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Hitler Invades Poland
Germany Invades Poland which initiated WW2 in Europe. It was a very fast advancement through Poland and when they did they went to Warsaw. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is and offensive type of war and to strike on an enemy. It helped give older officers and young more flexibility -
Winston Churchill becoming prime minister
Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 and then Churchill was chosen because of everyone thinking he could suceed Chamberlain. He also raised the school leavers age to 14 and it used to be 11. -
Evaucuation of Dunkirk
It involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port. The evacuation caused a boost for the British morale. -
Battle of Britain
Th victory for Brittian winning the Battle demonstarted lost of courage and resilence. They were also able to remain from Nazi occupation. -
Operation Barbosa
Hitler began operation Barbosa in june 1941, the codename for the invasion of the soviet union. The Soviets won against the German troop made a big turning point in the war. -
The Blitz
German Blitzkrieg on the United Kingdom lasted 8 months, from September of 1940 to May 1941. London was bombed for 57 consecutive nights and on May 10-11 1941 was when the biggest attacks happened. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan did a surprise attack on the U.S to try and prevent them from brinigng there pacific fleet from interfering with its planned millitary actions in Southeast Asia. -
Rationing
During WW2 they had to start cutting back the citizens back from using as much goods such as sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes. This all happened because they needed to make sure they had enough stuff for their troops. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was the biggest battle of the entire war, the Soviet union inflicted a very harsh defeat against Germany and it involved a very important city on the Volga river. -
Battle of Midway
The U.S and Japanese Naval forces engaged in a five day battle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that changed the course of the war. The Japanese intended on winning this battle so they could so they could take over midway and be able to do following attacks on Pearl Harbor. -
The invasion of Italy
Allied forces sustained 2,009,killed 7,050, and wounded 3,500 people. Italy ended up accomplishing what they had wanted to and made the axis powers do what they said to. -
The North African surrender
On May 13 1943 the Axis forces surrendered which yielded over 250,00 prisoners from the war. The great loss of the experienced troops reduced the millitary compacity greatly. -
D-Day
D-Day was an operation where the land, air, and sea forces from allied contires were brought together for what became known as the largest invasion force in all history. -
The German surrender
After they had fought heavily the Soviets neared Adolf Hitlers command bunker in central Berlin. Directly after that Hitler commited suicide, after that the Berlin fell to the Soviets and then the German armed forces had to unconditionally surrender.