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German Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It was successful and shortened the amount of time spent on some battles. when in less than six weeks the German army crushed the combined forces of four nations.
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Germans invasion on France
church hill asks Franklin Roosevelt for support when the Germans impose a curfew on the french. The U.S. was prepared to send materials to help them. Millions had fled France before German tanks had even got to Paris. While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet.
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the Battle of Britain began
After Germany and Hitler had conquered most of Europe, including France, the only major country left to fight them was Great Britain. The Battle of Britain was when Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion.
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Lend Lease
providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It was to help aid the countries that were under attack and to help them by giving them materials and other resources to help them fight in the war. By doing this the countries that need help will not have to pay right away but they will have to pay in the years to come.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The next week Franklin Roosevelt wanted to go to war with japan.
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germany and japan declare war on the U.S.
after pearl harbor america declared war on japan and Germany saw this as an opportunity. First he incites war, then falsifies the causes, then odiously wraps himself in a cloak of Christian hypocrisy and slowly but surely leads mankind to war
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Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains -
U.S. was victorious against Japan
the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position.
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union
more than two million troops fought in close quarters – and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. But the Battle of Stalingrad ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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D-day
they led the Germans to believe that Norway and other locations were also potential invasion targets. Many tactics were used to carry out the deception, including fake equipment; a phantom army commanded by George Patton and supposedly based in England, across from Pas-de-Calais; double agents; and fraudulent radio transmissions.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge 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 the war in Europe -
Liberation of concentration camps
Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied. Only after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Us wins and japan drops out of war.
