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Hitler Takes over Germany
on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor. -
ww2 Starts
On September 3 1939 Britain and France Declared war on Nazi Germany. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
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Germany Invades Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a navy base in Hawaii and was surprised attacked by the Japanese. MAny Men and women died and some were civilians. This event is what drew the US into WW2 -
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Battle of midway
The Battle of Midway had been a decisive American victory. As a result of the battle, the United States had crippled Japan's ability to launch further large-scale mobile strikes against Allied forces. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad occurred on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in what is now southern Russia. -
D-DAY
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. We did this corporation to get some push into freeing France from Nazi Power. -
Battle of Iwo JIma
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Truman Becomes President
Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt -
HITLER dies
Hittler Killed himself in his bunker on this day. They burned his body so that way the public did not get to hang it up for everyone to see. -
Germany Surrenders
On May 7, 1945, the Allied vise slammed shut on what remained of Nazi Germany. With American, British, and French troops advancing from the west and the Soviets overrunning the eastern part of the country, the German high command had little choice but to surrender their battered forces. -
Hiroshima
On August 6th 1945 the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and killed hundreds of thousands. The reason for this was to force Japan to surrender and to end the war. -
Nagasaki Bombing
We did the same thing to Nagasaki the same as we did to Hiroshima We did it to further force Japan to surrender but also to keep the Soviets out of Japan by displaying American military power. -
End Of WW2
On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, and the Second World War came to an end.