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Holocaust
-Nazi murdered, Nazis, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, and homosexuals
-Systematically killed in gas chambers
-Mass murder of approximately six million Jews -
Germany invades Poland
-German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west
-Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura
-Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock, German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland -
Stalin attacks Finland
-It was also called the "Winter War"
-The Soviet Union demanded the territories for security reasons
-The Red Army wanted to recover the Grand Duchy of Finland territory -
Germany attacks France
-known as fall as france
-France signed an armistice
-German forces outflanked (:D) the Maginot Line -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
-The criticism of Chamberlain, made it clear to the people that Churchill should be appointed
-Winston Churchill became prime minister of Britain for his second term in 1951
-On April 5, 1955 at age 80, Churchill resigned as prime minister -
Battle of Britain
-The German attemptted to overthrow British air force in order to invade Britian
-to gain air superiority
-Britain negotioated an armistice -
Lend-Lease Act
-it is formally titled: An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States
-$50 million worth of supplies were shipped
-US supplied United Kingdom, USSR, China, France, and other allied nations with materiels -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
-known as "lighning war"
-failed to invade soviet union
-Germans failed in Russia because they could not sustain their long supply lines -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
-Japanese bombed the US navy fleet
-8 ships were damaged, 4 of them sunk
-American entry to WW2 -
Japanese internment camps
-110,000 Japense lived in the pacific coast of the US
-2,000 of them were prisoners
-Japanese ancestry were excluded from the pacific coast -
Battle of Midway
-Yamamoto planned to invade at Midway island (a base for attacking Hawaii)
-US won
-The most important naval battle of the Pacific
-turning point in the Pacific -
Battle of El Alamein
-The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa
-German troops attack British forces
-Allies won -
Guadalcanal
-Japan vs US
-It was the first victory of America in the south Pacific
-Guadalcanal was important to control of the sea lines of communication -
Battle of Stalingrad
-The war was a successful Soviet defense of Stalingrad
-Germany vs Soviet union
-Soviets won by surrounding the city and trapping German troops inside -
Tehran Conference
-Between American, British, and Russian (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) leaders about plans of attacking
-Discussed things such as attacking France
-Place:Tehran, Iran -
D-Day
Invasion of France this included intelligence, coordination, secrecy, and planning
-Allied forces invaded France -
Hitler’s suicide
-Hitler killed himself after the defeat of WW2 at the same time his wife swallowd a capsule
-place: in his underground bunker
-SS men carried their bodies up to the Chancellery’s courtyard, covered them with gasoline, and lit them on fire -
Yalta Conference
-Meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin to plan the final defeat and occupation of Germany
-Agreed to divide germany into zones
-germanyalso had to pay the Soviet union to compensate for its life and property -
F.D.R’s death
-died by polio
-place: Little White House Warm Springs, GA
-time:3:35 PM -
Mussolini’s assassination attempt
-Shooter: Walter Audisio.
-Audisio was the communist and his commander who was given the order to kill Mussolini by the National Liberation Committee
-Mussolini screamed "Shoot me in the chest!" Audisio shot him in the chest -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
-Island hopping in the Pacific
-Strategy of capturing Japenese held islands to gain control of the Pacific -
Potsdam Conference
-Discussion between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman
-Negotiate terms for the end of WW2 -
Nuremburg Trials
-22 Nazi leaders were charged withwaging war of aggression
-"trialed" for murder of 11 million people
--also accused of committing crimes against humanity -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in order to end the war completely
-Time: 8:16 Am(hiroshima)
-Nagasaki was dropped 3 day later after Hiroshima -
Formation of the U.N
-Union formed in order to keep peace ad security within the world
-Based in New York
48 counties joined, US and the Soviet Union -
Marshall Plan
-Plan to rebuild Eastern European countries to prevent the spread of communism
-Provide food,machinery, other materias to rebuild western europe
-congress debated $12.5 billion program in 1948
