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outbreak of the war
invasion of Poland. In September Adolf Hitler invaded Poland a couple days later Britain and France declared war on Germany which caused world war-ii. In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which made France and Britain worry. Hitler had been planning to attack Poland which had made a deal with France and Britain that if they were attacked they will rescue them. -
World War II in the West
On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Norway and took over Denmark and the war began.On May 10, German attacks Belgium and the Netherlands which became known as “blitzkrieg" or the lightning war. The Germans attacked french 3 days later and the south French resisted. Italy declared war on France and Great Britain sense they were allies with Germany. German planes bombed Britain extensively throughout the summer of 1940. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria joined the axis in early 1941 and Germany overran Yugoslavia and Greece.Hitler wanted to attack the soviet nation from the start.The other half of Hitler’s strategy was the extermination of the Jews from throughout German occupied Europe. June 22,1941 was when Hitler wanted to attack the soviet union. He named his plan Operation Barbarossa.Even tho the soviet union troops outnumbered Germany,Germany had the better technology. -
World War II in the Pacific
On December 7, 1941, 360 Japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, taking the Americans completely by surprise and claiming the lives of more than 2,300 troops. The damage that the attack cause made the Congress declared war on Japan with only one dissenting vote on December 8/1941.the U.S. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway in June 1942. the Allies also had success against Japanese forces in a series of battles from August 1942 to February 1943. -
allies victories
In North Africa, British and American forces had defeated the Italians and Germans by 1943.An Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy followed, and Mussolini’s government fell in July 1943, though Allied fighting against the Germans in Italy would continue until 1945.On World War II’s Eastern Front, a Soviet counteroffensive launched in November 1942 ended the bloody Battle of Stalingrad. The approach of winter, along with dwindling food and medical supplies, spelled the end for Germany 1/13/1943. -
The war continues
The soviet counteroffensive ended the bloody Battle of Stalingrad. Which was one of the strongest combat battles.The approach of winter, along with dwindling food and medical supplies, spelled the end for German troops there, and the last of them surrendered on January 31, 1943. -
The war continues 2
on June 6 1944 the allied made a big invasion on Europe which was called D Day 156,000 soldiers joined in British, Canadian and American soldiers on the beaches of Normandy, France. Hitler used the rest of his army's power in the western side of Europe which meant Germany's lost on the east. The soviet troops got into Poland.Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler was trying to do a surprise attack on the allied forces by blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. American units were caught of guard and fought desperate battles to stop Germans attacks at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes to try and take vital bridgheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name. -
the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west
Three german armies more than a quartwer million troops launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. America Fought desperatley to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and, later, Bastogne, which was defended by the 101st Airborne Division. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
The atomic bomb and end of war
The USA are in a battle with japan at the pacific and the USA decided to drop an atomic bomb two of them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was a revenge for the attack on harbor and to make them and force them to accept defeat and surrender. Japan signed the papers of peace with the USA and stooped fighting and after that the war was Pretty much over.
