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Germany invades Poland
Hitler breaks agreement and invades Czech then turns sites on Poland. Nonaggression Pact Hitler & Stalin agree to not attack one another and to divide Poland. Allows Hitler to not have to fight a two front war. September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland with new military
strategy. Blitzkrieg – take the enemy by surprise &quickly defeat.
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Germany invades France
Fall of France is when Hitler invades thru Belgium in May and by June controls France. France had fallen to Germany & Britain was struggling with constant air strikes.
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Germany Bombs London
London kept getting bombed by Germany, they were bombed 57 consecutive times. People started to get sheltered in underground facilities. There was about 40,000 total deaths by the end of the bombing.
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Lend Lease Act
U.S. would lend arms or other supplies to our allies. Compared this to lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire. Hitler tried to prevent Lend-Lease aid by sending German U-boats to attack ships.
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Operation of Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler sent his troops eastward for a massive invasion in the soviet union. The army had over three million troops and three thousand tanks ready for battle. Hitlers troops prepared for that day. In the end of the war it was a complete fail for Hitler's troops
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Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
The FDR froze Japanese financial assets & stopped exporting oil to Japan. The Japanese wanted to build an empire, so they did not care about peace. 2,403 people died and 21 ships that sunk or damaged. -
United States vs Japan
President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States was suffering heavy losses in the Japanese home islands. The Americans then dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima. There was about 10,000 people dead.
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Germany vs.United States
The failure of the new deal was the real cause of the conflict between Germany and the United states. Germany declared war on the U.S. and Hitler believed the Americans were ready for the battle.
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Bataan Death March
The Filipinos and Americans were forced to march 65 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando by the Japanese. Many of the people did not survive, they died from starvation on the march. The others who did survive, eventually died from diseases, starvation, or mistreatment.
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Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. The fleet engagement between U.S. and Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction at Pearl Harbor.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
After the invasion of Poland, more than 40,000 Jews in Warsaw were moves to an area that was about 1 square mile. The Jewish ghetto then was sealed with big brick walls and barbed wire so nobody was able to escape. Thousands of people died each month from starvation, diseases, or being killed.
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Battle of Normandy
It resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The invasion was one of the biggest amphibious military assaults in history. There was about 156,000 people, on 5 beaches that were about 50 miles long.
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Battle of the bulge
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. The objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously–in September 1870, August 1914, and May 1940.
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Iwo Jima Battle
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. The battle was located 750 miles away from Japan which was the island of Iwo Jima.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Many prisoners survived from starvation and diseases when the allied troops discovered the concentration camps. The Soviet forces were the first to encounter large camps. The Germans tried to demolish the camps as fast as they could before the Soviet forces found their evidence.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing
During World War, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out at least 90 percent of the population. Then there was another bomb dropped three days later from the first one.
