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Blitzkrieg
It is a tactic in war made by Germany. It surprises people and hits in a place to take out all of the enemies in minutes. It is troops on the ground, Tanks and aerial support -
Holocaust
Holocaust was Germanys plan to kill every jewish people in the world. They did make camps so the jewish people could work there to build roads on houses but they didnt get any food or water so when they was unable to work they got either shot or lured into showers to be gassed. Old people and skinny people was set strait to get killed. These camps wasnt discovered before the russians invaded germany in 1945. In all 6 million jews was killed. -
1. September 1939
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland and with that world war 2 started -
Dunkirk
In WW2 400000 men in the british army was at Dunkirk in France to protect. Then they got flanked by Germany. Then the german army was given command to kill everybody. But Hitler didnt want r'pt risk his souldiers, so he ordered Luftwaffe to bobm them. But the germans was slow so the british army got to rescue 338 000 soldiers and 40000 vehicles before the german army killed the rest. -
Italy
In WW2 Mussolini was the leader of Italy. He was on the side as Hitler, They invaded many lands in Africa and some countries in Balcan -
Operation Barbosa
In 1941 Germany tried to blitzkrieg Soviet and Hitler thought that germany would reach Moscow before Soviet could move troops over from the east where they fought against Japan. -
Japan
In december 1941 Japan did want to take over the western pacific ocean. They fought against some American islands and european colonies in the pacific ocean. -
USA
After Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor USA joined WW2, With so many extra troops the allies pushed the Germans out of France, Belgium, The Netherlands and pushed the Germans to Berlin. -
Pearl Harbor
After Japan took over some of the US islands, US cut their petrol line to Japan, Japan then didn't have any other thing to do than to attack the US. Japan then send some people to sign a peace treaty with the US to take their focus away from Japan. Then on 7 decembre 1941, Japan launched the biggest aerial attack in history towards pearl harbor in Hawaii to take down the whole US fleet.
Japan did success but didn't take out every ship. -
Hitlers suicide
In April 1945 Hitler knew that Germany was losing the war so he took his wife to the Fuhrer bunker and shot her, then he swallowed some pills that should kill him and then he shot himself in the head by a pistol. -
Luftwaffe
The German airforce that was between 1910-1945. They were one of the biggest airforces in the world. They bombed London many times. -
Loses
Around 40 million people was killed and over 20 million granades was exploded. After the war Germany had to take the bill of the war and their valuta crashed. -
The Manhattan project
The Manhattan project was United states, Canada and UKs atom bomb mission to end WW2. They made 2 different types of bombs
An Uranium bomb and a Plutonium bomb. They made multiple bombs and tested one on 16 July 1945 in the desert in New Mexico. Then on 6 August 1945 a atomic bomb named Little Boy was sent to the city Hiroshima in Japan. 9 August 1945 a Plutonium bomb named Fat Man was sent to the city Nagasaki in Japan.
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D-Day
It was an operation to liberate France from Germany.
It took place in Normandie on 6 June 1945. It is the largest invasion by sea in history. -
West and East Germany
After the war Germany was splited in two lands, west and east. In the east there was comunism and people starved. But in the west there was democracy and many people had it good. But they couldnt go form west to east and east to west because there was a wall that nobody could cross. In 1989 the wall was removed and then Germany became one land again.