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WW2
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Nuremburg Laws
These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with people of " German or related blood". -
Kristallnacht
"Night of Crystal" reffered to "Night of broken glass". Thousands of synagogues and Jewish buisnesses and homes weere damaged or destroyed. -
St.Louis Affair
937 passengers and almost all were Jews fleeing from the third Reich. -
Munich Conference
The high point of the Western appeasement of Hitler. -
German Invasion of Poland
Treaty gave Hitler freedom to attack Poland. -
German Invasion of France
This would stop France from occupying them first. -
Dunkirk
Contrary to popular belief, what became known as "The Halt Order" did not originate with Adolf Hitler. -
Invasion of North Africa
Used as a jumping off point for invading Italy. -
Death Camps
Chelmno became the first built death camp to exterminate Jews and Gypsies. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan had taken notice of these islands as a potential threat to their expansion in the Pacific. -
Wake Island
They were all taken to one side of the Island and shot with machine guns. -
Wannsee Conference
"Final Solution" where Nazi's would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. -
Coral Sea
Major naval Battle in Pacific theater. -
Stalingrad
The German army's greatest defeat. -
Midway
Japenese could eliminate any future American threat in the central Pacific. -
Guadalcanal
Military campaign, denying their use by the Japenese to threaten the supply and communication. -
Bataan Death March
Held out in the jungles of Bataan for three months and were clearly starving and suffering from diseases. -
Tarawa
Occupied by Japanese, United States suffered heavy losses from Japanese soldiers. -
Tehran Conference
A meeting between Allied leaders to discuss strategies. -
Invasion of Italy
2,009 people were killed, 7,050 wounded, and 3,501 missing. -
Sicily Invasion
This invasion lasted for thirty-eight days. -
Fall of Rome
After the fall, 113 allied forces were pulled out of Italy. -
Battle of the Bulge
A key engagement of World War two. -
D-Day
One of the largest military assults in histiry and required extensive planning, -
Phillipines
American attack forced the Japenese to move their fleet to Singapore. -
Iwo Jima
Also called "Operation Detatchment". -
Yalta Conference
When they had the conference, their decisions changed the course of history. -
Death of FDR
He helped the American people. -
Nagasaki
Last major act on World War two. -
Hiroshima
First city ever targeted to be bombed by an atomic weapon. -
Trinity Test
The first Atomic test that took place. -
Firebombing of Tokyo
dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of 48 hours -
Enola Gay
Dropped the world's first atomic plane on Hiroshima and became World War two's most famous airplane. -
VE Day
Western allis crossed the Rhine after smashing through the Sigfried Line. -
Potsdam Conference
Many experts agreed that the harsh reparations imposed by the versailles treaty had handicapped the German's economy and fuled the rise of Nazis. -
Okinawa
Distinguished among battles, the landing would be reffered to as "L-Day" or "Love Day". -
VJ-Day
Surendered to the Allies, effectively ending.