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German invasion of Poland
The Germans invasion of Poland triggered the war to break out since it caused France and Britain to delcare war on Germany. -
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Evacuation of Denmark
With warnings of an attack by Germany and being ignored was a fault of Denmark. On the invasion Germany was not wanting to kill people just take over the territory for defense against other countries. -
German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
The Germans invaded Denmark and Norway securing Hitler's northern front and having both air and naval bases closer to Britain. A month later both land and air attacked Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. -
Invasion and fall of France
France was being encouraged to resist the German attacks by Britain but Britain did not help with military support. In the end France lost and signed an armistice with Germany. Hitler wanted it to be done on a railway car that Germany surrendered to France in WWI. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was mainly an air warfare fought between Germany and the Allied Air forces which defeated the Luftwaffe and from the poilots the Polish had th highest scoring squadron within the Allied Air forces. -
Operation of Barbarossa
The Operation was a violation of the non-aggression with Stalin which was to have more space for the Reich in the east. Also Operation of Barbarossa was a name given to the invasion of U.S.S.R. -
Japan attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an unexpected inasion of The Japanese and took out several warships, and other fleets of the U.S and killing nearly 2,400 americans during the attack. -
Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway was a turning point of WWII and was a naval battle with Japanese. The main tactic was to have America go to Midway and leave Pearl Harbor some what defensless. -
Battle of El Alamein
El Alamein was at the upper area of Africa and was the area where the allies of North Africa had their last stand and lead to the surrender of Germany in May 1943 -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point of WWII because instead of retreating Hitler chose to keep fighting and he lost an enitire German army against the Russians. The Americans also helped the Russians by material help which allowed them to gain and keep their offensive. -
Operation Husky
This event was an invasion on Sicily to give an open area for ships to pass through in the Mediterranean -
D-Day
The battle was fought in Normandy and was a large invasion from the Americans, British, Canadians that was fought on the beach and to drive Germany away. -
Bombing of Dresden
An important fact about this event was that Dresden was not affected by the war until it was bombed near the end of the war ands killed thousands of innocent people -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was when America had Japan to finally destroy their mechant ships to cut off their supplies to the mainland. America also bombed their industrial base. -
Battle of Okinawa
Was the largest assualt in the Pacific war and was mainly planned to use Okinawa as an air operation base was taken over. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which out of its 200,000 residents it killed 70,000. The bombing of Nagasaki killed an estimate of 40,000 residents. -
Signing of peace treaty between U.S and Japan
The peace treaty was signed on the battleship USS Missouri and the treaty ended all of Japans further war plans.
