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The Soviet Union & Germany
After the Soviet Union and Germany became allies, Germany was the spark of the war by invading Poland. The cause of the invasions was that dictators wanted to expand their nations. Less than a month, Germany and the Soviet Union defeated Poland. This led to Hitler creating a stronger army for World War ll. -
The Rise of Germany
Battle of France, started by Nazi Germany's invasion of the Ardennes and the Low countries. Also, politics in France at the time were extremely contentious and France's leaders were consumed by this reek. Parts of France were placed under German military occupation and was determined a Germany victory -
Germany Bombs London
Almost 1,000 German aircraft - over 300 bombers escorted by 600 fighters flew over London. It was the largest collection of aircraft ever seen. The bombing continued for the next 76 nights consecutively, with daytime raids as well. Germany sank some 58,000 long tons of shipping destroyed and 450,000 long tons damaged. -
Lend Lease Act
U.S. would lend arms or other supplies to our allies. In return for we were supplied military bases in Britain. Lend-Lease brought the United States one step closer to entry into the war. -
Turning Point of the War
Hitler had long vowed to regain the lands Germany had lost in 1919. Hitler believed that German forces could use Blitzkrieg tactics with the same level of success, as they had against Poland, France and the low countries. The missions failure was the turning point of World War ll in the overall defeat of the Nazis. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese expanding over Asia and was trying to establish an Asian Empire - only the U.S. stood in its way. FDR froze Japanese financial assets & stopped exporting oil to Japan. Therefore the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. In 2 hours, 2,403 died and 21 ships were sunk or damaged. The U.S. declares war on Japan. -
The U.S. Going to War
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declares war on the United States. The U.S. declares war on Japan and Germany. -
Bataan Death March
After the U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of the Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater. This battle was called "the turning point of the Pacific" because it was the Allies' first major naval victory against the Japanese. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. -
D-Day
American troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France. British Expeditionary Force and the French Army, trapped along the northern coast of France. More than 160,000 Allied troops invaded Western Europe, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved to be a turning point in World War II. -
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. Also left behind were victims' belongings: 348,820 men's suits, 836,255 women's coats, and tens of thousands of pairs of shoes. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards the end of World War II, in the European theatre. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army -
Ending World War ll
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender.
