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Liberation of concentration camps
These concentration camps were first started by the Soviet Union. They initially held about 45,000 prisoners.However the camps had fallen to 7,500, grew to 21,000 and by the start of World War II it had grew up to 715,000 in January 1945. -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkrieg)
Germany wanted to reunite all German speaking people. They also wanted to expand and gain more land.They felt that they need to have more "living space". (notes) -
U.S Lend Lease and Military aid with Britain
The lend lease act was U.S lending to Britain.The president wanted Congress to replace "cash-and-carry" with "Lend-Lease," which gave the president authority to sell, exchange, lend, or lease . They were lending military needs to Britain and other European countries if needed. -
Germany invaded France
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Germany bombed London
The German attack was initially for military targets on the outskirts of London. However they were drifted off course and accidentally went to the center of London; destroying homes, killing civilians. Then Prime Minister Winston Churchill, believing it was a deliberate attack, ordered Berlin to be bombed the next evening. -
Germany Invaded the Soviet Union
Germany believed that Soviet Union was a threat.Therefor Hitler and Germany wanted complete elimination of any threat.So they invaded
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Operation Barbarossa
was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.(Wikipedia) -
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
The attack Japan did was a surprise attack. Their plan was to take out our navy as quick as possible. They wanted to move into the Dutch East Indies and Malaya to conquer territories that could provide important natural resources such as oil and rubber. -
U.S declares war on Germany and Japan
U.S declared war on Japan after they attacked us (Pearl Harbor) and right after we declared war Germany declared war on us.The decision was made by Adolf Hitler. Germany was obliged to come to the aid of Japan if a third country attacked Japan, but not if Japan attacked a third country. -
U.S victory in battle of Midway against Japan
Six months before this victory, U.S was attacked at Pearl Harbor . In revenge we went and bombed Japan making them back out and allow us to have the victory. Japan was told that they shouldn't attack U.S because they wouldn't know what they are getting into, however they did and got wiped out. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprsing
The Ghetto Uprising was Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population. The remaining ghetto population were being sent to Treblinka.The uprising started when the ghetto refused to surrender. Therefor Nazi Germany ordered the burning of the ghetto which had about 13,000 Jew's killed and many burnt alive and/or suffocated. -
D-Day to begin the liberation of Western europe
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning (History.com) -
Battle of the Bulge
This battle was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war. (wikipedia) -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major battle in which the United States marine corps eventually captured the island. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombing's killed at least 129,000 people. U.S.A wanted to make Japan surrender as quickly as possible to minimize american casualties.
