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nazis take the sudetenland
• The German newsreels showed ‘evidence’ of Czech ‘atrocities’ against the Sudeten Germans.
• Hitler threatened to support the Sudeten Germans with military force.
• Hitler marched unopposed into the Sudetenland. He said that it was the start of a 1000-year German Reich (empire)
• The leaders of Nazis Germany, great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland
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ribbentrop/molotov pact
• German airborne elements begin bombardment of Polish defensive targets. At 6:00 AM, 50 German divisions making up Army Groups in North and South flood into Poland.
• a British passenger liner originating from Glasgow and traveling to Montreal, is targeted and sunk by German U-boat U-30 resulting the loss of 112 people.
• Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact.
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german blitzkrieg 1939-1940
• Marshall Petain, sued for peace with Adolf Hitler’s third reach
• No one in non-aggression pact signed in 1934
• Effective military opposition to the German invasion ended.
• 65,000 polish troops were killed in the invasion. Hundreds and thousands were captured or wounded. ‘’Phony war’’
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germany's invasion of 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.
• Beginning of World War II as the United Kingdom declares war on Germany in response to the invasion. The Soviet Union invades from the east. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them and treat Polish citizens with extreme brutality.
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battle of britian
• Was a intense air battle between Germans and British
• Hitler used the war it his own advantage in the 2 month bombing campaign
• Moral in great Britain was extremely poor and increased
• The German against the sector slowly succeeded
• Hitler gave orders for the preparation of a seaborne invasion of Britain
• German leaders felt it was essential to destroy the British air force to stop it sinking the ships that would carry German soldiers
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nazi invasion of the soviet union
• The permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. Adolf Hitler had always regarded the German-Soviet nonaggression pact, signed on August 23, 1939, as a temporary tactical maneuver
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pearl harbor
• The causes of the attack on Pearl Harbor stemmed from intensifying Japanese-American rivalry in the Pacific. Japan’s imperial ambitions had been evident from as early as 1931, when she invaded Manchuria September 1940
• When Japan occupied French Indochina in July 1941, Roosevelt continued to avoid direct confrontation. But Japan’s imperial ambitions in the Pacific had placed her
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wannsee conference
• The Wannsee Conference was the discussion by a group of Nazi officials about the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" It took place on January 20, 1942 in the Wannsee Villa overlooking the Wannsee lake in southwestern Berlin and would lead to the Holocaust.
• The meeting is noted as the first discussion of the final solution and also because the records and minutes of the meeting were found intact by the Allies at the end of WW II.
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Allied invasion Of Africa
• The allies planned out the invasion of North Africa through operation torch and took place by air power.
• The allied and French would greet as liberators, pockets of Vichy French soldiers battled out as hard core enemies.
• In Germany , Hitler was enraged by the success of the allied invasion of the Vichy French and was very controlled the Vichy loyal
• http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/operation-torch-the-allied-invasion-of-north-africa.asp -
battle of stalingrab
• One of the largest and deadliest battles and the Germans lost the battle and so many of their soldiers were killed and never quiet recovered from the war.
• The battle began with the German air force, the bomb the Volga river and the city of Stalingrad. The Germans came in and found a large portion of the city.
• Soon the Germans ran out of food and the majority of the Germans surrendered to the Russians, Hitler was hoping to promote Paulus would boost his moral and cause him not to surrender -
Battle of Stalingrad- part2
• General Zhukov was one of the most decorated generals in the Soviet Union.
• http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_stalingrad.php -
Operation Gomorrah
• They were conducted by the royal Air force, at the time it was the heaviest assault of the aerial warfare.
• The bombing first started By the RAF and lasted an hours
• British aircraft drop 2,300 incendiary bombs
• British attacks on Hamburg until November of that year, the bombers increased while the Germans came more adept.
• http://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Operation_Gomorrah -
D-day
• Germany had invaded France and tried to take over all of Europe and Britain
• The first wave of the attack began with the paratroopers. There were men who jumped out of planes using parachutes. They jumped at night in the dark and landed behind the enemy lines. Their job was to destroy key targets and capture bridges in order for the main invasion force to land on the beach. Thousands of dummies were also dropped in
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Liberation Of concentration camps
• The prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease
• The Germans attempted to hide the evidence of murder by the demolishing
• The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward and was known as the death marches and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp.
• the Soviets found personal belongings of the victims. They discovered hundreds and thousands
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battle of the bulge
the Americans so they wouldn't know what was going on.
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Battle of the bulge-part 1
• After the Allies had freed France and defeated Germany at Normandy, many thought that World War II in Europe was coming to an end. However, Adolf Hitler of Germany had different ideas.
• The Americans were not ready for the attack. The Germans broke through the line and killed thousands of American troops. They tried to advance quickly.
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VE-Day part 2
at Reims on May 7 and ratified at Berlin on May 8.
• http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/world-war-ii-allied-victory-europe.html -
VE-Day- part 1
• The Western Allies whose chief commanders in the field were Omar Bradley and Montgomery crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran W Germany. German collapse came after the meeting of the Western and Russian armies at Torgau in Saxony, and after Hitler's death amid the ruins of Berlin, which was falling to the Russians under marshals Zhukov and Konev. The unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at Reims on May 7 and ratified at
