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Japan invades China
was when japan invade Manchuria in china and starts a massacre of the Chinese people because of fear that they will retallate. and the Kwantung Army blow up the damn to try to stop the Japan. but it only stop them for like an hour. -
The Holocaust
germany murder over 6 million European Jews as well as other groups like gays and The Mentally disabled and locked thwm in conintration camps. -
Munich conference
the Munich conference was a treaty which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. -
Non-Aggression Pact
Non-Aggression Pact was a pact with Germany and the Soviet stating that the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland -
Blitzkrieg
A German term which means lightning war this was a millitary tactic used against poland it was create disorganization enemy forces by attacking by ground and useing tanks. -
Battle of Britain
the Battle of Britain was when germany lunched a wide scale attack on london bombing it for days. germany’s luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force this resulted in germany retreat from london -
Lend Lease Act
The lend lease act said that the US will stay out of war but we will sell weopeans to them to you but have to come and get them. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was when Germany send over 150 divison and over 3000 tanks into Russia.The invasion covered a distance of two thousand miles -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was when Japan attacked the US and it got the US involed in WW2.Thousands of lives were lost on that day alone. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was when Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Casablanca on a ship to strategy and study the next phase of the war. -
Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March was when the US surrender Bataan penisula to the japaneses and the troops station there was forced to march 70 miles to interment camps. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway was six months after Pearl Harbor and it was a major victory in the pacfic against japan navy for the US -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of stalingrad was when the soviet defended of the city of Stalingrad this stoped germany from entering russia.this battle was the greastest battle of its.time.This battle also marked the turning point in the war for the allied. -
D-Day
was when the Allied landed in Normandy and this caused the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. it lasted 2 months. -
Battle of the bulge
Aldolf Hitler was trying to split the allied forces by lunching a surprise attack at. Blitzkrieg he was trying to get through the Ardennes to Antwerp.the allied won this battle due to Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s in sending the german army to Bastogne. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima was when the us invaded the island of Iwo Jima and fought the Japaneses on there home front. Japan had a line of trenches and dugouts waiting for the US troops.then when the US attacked it was an easy win on the beach ut when they got inland many died. -
V-E day
V-E day was the day when Germay surrender in Europe and the US and Great Britain rejoce over the win over germany.It ended the war on the western front. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki was when the US droped worlds first atomic bomb over the Japanese citys and it killed milllion and caused the japanese to surrender. -
V-J day
V-J day was the day japan surrender this happen several months after the surrender of Germany and this ended WW2 and the us was reconize as a super power with russia. -
Warsaw Pact
The treaty called on the member of the european contrys to come to the agreement defense of any member attacked by anything will be protected by Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union.