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NAZIS TAKE THE SUDETENLAND
The Czechoslovakian government resisted but its allies Brittan and France determined to avoid war at all cost Brittan and France to negotiate with Hitler wanted to march into Czechoslovakia but his generals warned him that with its strong army and good mountain defences Czechoslovakia would be a difficult country to overcomeit happened because Britan and france ngoitated hitler the outcome was hitler tried to take over because he wanted more dictatiorship -
German Blitzkrieg
In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war) germany wanted to defeat their opponiets -
ribbentrop/molotov pact
Hitler was planning against a possibility of a 2 front war since he had to fight a 2 front war he split the Germanys forces but that couldn’t do enough because Germany lost part of ww1 after he made a pact with the soviets germany lost part of ww1 so they wanted to get back the outcome was made a deal with the soviets to create a nazi soviet -
Germanys invationof Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia the outcome was they were mad because poland took provences of prussia -
Battle of Britain
the German luftwaffe(air force) attempted to destroy the Royal Air Force so that they could control the English channel. Had they succeeded they would then have been able to effect a seaborne invasion of Britain. After several months of heavy aeriel fighting the Germans failed, and gave up their attempt to invade. Britain 1 Germany 0!! the outcome was It started on 10 July 1940 with so-called "Channel Battles", in which the Luftwaffe initiated dogfights with the RAF over the channel and occasion -
Nazi Invasion of Spvoet union
First, Operation Barbarossa was envisioned to only take a couple of months to defeat the Soviet Union. Hitler pointed to the disastrous Winter War between Soviets and Finland as proof. He did not want to believe that the Soviets had learned from their mistakes.The end of Hitler's 1000 year Reich. Without the loss of over 20 to 40 million Soviets, the Allies could not have defeated the Nazi war machine. Now this will draw some controversy so let us head it breifly off. -
PEARL HARBOR
When Pearl Harbor was bombed the United States immediately declared war against Japan. The resources (soldiers, weapons, transporation, food, fuel and just about anything else you can think of) to operate the military were spread a little thin because of the necessity to fight on TWO fronts. Had we not been required to fight in the Pacific AND Europe, either war would have gone much faster. The Japanese leadership wanted to fight a weakened foe, that's why they tried to conquer the Pacific while -
WANNSEE CONFERENCE
On 20 January 1942 a number of high-ranking men from the Nazi state- and security apparatuses gathered together, under the direction of the Chief of Security Police, Reinhard Heydrich, in order to discuss ‘the Final Solution to the Jewish Question’. As a result of this meeting, Heydrich received the full backing from the participants to carry out the systematic extermination of the European Jews. The decision itself, to exterminate the Jews, was presumably taken before the conference was held. -
Allied Invasion Of Africa
The decision to take the initiative in the West with an Allied invasion of North Africa was made by Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was one of the few strategic decisions of the war in which the President overrode the counsel of his military advisers.The reasons for it were as much political as military. At first Torch, as the operation was called, had no specific military objective other than to effect a lodgment in French North Africa and to open -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle for Stalingrad was fought during the winter of 1942 to 1943. In September 1942, the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, advanced on the city of Stalingrad. His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. The Germans final target was to have been Baku.Stalingrad was also an important target as it was Russia’s centre of communications in the south as wel -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz Week."Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London -
D-Day INVASION
D-Day was the beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler most of all. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. Yet again the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them.Reinforcements for the infantry of D-Day had come in. On June 26th, 1944 the Allies captured the French port of Cherbourg. After that day, the Germans began to retreat. On August 25th, 1944 came the day that the French had been waiting for, Paris had been liberated. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"), and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp. There was abundant evidence of mass murder in Auschwitz. The retreating Germans had destroyed most of the warehouses in the camp, but in the remaining ones the Soviets found -
LIBERATION OF NAZI CAmps 2
personal belongings of the victims. They discovered, for example, hundreds of thousands of men's suits, more than 800,000 women's outfits, and more than 14,000 pounds of human hair. -
VE DAY
Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was on May 8th 1945. VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe. On Monday May 7th at 02.41. German General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document that formally ended war in Europe. Winston Churchill was informed of this event at 07.00. While no public announcements had been made, large crowds gathered outside of Buckingham Palace and shouted: “We want the King”. The Home Office issued a circular (before any official announcement) inst -
Battle of the bulge
The Americans incurred about 80,000 casualties—19,000 killed and 15,000 captured; British casualties totaled 1,400. German losses totaled approximately 100,000. Each side lost 700 tanks. The counteroffensive delayed a final Allied offensive against Germany for six weeks, but in expending his last reserves, Hitler had crippled the defense of Germany on both eastern and western fronts.
