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Holocaust
The holocaust was one of the biggest/saddest things to happen in history. In 1933, the Nazis killed nearly 2/3 European Jews, but about 60 million people (counting homosexuals, & other ethnic groups.) In 1921, Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi party, and they believed that their race was superior to others. The Holocaust killed nearly 60 million people by sending them to concentration camps, killing them with guns, starving them, sending them to gas chambers, and working them to death. Afte -
Germany's invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Pol -
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German Blitzkreig
Blitzkreig is a German word for "lighting war". It was a military tactic designed to create disorganization among the enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It's successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives. German forces tried out the Blitzkreig in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at -
Wannsee Confrence
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." It was a conference to see how they were finally gonna end the Jews, or get rid of the Jews. "Instead of emigration, there is now a further possible solution to which the Führer has already signified his consent - namely deportation to the east." -
Atomic Bomb Drops
1945, the United states was the first & only nation to use atomic weapons during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of ww2. Since 1940, United States had been working on the developing an atomic bombs. The war against Japan in the pacific, however, continued to get bigger. President Harry Truman, warned by his advisors that an attempt to invade Japan would end with horrific American casualties. Approximately 80,000 people are killed from the blast, and 35,000 are injure -
D Day
The Battle of Normandy is often called D-Day, it lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated and by the following spring the allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. There were over 2,000 American casualties. Baby the end of the day there were approximately 156,000 Allied troops had succ
