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Germany's invasion of Poland
The Germans pushed into Poland. The polish was out gunned and they couldn't hold off the Germans. So the Poland lost to the Germans. Polands government was destroyed after the battle -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a concentration camps for the Jews. Auschwitz one of the largest camp the nazis building and it caused the most deaths then any other camp. Hitler reason for building these camp to get rid not only the Jews but anyone that he thinks is not good enough for the nazi germany -
German blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg was military tactic it used mobile forces. The Germans used this tactic against Poland and it was effective. The German army crushed the combined forces from four nations. -
holocaust
In the holocaust the Jews was transported to the ghettoes to live there and they had to wear a yellow stars so they known who the Jews were. Hitler did not like the Jews so he wanted to get rid of the all of the Jews. There was 250,000-375,000 Jews killed by the end of world war 2. -
Wannsee conference
The Wannsee conference was a plan to figure out how to kill as many Jews as possible and this plan was made up by the Germans. Hitler wanted to kill as many Jews and other people he didn't like before someone destroys the camps. They found out gas was the most effective way to kill the Jews they killed 1000 people in a day. -
USSR in world war 2
Soviet Union and Germany they didn't like each other. The Germans invaded the USSR and the Germans won the battle. Now the Soviets are under the Germans control. -
D-day
The USA was getting prepared for the invasion on normandy. Utah beach there was 2,000 yard to the beach there was 50,000 Americans and only 5,000 casualties. 30% didn't even make it to the beach -
Battle of the bulge
On December 16,1944 there were 200,000 German troops and 1,000 hitler last bid to reverse ebb in his fortunes. They wanted to split allied troops from the English Channel. German sliders what spoke English posed as Americans and captured major bridge cut many communication lines -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
On August 6,1945 the American bomber dropped the first deployed atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The bomb little boy weighed over 9,000 pounds and held over 15,000 tons of TNT. -
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in WWII Veterans
During ww2 there were millions of people who were brutally killed. At the time the term post traumatic stress disorder did not exist. Turns out many of the veterans of world was 2 shows many symptoms of this disorder
