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Germany invades Poland
This lead to world war 2 Hitler claimed it was a defensive action and Britain and France didn't believe him so they declared war on Germany. It happen because Hitler said it would be living space for Germans. The impact of this battle lead to world war 2. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland -
United States giving Britain war supplies
The U.S didn't join the war but they were supplying United Kingdom and other nations that were at war with Germany. So they could defend them selves from Germany. The U.S was neutral they would help other nations except for Germany. This gave them more support from nations and it was helping taking down Germany. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/lend-lease -
Germany invades France and captures Paris
It was the collapse of France, just six weeks after Hitlers initial assault, ripped up the balance of power in Europe. Dr Gary Sheffield considers the dramatic and unexpected defeat of the Allied forces in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France -
Beginning of the battle of Britain
The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident. Luftwaffe bombers aimed for military targets on the outskirts of London drifted off course and instead dropped their bombs on the center of London destroying homes and killing civilians. Germany lost there first war.
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Germany invading Soviet Union
Hitler sent three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. This had a big impact on WW2 because its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler sent his troops eastward for a massive invasion to attack the soviet Union. They wanted more land and this affected war because Germany had to defend to sides in war. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military attack by the Japanese against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. They did this because they didn't want the U.S. Fleet interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia. This was a big affect because this is why the U.S joined the war. -
United States declaring war on Japan and Germany
They declared war on Japan because they pulled a surprise attack against them so they had to fight back and the Germans declared war on them because they supported other nations the Germans didn't and the Germans saw that the U.S was finally gonna enter the war. This was a big affect in war because this meant the U.S could no longer be neutral. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-united-states-declares-war-on-japan -
Bataan Death March
This was when they American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.This was that biggest lose for the Americans on the Pacific. This become know as the death march because thousands of didn't make it because of the intense heat. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march -
Battle of Midway
The U.S had a big advantage because of code breaking, the United States was able to counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers because they knew there plan.This had a big impact on the Pacific campaign, this win allowed the United states to be more in an offensive position. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This was when the Jewish started to revolt against the Nazis they would stop deportations to Nazi extermination camps. This made other Jewish extermination camps revolt so it was like a big train everyone started to follow along. This Jewish ghetto was blocked by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards, and anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944. The soviet Union and America and British were the ones who liberated the camps. As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/liberation-of-nazi-camps -
Battle of the Bulge
American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge -
D-Day
American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. One of the largest invasions ever. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. It was some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II. 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Japan
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic bombs in war. The U.S. was developing an atomic weapon because they found out Nazi Germany was researching atomic weapons. This was because Japan attack Pearl Harbor. Hundred of Thousands of people died and the effects are still being felt today. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
