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Important leaders and military commanders
Some leaders and military commanders who where a part of World War II include: Adolf Hitler from germany, Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union, George S. Patton from the USA, and Hideki Tojo from Japan. -
Battle of France
This battle resulted in the creation of Vichy France which was a puppet-state which Nazi Germany created in addition to taking control of half of france. -
New military technology and its effects on the war
German air forces used planes/ bombs to destroy British air and naval bases, harbors, communication centers and war industries. However with the damage done to the British, the British air defenses still fought back with the support of the radar system that gave them early warning of germans attacks so that may be prepared to face them. But in this case the Germans had more powerful military technology (airplanes and using them to drop bombs) than the british so the Germans won. -
The Holocaust
The Einsatzgruppen were given a job to put “The final solution” into action by acting as mobile killing units. They rounded up all Polish Jews and put them into ghettos and made them starve by allowing minimal amounts of food and then they would execute the jews, and bury them in mass graves. -
Battle of Pearl Harbor
This steamed from the attack at Pearl Harbor which was a military strike from Japanese forces with the intent of preventing the US from being able to interfere with Japan’s attempt to conqeur southeast asia. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Prime minister, Hideki Tojo, led the Japan aircraft that attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. With this surprise attack they damaged or sunk 18 ships, killed or wounded more than 3500 Americans. They attacked Pearl Harbor in hopes of destroying the US fleet in the pacific and that the Roosevelt administration accept Japanese domination of the Pacific; this resulted in the U.S. joining with European nations and Nationalist China in a combined effort to defeat Japan. -
The Camps
Jews (European Jews) from countries occupied by Germans were rounded up, packed into freight trains, and shipped to Poland to be sent to the six extermination centers built there. While at these centers they were forced to a labor camp where they would starve or work to death, be sent to the gas chambers, or even to be subjected to cruel and painful “medical” experiments. -
Battle of Midway
A battle fought between the Japanese Navy and U.S. Navy in which the U.S. won. This battle was fought in the Pacific for about three days. -
Battle of Kursk
This was a bloody tank battle with thousands and thousands of deaths. The battle was fought between Germany and the Soviets in which the Soviets won. -
Death Marches
The allies were driving the Germans army back which lead them to make ten of thousands jews held in eastern territories to march towards the heart of Germany so that they couldn't bare witness to the Allies since the world had been alerted of the horrors of the camps, the nazis sought out to destroy the evidence -
The Normandy Landings
known as the D-day, is the First day of The Normandy landings where 156,000 Americans, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. It was one of the most largest amphibious invasion military assaults in history. -
Liberation
The allies had swept victory in Europe and the camps were liberated across the once Nazi territories meaning that the surving jews in the six centers were free. When the camps were invaded and liberated general Eisenhower ordered that documentation of evidence of what occurred in the camps were contained so that the nazi party will be trialed, also Hitler and other senior nazis killed themselves -
Yalta Conferance
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The “Big Three” Allied leaders discussed the post-war fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe, the terms of Soviet entry into the ongoing war in the Pacific against Japan and the formation and operation of the new United Nations -
VE Day
The Allies forces United States, UK, France, and the Soviet Union had forced the unconditional surrender if Nazi Germany. Around the world celebration broke out after news hits about Nazi Germany surender and “Victory in Europe (V-E) Day.” One of the first hurdles on the path to ending World war II. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Allies leaders agreed to meet during the summer at Potsdam to continue the discussions that began at Yalta. Although they would continue a joint war in Pacific, the lack of a common enemy in Europe led to difficulties reaching consensus concerning postwar reconstruction on the European continent. -
VJ Day
VJ day, otherwise known as victory over Japan day, is the day in 1945 on which Japan decided to surrender in World War II. They surrendered to Europe’s Allies after two atomic bombs were dropped into Japan’s cities. This brought the war to an end. -
Battle of Berlin
This battle was fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in which the Societ Union won. The battle is also known as the fall of berlin. Over 70,000 soviets died during this battle. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the japanese city if Hiroshima. With a power equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT. It hit 4 square miles, killing 80,000 people. The next day more died from wounds and radiation poisoning. Just 3 days later another bomb was dropped in the city of Nagaski, killing nearly 40.000 more people. Then just a few days later japan announced its surrender.
