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german blitkrieg
[source](www.history.com/topic/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg)
known as the phony war. not much happened. british wanted to send air force troops to bomb german targets. when all failed, on june 22 of 1940 france signed an armistice with germany, leaving britian to fight alone. -
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germany's invasion of poland
[source](www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland)
adolf hitler's first major policy after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with poland. this was used in order to neutralize the possibility of french-polish military alliance against germany before germany had a chance to re-arm -
battle of britain
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain)
the battle of britain was hte german air forces attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from july to septermber of 1940. the luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the english channel and attacking coastal towns and defences. -
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fall of paris
[source](www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris)
parisians wake to the sounds of a german voice announcing a curfew is to be at 8 p.m. by teh time teh germans had arrived 2 million parisians had already fled. -
pearl harbor
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor)japan launches a surprise attack on american soil. just before 8 a.m. on december 7,1941, hundreds of japanese fighter planes attacked teh american naval base at pearl harbor min honolulu hawaii. -
battle of the coral sea
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-coral-sea)
marked as the first air-sea battle in history. rear admiral frank j. fletcher commanded american task forces. america connected first by sinking the japanese ship shoho. they then damaged the shokaku. teh americans lost the lexington. -
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battle of midway
[source](www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway)
the japanese threw almost their entire fleet into the battle. they used six aircraft carriers, eleven battleships, thirteen cruisers, and forty five destroyers. tehy also had submarines. it too only five minutes if even tat to chaneg the tide of battle -
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battle of stalingrad
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad)
the russians named it the contemporary cannae. the germans named it the rat war. this war was alo known as the turning point in the war in the eastern front. -
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allied invasion of italy
[source](www.history/this-day-in-history/allies-invade-italian-mainland)
benito mussolini, the italian dictator, wanted to turn fascist italy into a new roman empire.within three days 150,000 troops had arrived to take over. and on april 28th of 1945italian partisans captured mussolini and executed him. -
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operation thunderclap
some german targets included: dresden, berlin, leipzig, and chemnitz.
no one has ever figured the actual amount but it is estimated that over 40,000 were killed in the hamberg firestorm. -
d-day
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day)more than 160,000 allied troops landed among a 50- mile stretch of heavily-fortafied french coastline. the cost in lives on d-day was high. of the 100,000 soldiers more than 9,000 were killed and or wounded. -
battle of the bulge
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-or-the-bulge)
december of 1944, hitlertries to split the allied armies. lieutenant general george s. patton's successful manuevering of the third army to bastogne proved vital to the allied defenses. -
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liberation of concentration camps
[source](www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?moduleId=10005131)
nazis had forced many of the aushwitz prisoners to march westward. in the old camps some things found include but ar not limited to: thousands of men suits, over 8000,000 womens outfits, and over 14,000 pounds of human hair. -
battle of iwo jima
[source](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima)
iwo jima defended roughly 23,000 japanese army and navy troops. (sixty eight hundred bombs, and two thousand shells) except for 1,083 prisoners the entire garrison was wiped out -
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dropping of the atomic bombs
[source](www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropping-on-hiroshima)
dropped on hiroshima. since 1940 teh u.s. has been working on creating an atomic weapon. american bomber enola gay dropped a five ton bomb on hiroshima. a blast equivalent to 15,000 tons of tnt immdeiatly killed 80,000 people.
