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German Blitzkrieg
Hitler breaks agreement and invades Czech then turns sites on Poland. Nonaggression pact is when Hitler & Stalin agree to not attack on another and to divide Poland. -
Germany invaded France
Hitler invades thru Belgium in May and by June controls France.the defeat of this powerful army in a mere six weeks in 1940 stand as one of the most remarkable military campaigns in history. -
Liberation of Western Eurpoe
Western Europe by invading the low countries,which had taken neutral position in the war, as well as France, on June 22,1940, France signed an armistice with Germany, which provided for the German Occupation of Northern half of the country. -
Battle of Britian
Hitler's plan to soften Britain for invasion by continuously bombing. Unsuccessful & called of after 11 months of bombing -
Lend Lease between the United States and Britain
U.S. would lend arms or other supplies to our allies. Compare this to lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire. Hitler tried to prevent lend-lease aid by sending Germans U-boats to attack ships. -
The war in Eastern Europe
The Holocaust took place in the broader context of WWII. Still reeling from Germany's defeat in WWI, Hitler's government envisioned a vast, new empire of "Living Space" in Eastern Europe. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched his armies eastward in massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions,and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North cape to Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan did not want peace , it wanted an empire. December 7,1941 Japan attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor. In 2 hours, 2,403 died and 21 ships were sunk or damaged. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese expanding over Asia , trying to establish an Asian Empire- only the U.S. stood in its way. -
The United States declares war on Germany and Japan
U.S. declares war on Japan on December 8, 1941. December 11, Germany & Italy declares war on the United States. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9,1942, U.S. surrender of Bataan Peninsula on main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WWII. The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
During WWII residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw,Poland,staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during WWII stemmed form the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Japan to surrender and ending WWII
The United States Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Tens of thousands of people died in the initial explosion, and many more died later from radiation exposure. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise Blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn the Adennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle's name.
