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The Path To War
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Austrian Anschluss
Hitler threatened to invade German-Speaking Austria unless Astrian Nazis were given important government posts. -
The Anschluss
Hitler sends troops into Austria and anounced the Anschluss of Austria and Germany. -
The Munich Conference
Britain and France agreed to Hitlers demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement, or made concessions in exchange for peace. -
Hitler Demands Danzig
A month after the Munich Conference, Hitler demands that the city of Danzig be under German control. -
Hitler Invades
Hitler sent troops in to Czechoslovakia and divided the country, Slovakia was actually independent in name, but it was under German control. -
Hitlers Demands
Britain announced that if Poland went to war to defend its territory, the British and French would come to its aid. -
The Reformed Blitzkrieg
German troops parachuted into the Netherlands, tanks rolled into Belgium and Luxembourg. The British and French expected the attack and raced into Belgium. -
Hitlers Orders
Hitler ordered the German army to invade Poland. He also ordered his foreign minister to begin negotiations with the USSR. -
The Rescue Attempt
French, Dutch, and Belgian ships joined the british ones in operation dynamo. 45,000 troops were expected to be rescued but instead they rescued an estimated 338,000 British and French troops... this was known as the "Miracle of Dunkirk" -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The nonagression pact was signed by Germany and the USSR, Communism and Nazism were supposed to be totally opposed to each other. -
The War Begins
Germany invaded Poland, two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. WW2 had begun!! -
Blitzkrieg
The Blitzkrieg used large numbers of massed tanks to break through the and encircle enemy positions, aircraft supported also. After Germans bombed their positions and cut their supply lines, Warsaw, the Polish capitol, fell to Germany. -
Germany Wins!!
The Germans had defeated the Polish army. -
Britain Remains Defiant
Winston Churchill delivered a defiant speech in parliament, vowing that Britain would never surrender. -
Hitler Accepts Surrender
The French surrendered to the Germans in the same railway car that the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1. Germany now occupied most of northern France and its atlantic coastline. -
Germay Begins Attacking The British
The German Luftwaffe begins to attack British shipping in the English Channel. -
The Accidental Bombing
German Bombers accidentally bombed London, the British capital. This attack enraged the British, who responded by bombing Berlin the following night. -
The Battle Of Britain.
In mid August the German Luftwaffe launched a massive air attack to destroy the Royal Air Force, it lasted into the fall of 1940. -
Hitler Cancels Attack
Hitler cancels the invasion of Britain. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese executed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they had no idea about an attack. -
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Ameria Enters World War II
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America declares war on Japan
America is frustrated from the Pearl Harbor, we inturn declare war on Japan. -
Japan storms the Philippines.
Two days after Pearl Harbor was bombed the Japs attacked American airfields in the Philippines. The forces there were greatly outnumbered. -
America decalres war on Germany
America declares war on Germany. -
The bomber switch.
A military planner suggested to replace the short-range bombers with long-range B-25's that could attack from further away. -
Decoded messages.
Decoded Japanese messages alerted the US to the attack on New Guinea. -
Getting ready for war.
At the end of March, a crane loaded 16 B-25 bombers onto an aricraft carrieer named the Hornet. -
Bataan Peninsula surrenders.
The defenders of the Bataan Peninsula finally surrender. -
High point for the Germans.
In the spring, the German submarine campaign was at its highest point. -
Hitler has too much confidence!
In the spring, before the the battle of the Atlantic, Adolf Hitler was very confident that he would win the war. -
Hello Japan!
American bombs fell on Japan for the first time. -
Fire fight
In early May, carriers from America and Japan lauched all out airstrikes against one another. -
Corregidor surrender.
The small force that was holding the island of Corregidor finally surrenders. The Philippines have fallen to the Japs. -
Hitler attacks... again..
Hitler ordered the capture of strategic oil fields, factories, and farmlands in southern Russia and Ukraine. -
Ambushed!!
Unaware they were heading into an ambush, the Japs launched an aircraft attack on midway. -
Lets invade!!
Roosevelt agreed and ordered the invasion of Morocco and Algeria. -
Thank god for mass production!
From this point onward, American shipyards produced more ships than the German submarines could manage to sink. -
Ships are sunk.
German submarines sunk about 360 American ships along the East Coast. -
German troops enter Stalingrad
In mid-September, Stalin ordered his troops to hold the city of Stalingrad at all costs. -
Please retreat.
General Erwin Rommel, commanded the Afrika Korps but was forced to retreat by the British. -
Soviets outnumber the Germans
Soviet reinforcements arrived and surrounded Stalingrad, trapping almost 250,000 German troops. -
The battle of Stalingrad ends.
Some 91,000 Germans had surrendered. -
German troops surrender.
The last of the German troops that were in North Africa surrender. -
Japanese prisoners.
After the Bataan death march, sixty-six women nurses were captured and sent to the University of Santo Tomas in Manilla whare they remained until early 1945.
