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Kristallnacht
Also known as "Night of broken glass". This was when anti-jews went around and smashed windows of jews homes, and stores. -
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Wannsee Conference
The conference held the top 15 nazi people. And they talked about killing the jews, thus the holocaust -
Casablanca conference
Roosevelt also announced that the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally to the Allies, announced without prior consultation with his British counterpart. "Peace can come to the world only by the total elimination of German and Japanese war power -
Battle of Stalingrad
Tis battle is marked as a turning point in the war. Stalingard was to important to lose, and in the end, the germans made a full retreat. -
Italy declares war on Germany
On this day, the goverment of Itlay declares war on its former partner, Germany. -
Anzio Invasion
Fifth Army swarmed ashore on a fifteen-mile stretch of Italian beach near the prewar resort towns of Anzio and Nettuno. Germans were unprepared to react offensively. Within a week, however, as Allied troops consolidated their positions and prepared to break out of the beachhead, the Germans gathered troops to eliminate what Adolf Hitler called the "Anzio abscess." The next four months would see some of the most savage fighting of World War II. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord required the type of logistical issues that no army had ever had to cope with before and the plan was for the Allies to have landed a vast amount of both men and equipment by the end of D-Day itself. Overlord itself required the involvement of many men – both in Britain and in France via the Resistance. Security for the plan had to be total. The fact that the Germans were taken by surprise at Normandy indicates that the Allies were successful in this. -
Liberation of Paris
It was only a matter of time when we won D-day. Taking Paris was a big morale boost, and Paris's landscape and stucture made it easy for the U.S to win. -
Battle of the Bulge
With the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war -
Yalta Conference
The big three meet at this anciet place near the black sea. The meeting was held to deal with post war Europe. -
V-E Day
Victory in Eurpoe was declared and everyone was having a party up and down the streets. Even cakes and other sweets were being passed aroud on this day -
Nuremburg Trials
24 Nazi leaders were put on trail for war crimes, and crimes agnist humanity. And the final report was held in Nuremburg, Germany.
