Japan. On December 11, Congress declared war on Germany.http://www.pearlharbor.org/ -
wannasee conference
meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” (Endlösung) to the so-called “Jewish question” (Judenfrage). On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring had issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich, SS (Nazi paramilitary corps) leader and Gestapo (Secret Police) chief, to prepare a comprehensive plan for this “final solution.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635490/Wannsee-Conference -
wannasee conferance
Heydrich was very content about the progress of the conference. Broadly speaking, he had accomplished what he desired: no-one had opposed his absolute authority in the matter of a solution to the Jewish question – on the contrary, several of the participants had declared themselves more than willing to lend a helping hand.I CHOSE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE ITS SHOWES THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE CONFERANCE. -
allied invasion of africa
When the U.S. and British strategists had decided on “Torch” (Allied landings on the western coast of North Africa) late in July 1942, it remained to settle the practical details of the operation. The purpose of “Torch” was to hem Rommel’s forces in between U.S. troops on the west and British troops to the east. After considerable discussion, it was finally agreed that landings, under the supreme command of Major General Dwight D.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648813/World-War-II/5356 -
ALLIED INVASION OF AFRICA
By late 1943, the balance of power had swung so much in favor of the Americans that they were able to dictate that the main effort in 1944 would focus on a landing in northwestern Europe. Despite considerable hesitation on the part of senior British leaders, including Churchill, American strategists forced this crucial change in Allied strategy — a change that would inevitably lead Anglo-American forces into the conquest of western Germany,i chose this picture because it shows how they came. -
battle of stalingard
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Twoin Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russiaand after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. One of the ironies of the war, is that the German Sixth Army need not have got entangled in Stanlingrad. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_stalingrad.htm -
BATTLE OF STANLINGARD
The outcome of the battle was the Soviets had a decisive victory over the Axis Powers. Both armies suffered heavy losses, bloody and a gruesome war but the Soviets came out succesful. I CHOSE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE IT SHOWS SOME OF THE SOLDIERS ON DUTTY. -
operation gomorrah
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operation gomorrah
RAF Bomber Command all but annihilated the German city of Hamburg at the close of July 1943. In the view of Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. Harris, the attacks on the so-called “second city of the Reich” were “incomparably more terrible” than any Germany had suffered to that point. The name bestowed on this series of raids seemed to fit its wrath-of-God nature. The RAF called it Operation Gomorrah. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/March%202007/0307gomorrah.aspx -
D-day
The Battle of Normandy was fought during World War II in the summer of 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe. More than 60 years later, the Normandy Invasion, or D-Day, remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving nearly three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1749.html -
liberation of concentration camps
In early April the third army advanced on the German cities of Gotha and Ohrdruf searching for Nazi communications. They found a labor camp.The guards and the officials of the concentration camp, desperate not to be caught, fled at our approaching attack and did not have time to kill the rest of the emancipated prisoners. http://www.808th.com/europe/05e_gotha.htm -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was on May 8th 1945. VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe. On Monday May 7th at 02.41. German General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document that formally ended war in Europe. Winston Churchill was informed of this event at 07.00. While no public announcements had been made, large crowds gathered outside of Buckingham Palace and shouted: “We want the King”.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ve_day.htm -
battle of the bulge
On December 16, three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. The once-quiet region became bedlam as American units were caught flat-footed and fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and, later, Bastogne, w\defended by the 101st Airborne Division. http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-the-bulge
