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germany invades poland
some 15 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile border
employing a military strategy known as the blitzkrieg armored divisions smashed through enemy lines -
Germany invades france
Known as the fall of France
Was a two front war -
Germany Bombed London
instead of breaking morale however the raids only organised the will of the British people for the rest of the war
Over 300 bombers escorted by 600 fighters -
lend-lease
providing U.S military aid of foreign nations during world war 2
authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which congress appropriated money to the government of any country whose defense the president terms vital to the defense of the U.S -
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
lasted 2 hours
destroyed nearly 20 american naval vessel -
US declares war
congress approved a resolution declaring war with japan
the senate unanimously approved the resolution 88-0 -
Germany declared war on U.S
88 minutes long
four days after the Japanese attacks on pearl harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad
4.2 million killed
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city -
D-Day
On the morning of June 5, 1944, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history. -
U.S Bombed Japan
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Battle of Midway
lasted June 4 threw June 7 1972
six months after pearl harbor
