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Germany Invades Poland
-Germany invades the country of Poland
-Germany wants its land back
-Starts world war 2 -
German Blitzkrige
-Fast way to attack
-To get land fast and less casualties
-Made other countres fear them -
Pearl harbor
-Japan attacks the U.S
-The U.S cuts oil off from Japan
-Brought the U.S into the war -
Battle of midway
-Japan wanted the midway atoll
-The U.S needed to defend it
-Japan suffered heavy casualties -
Battle of Stalingrad
-Germany invades Russia
-Germany wanted to invade Moscow
-It was a turning point in the war -
Guadalcanal
-U.S wanted its air strip
-U.S needed the base for operations
-U.S got its combat air transport -
Battle of Stalingrad
-Germany invades Russia
-Germany wanted to invade Moscow and its oil fields
-It was a turning point in the war -
D-Day
-Allies invade the beach of normandy France
-Push the germans back and end the war
-Lost a lot of troops -
Battle of the Bulge
-German counter attack on the allies on the eastern front
-Try to stop allied advance
-Major allied casulties -
Iwo Jima
-U.S invades the island for the landing strip
-Needs air field for B-29's
-Became for emergancy landings -
Battle of Okinawa
-U.S went islands hopping and clearing them out of Japanese troops
-Use the island for the invasion of Japan
-lost a lot of troops -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
-U.S dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
-The war wasn't ending soon enough
-Radiation damage for years to come -
VE-Day
-The war ended in Europe
-The Germans couldn't fight anymore
-It would later cause Germany to be split in half -
VJ-Day
-Japan surrendered to the U.S
-Japan couldn't fight the U.S anymore
-Japan wouldn't fight another war