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Kristallnacht
The Night of the Broken Glass, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
In the public part of the pact, Germany and the Soviet Union promised not to attack each other. Secretly, however, they agreed that they would divide poland between them. They also agreed that the USSR could take over Finland and the Baltic countries. -
Germany's invasion of poland
Hitler's suprise attack took place at dawn on september 1, 1939. German war planes invaded Polish airspace, raining bombs and terror on the poles. At the same time, German tanks and troop trucks rumbled across the Polish border -
Dunkirk
The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France -
The fall of France
Benito Mussolini and Hitler join forces to declared war on Great Britan and France, and by June 14, paris was controlled by the nazis, on June 22, 1940 France surrendered. -
The Battle of Britain
Continued until May 10, 1941. Stunned by the British resistance, Hitler decided to call off his attacks. Instead, he focused his attention on Eastern Europe and the mediterranean. -
The Atlantic Charter
A pivotal policy statement issued on 14 August 1941, that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world because it did. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan's greatest naval strategist, sdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, also argued that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii was "a dagger pointed at our throat" and must be destroyed. -
Battle of Coral Sea
the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers. -
Battle of Midway
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army -
V-E Day
marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Hiroshima
The city of Honshu, Japan was destroyed in World War II when an American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare -
Nagasaki
The first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade in the 1500s, Nagasaki was devastated by the second atomic bomb used in World War II -
V-J Day
The day Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or surrendered -
Nuremberg Trials
were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces
