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Germany's invasion of Poland
On this day Germany and Poland and after heavy shelling and bombing, with more than 2000 tanks and 1000 planes Poland was defeated. -
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German Blitzkrieg
During the war with Poland, Germany used a special bombing term called Blitzkrieg which meant lighting war. Bombs rained down from the skies on to the enemy. -
Fall of Paris
In the year 1940 German forces enter Paris and already 2 million Parisians had fled. Near the end Germany and France had signed Second Armistice in Compiegne which let
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Pearl Harbor
On this day the U.S was attacked at pearl harbor in Hawaii by the Japanese Navy, this attack was the start of world war II. Japan had destroyed many naval U.S ships, but america held on for the third wave of planes and Japan retreated. -
Wannsee Conference
A conference held by the Nazis to plan how to eliminate the Jews from east to west in Germany. They wanted to speed up the emigration of the Jews. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the pearl harbor, the united states defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles. Japan tried to surprise U.S again, but the U.S hacked their aircraft codes and had their own surprise and crushed the naval fleet of Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was a successful soviet defensive battle and one of the bloodiest, killing soldiers, and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. They pushed the Germans away making turns in alliances from then on. -
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
From April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
Operation Gomorrah
July 24 1943 British aircraft bombers raid Hamburg Germany getting revenge for Germany bombing London. In the night Britain come in and kill more than 1500 civilians in Germany on the first raid. Britain had came in with 2300 tons of explosives raining on the Germans, destroying 280,000 buildings and killing more than 30,000 people. -
Allied invasion of Italy
Montgomery led 150,000 ashore of the island of Sicily, Italy trying to get an alliance. On the day of the landing a secret meeting was held, with the Italian gov't agreeing to the alliance, but no public announcement was made afterwards. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion-1944)
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Code named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day.The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Operation Thunderclap
On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people. It was the single most destructive bombing of the war—including Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and all the more horrendous because little, if anything, was accomplished strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.Despite the conditions the marines had wiped them out. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Liberation of concentration camps
General Interest 1945
Dachau liberated
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On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division. -
VE Day
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Cold War 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the bomb had killed 80,000 people.Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. -
VJ Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II(VJ Day).The term has also been used for Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
Battle of Bulge
In December 1945, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense.