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Hitler's Tactic
Hitler had to use Quantity against Quality to try to win the war. Sadly his tactics were effective but did not have the outcome that he wanted. -
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World War Two
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WWII pt 1
HItler invades Poland and drags Britain and France into the war as they signed a pact with Poalnd to protect them after WWI after this Italy and Japan made allegancies with Nazi Germany and America and Russia allied with Britain. In 1941 Hitler marched on France and the French surrendered in 9 days. Then in 1942 Hitler marched on Stalins Russia. This was the turning point in the war. Hitler had looked too powerful and still nearly deafeated Russia but Stalin did not give in and beat the Nazis -
The siege of Singapore begins.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht in 42 days had accomplished something that the Kaiser Wilhelm II had not managed to do in 4 years. -
Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands.
Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands. As 29 German devisions advanced through the Nederlands and Belgium in the north, 45 other devisions including about 2400 tanks in 7 devisions burst through the right flank and drove towards the English channel. -
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Allies Unprepared
The French and then English were not prepared to face Hitlers army, called The Wehrmacht. -
Fall of Paris
Paris fell to the Germans. The French decided not to fight in the capital and withdrew to the South of France. The Germans met no resistance as they entered the capital as the town was declared an open town on the day before. -
Hitler Dictates Terms
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Operation Battleaxe
The British were stopped by well-prepared defences when attempting to liberate Tobruk. -
Operation Barbarossa
4,000,000 axis troops, aided with 600,000 vehicles and 750,000 horses invaded the USSR. The Germans took Ukraine, one of the most economically important areas of the Soviet Union. The failure of the operation led to other failed attacks on Russia. This also opened up the Eastern front. 3,000,000 Russian prisoners of war were captured in 1941. -
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Siege of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad was an operation in which the German Army Group North were trying to take Leningrad, killing over 1,000,000 city residents in the process. The plan was to starve the city of resources such as food, coal and oil. This along with bombing of the city by the Germans, led to many people dying. In 1942 alone, over 600,000 Russians died. Conditions got a bit better by the end of the siege as people started getting food and electricity cables were run under Lake Ladoga. -
Operation Crusader
This caught General Erwin Rommel's forces by suprise (commander of the German Afrika Korps)
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China declares war on Japan
14 Days before Christmas China declares war on Japan. -
British surrender at Hong Kong
On Christmas Day the Brits surrender in Hong Kong. What a Xmas Dy!!! -
Japanese take North Borneo
Borneo is caught unawares as japan take them with almighty force. -
British surrender at Singapore
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Battle of Midway
At 10.26am on 4 June 1942 the course of World War Two in the Pacific changed utterly. At that moment 37 Douglas Dauntless bombers from the USS Enterprise peeled off into a dive attack on two Japanese aircraft carriers. Within minutes both ships were ablaze, their death throes punctuated by the explosion of fuel lines, badly stowed ordnance and aircraft petrol tanks. Within six hours the other two carriers in their fleet had also been destroyed. The force that had dominated the Pacific for six -
The First Battle of El Alamein
From 1-27 of July, it was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign. It was fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Germany and Italy, was a stalemate. -
Operation Blue
Operation Blue was the codename of the attack ordered by Hitler on the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus region. . If the oil fields were taken, the USSR would not be able to stand, and would consequently fall. On the 22nd of July, 1942, the attacks started. It started off very well, as with Barbarossa, and Hitler believed that too many troops were being used. He took all of his troops out of there, and focused his attacks on Stalingrad. -
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The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Java (Invasion of Java, Operation J) was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II. It occurred on the island of Java from 28 February-12 March 1942. It involved forces from the Empire of Japan, which invaded on 28 February 1942, and Allied personnel. Allied commanders signed a formal surrender at Japanese headquarters at Bandung on 12 March. -
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WWII pt2
In 1943 the allies capture Sicily and the majority of Italy surrendered. However the north, led by Mussolini still fought against the allies until 1945 when he was captured shot and hung at a petrol station in Milan for war crimes. Also in 1945 America dropped two A-bombs on JApan causing them to surrender. This left Germany. The allies marched on Berlin freed the prisoners in the concentration camps. Hitler knew all was lost and shot himself. In Germany they see Hitler as a national shame. -
Operation Nordlicht (1942)
Operation Nordlicht was a plan launched Germany to capture the city of Leningrad after a year long battle for Leningrad between the Russians and Germans on the Eastern front. The operation was supposed to start on 23rd August 1942 however the Russians launched The Sinyavino Offensive on 19th August 1942 in an attempt to stop Germany from taking over the city which delayed the Germans. The plan by the Russians failed but it delayed and cancelled the German mission to invade Leningrad. -
The Second Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942 near the Egyptian coastal city of El Alamein, and the Allies' victory marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. -
Operation Torch
(Initially called Operation Gymnast). The British–American invasion of French North Africa.
American commanders favored Operation Sledgehammer, landing in Occupied Europe as soon as possible, the British commanders believed that such a course would end in disaster. An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea and prepare for an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943. -
D-day
D-day was an amphibious landing. The British, American and Canadian troops tricked the Germans into thinkng that the main landings would be on the Strait of Dover. The main landings though were in Normandy and by the time Hitler found out it was too late for him to send his troops to Normandy. -
America hits Hiroshima with A-bomb
The effects of the bomb caused between 90,000 and 170,000 deaths in Hiroshima.This was mainly due to the radiation from the bomb. -
America hits Nagasaki
The Americans hit Japan with an atom bomb for the second timein 3 days. -
Japan surrenders to America
Japan surrendered toAmerica following the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This day is commonly known as VJ day (victory in Japan.) This marked the end of world war two after 6 years of conflict and was met with huge celebrations around the world.
