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Germany invades Poland
Germany attacked Poland. It was mainly an offensive act, Hitler claimed it to be defense, which has some truth in it. His main reason for invading Poland, was to prove that Germany was the number one nation (Nationalism.) The German invasion of Poland acted as the last straw, causing WWII to brake out.
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Germany invades france
Germany did the same thing they did during WWI to attack France. They went through Belgium, except this time, it worked. Belgium and Luxembourg, surrendered, and the French evacuated the area, giving Germany an easy time at capturing Paris. The germans attacked France, because they were sore about how their attack of WWI went, and they knew they could do better. This resulted in the French surrendering, and the axis powers had gained more power.
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Germany Bombs London; the Battle of Britain
Germany ended up losing to Britain in this battle, which was a turning point in the war, and a huge win for the Allies. Britain was the only country that was resisting Germany in Europe, so the only option was for Germany to attack. Because of this battle, and Britain winning it, that gave the Allies the chance to re-take Europe, and it lead to them beating the Axis powers.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
Germany invaded the USSR, because they hated many of the people that were living there. There were communists, a threat to Nazi Germany, and many Jewish people, also a threat to the Nazis. The Nazis came into the USSR with a vast, and mighty army. They rounded up all of the communists, and jews, and started "Mass murder" initiations. As a result of this, the Soviets prepared a bigger attack on Germany, to reclaim what they had lost. And sent a crippling attack to Germany.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan had no specific reasons for attacking Pearl Harbor. Japan releases a deadly, 2 hour barrage on Pearl Harbor, destroying 20 naval vessels, 8 huge battleships, and 300+ airplanes. 2000 americans died, and 1000 were injured. This resulted in America Joining in WWII, first against Japan, then when Japan's Allies were also against us, we were officially in WWII.
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Japanese Internment in America
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all Japanese americans to be rounded up, and put into internment camps, because we felt threatened by the Japanese, due to the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. Nothing major happened as a result of this, except many Japanese had a newfound hate for U.S. government, it could of helped our situation, because weather or not something would have happened, nothing did either way.
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Bataan Death March
This march was what the Japanese forced the Americans and Filipinos to go on as a result of the Japanese win. They went 65 miles, and survivors had to go to prisoner-of-war camps. This happened because of the defeat of the Battle of Bataan, which was an attack from Japan, which took place after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As a result of this happening, Americans came back to Bataan, with a bigger army, and avenged the captured Americans, and filipinos.
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D-Day invasion
the Battle of Normandy, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. This happened because Nazi Germany was getting out of control, and was getting too close to "World domination" so an attack to stop them had to happen, and this was that attack. As a result of the D-Day invasion, Nazi Germany lost it's grip on Europe, and other places in the world, and was the reason that the Allies won WWII.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was a Japanese army/navy base, and the U.S. attacked it, and defeated them. The Americans attacked Iwo Jima, because they needed a military base near Japan, and Iwo Jima was a good option for them. Iwo Jima was a key military base for the Japanese, and it gave the Allies a good victory crippling the Japanese.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
The Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi escaped Axis powered countries, and now lived in the United States. In late 1941, they helped the Americans design and build an Atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was developed, to bring an Attack to Japan. As revenge for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the two Atomic bombs were launched at Japan, they both worked too effectively. We quickly realized that These bombs were very dangerous, and had to be used on the minimum.
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