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German Blitzkrieg
German forces swept through Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and France with astonishing speed and force. a quick way to win battles and it reduced casualties. The effects were, Germany was able to sweep through opposing countries. -
Fall of Paris
Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris and the Germans occupied the city. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed a naval base in the United States called Pearl Harbor. they bombed the naval base so the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. this event cause The United States to join the war. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the Final Solution of the Jewish question. It caused the creation of gas vans. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The result was a Soviet victory, and the destruction of the German 6th Army -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific in World War II that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The outcome was an American victory. -
Allied invasion of Italy
Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The invasion was a success. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. The point of D-Day was to get USA forces into Europe. It caused the western front campaign. -
Battle of the Bulge
the last major German offensive of the war. it was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. It affected the germans because they lost so many experienced troops and equipment that there was no way their army could launch another attack on Allied forces. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. they did it because the island would help the Us from a strategic standpoint. The united states won and took over the island. -
VE Day
VE Day is when Nazi Germany unconditionaly surrendered its armed forces on May 8, 1945. Germany surrendered to avoid falling in the hands of the Soviet Union. It was a great victory for the United States. -
Dropping of The Atomic Bombs
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on two of Japan's major cities. They bombed those cities because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor -
VJ Day
The day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II. This day officially ended the war. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Shortly before Germany's surrender, Soviet forces liberated the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps. US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. -
Battle of Okinawa
a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
