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Maginot Line
The Maginot line is a defensive barrier in northeast France, it was an array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, it was meant to prevent invasion. It impacted World War 2 because it provided France with protection from the attacks from Germany. -
Rape of Nanjing
The rape of Nanjing was another word for the Nanjing Massacre, in where there was a huge killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens, there was about 100,000 to more than 300,000 Chinese killed, after the seizure of Nanjing China many soldiers surreded to the Japan Imperial Army. This Massacre held horrific events, such as 20,000 and 80,000 women were assaulted, by December 13 the first troops of Japan entered the city and destroyed it and killed so many families. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss was a political union of Austria with Germany that was achieved throught the annexation of Adolf Hitler on March 13, 1938. German troops marched into Austria to annex the German speaking nation for the Third Reich on March 12, 1983. The Anschluss was made when Austrian Chancellor met with Hitler in hopes of reasserting his country’s independence, but instead this meeting did not get anywhere, by March 12th Hitler marched onto Austria and appointed a new Nazi government. -
The Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was where Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy made an agreement that permitted Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechosloovakia, which was signed on Sept 29, 1938. This conference was to avoid another war and settle an argument with Germany, at the end of this conference Hitler gained what he wanted, which was the dominance of Central Europe. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was when Germany invaded Poland, the German forces that were under control by Adolf Hitler bombarded Poland on land from the air, the reason they started to invade Poland was because the Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland, also Germany wanted to regain the territory that they had lost, and they wanted to rule their neighbor to the east. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was a contest between the western allies and the axis powers for the control over the Atlantic sea routes, this battle had 3 main objectives for the Allies, one was the blockade of the axis power in Europe, the security of the Allied sea movements, and the freedom to project the military power across the seas, but the objectives of the Axis was to frustrate Allies use of the Atlantic to wage war, by mid 1939 the battle was in favored of the Allies. -
Siege of Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad (or also called 900-day siege) is where German forces closed in around the solvent city of Leningrad, which initiated a siege that would last around 900 days, and also claimed the lives of 800,000 civilians, although the siege was supposed to last 900 days but it merely lasted 872 days and also resulted in millions of deaths of civilians and Red Army defenders. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack in Pearl Harbor was where the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy in Pearl Harbor. Hundreds of Japanese fighter and bombers flew to Pearl Harbor, the bombers dropped torpedoes and bombs onto the ships, and the fighter planes attacked the U.S fighter planes so they could not take off and attack back. This attack destroyed many ships and also killed many soldiers, it killed about 2,390 citizens, 49 civilians and 2,341 navy and about 1,178 people were wounded. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a clash between the U,S navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, which played 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor The Japanese wanted to make a surprise attack on the U.S Navy, but the U.S. had already cracked there code, so when the Japanese sent out a message, descaling where they were going to launch the surprise attack, the U.S. was prepared, and by the evening on June 4th the major combat was over. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alemein began when Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was brought to a standstill in the battle for control of North Africa, Rommel decided to attack on July 1 but was then counterattacked by British commander. By mid-July Rommel was still at El-Alamein, blocked, Rommel was on defensive, The Allied lost the first battle, 13,250 people were killed and 150,000 troops were wounded, for the Axis, around 10,000 killed and 96,000 people in troops were wounded. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of the Nazi Germany and the axis power of World War 1, this battle is well known as one of the larges, longest and bloodiest engagements in the modern warfar, this battle lasted from August 22, 1942 to February 2, 1943. Around 2 million people were killed or injured during this battle Russians considered it to be one of the greatest battles of the Great Patriotic War. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
D-Day also known as Normally Invasion or Operation Overlord was during World War 2, it was when 154,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of a fortified coast of France Normandy region, this invasion was known as one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and also required extensive planning, and by late August of 1944, all of northern France had been liberated and also the allies defeated Germany. -
Kamikaze
A Kamikaze attack were a Japanese suicide bombing tragic, kamikaze meant “Divine Wind”, there were designed to destroy enemies warships during World War 2, in where pilots would crash into an allied ship. They impacted World War 2 because the kamikaze attacks sank 34 ships and damaged many others during the war and Around 3,000 Americans and Brits died because of these attacks.