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German Blitzkrieg on Poland
The Germans invaded Poland with the aid of the Soviet Union. They took Poland in a week and a half. They wanted to extend their borders and unite all German speaking people. France Declared war on Germany because of the invasion. -
Invasion of France
The Germans Invaded France through the mountains and forest and caught them by surprise. They attacked France to take over the western front of Europe. The invasion led to leader of France to run to England. -
The London Blitz
The German air offensive was concentrated, aimed at the direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres which began with heavy raids on London. They wanted to have fool control of the western front. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in the capital. -
Lend Lease Act
It was proposed late 1940 and it finally passed in march 11,1941. It allowed the US to transfer arms and other defense materials to foreign nations. The US passed the law to help England while looking like they are on nobody's side. The Lend Lease act got us more involved in the war. -
Germany battles Russia
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The battle was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was a code name for the invasion of Russia. The invasion was to extend the German borders eastern to repopulate western Russia with Germans. They now had to fight to fronts because of the defeat. -
Japan Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was devastating more then 2,000 died from the attack. Japan attacked because they wanted more control of the Pacific and because the US stopped selling oil to them. After the attack the US declared war. -
The United States Declares War
The US declares war on Japan and Germany right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The affect is that now the US was going to be fighting and involved in the war now. -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese. 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an 65 mile march to prison camps. It gave Japan the edge in the war. -
Battle of the Midway
It was one of the most decisive victories for the US against the Japanese. During the four day sea and air battle they outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own. It was an important turing point in the War for the US. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
It was the act of Jewish resistance that arose in the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II. The uprising inspired other revolts in concentration camps and ghettos throughout Nazi Empire. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June to August 1944, it resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control. The allied had to win this battle to seize control of the war. -
Battle of the Buldge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German attack of World War II. The Germans launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. They lost the battle which kind of ended the Nazi's. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. It ended the concentration camps and the Nazi party. -
Atomic Bombs
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Then a second was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombs killed over 120,000 estimated people. It forced the Japanese to surrender. -
battle of Iwo Jima
It was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima. It was a big battle that helped turn the war into the US favor. -
