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Germany's invasion of Poland
Germany attack poland without the fear os soviet intervention
Adolf Hitler clamed the massiive Invasion was a defensive action
Gpverment evacuted to britain was unable to returen to poland -
German Blitzkrieg
It was a type of bombing also known as LIghtning war.
launches attacks on all Soviet airfields and catches most of their planes on the ground. In a few hours the Soviet air forces are crippled and unable to launch effective counter attacks or provide support to their ground forces.
House were knocked down -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. -
D-Day
The day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II
Forced Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in world war 1 they couldnt handle a war on both side of them -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive
attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium
it cost germans any chance they had to have any type of Victory on the Western Front -
Battle of Okinawa
It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies Okinawa was a well defended island that the Americans needed to capture as they advanced across the Pacific towards Japan -
VE Day
To mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.The day Nazi surrendered to the allies -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties dead plus wounded ,than their Japanese counterparts. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater
