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World war II
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Germany invaded poland
at 4:45 a.m 1.5million german troops invaded poland but poland could not protect them selves because in the process of invading poland they bombed there navl forces and leader adolf hitler claimed it was a deffensive action but france and britten were not convinced on septeber 3 they declared war on germany which initiating world war II -
operation barbarossa
adolf hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the soviot union three groups of german armies more than 3 million german soilders operation barbarossa was a cricial turning point in the world the biggest mistake was that german came as conquers not as liberators but the soviot union was preparied for what ever the germans threw at them -
pearl habor
just before 8 am hundreds of japenese fighter planes bomb the navl base near Honolulu in hawi the barrage lasted 2 hours but it was devasting the japanease detroyed 20 navl ships including 8 battle ships and 300 planes and 2,000 american lost there lives franklin d roosevelt ask congrees to declare war on japan congress aproved 3 days later germany italy declared war on the united staes after 2 years into conflict america was a pt of woldwar II the attactk on pearl harbor was a surprise -
wansee confrence
on the 20th of janurary nazi officals disscued the details of how they were going kill the jewsih people a man heydrich and adolf echminn chef of the central office of jewsih emigrtion and 15b other nazi officals there were million ofn jews in poland and they were trying to kill all jews in poland and germany so thats why germany invaded poland -
operation gormorrah
british bombers raid hamburg operation gomrroh britan has suffered deaths of 167 civilians as the result of germanys bombing in july but then the tables turned on the evening of july they saw british aircraft drop 2,300 tons on incednariy bombs on hamburg in 2 hours the bomb ing was as devastating as germany bombing poland more then 1,500 german civilians died in the british raid -
D-Day
the battle normandy codenamed operation over lord lasted from june to august that resulted in a allied liberation of western europe and the germany controled american soilders and british soilders also canadian soilders landed on 50 beches on a 50mile strech by august the germans had already liberated france and when other countries prepared for d-day hitler was thinking about finshing the alantic wall because 2,400 miles of landmines beches and water obstacles -
Battle of iwo jima
three u.s. divisions landed on iwo jima and was defendeed buy 23.000 japenese soilders some the japenese used tunnls under ground installations and the us had a diffcult time trying to destroy systems except for the prisonars 2 did not surrender until 1951 american loses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded -
VE-Day
on the 8th of may great britan and the united states celebrate the vitor of europe both cities nation wide put up banner and flags to tell them they deffeted gemanys war machine europe finally laid doen there armies and prague germain surrenderd to the soviot antagonist the latter had lost more then 8,000 soilders the main concern for the remaining germains was the soviot forces they attemted a mass exodus to the west when the fighting Czechoslovakia -
battle of okinawa
the battle of okinawa was the biggest island battle of world war II it was the us tenth army 287,000 us troops against 130,000 japenease by the end of the 82th day japan lost more than 77,000 soilder and our alies sufferd more than 65,000 caslities including 14,000 dead the japanease changed there typical tactices at the water edge to the defence in dept to gain time in conjunction but the japanease also made massive air attacks on one way suicide missions
