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German Blitzkreig
Germany invades Poland, setting off war in Europe. The Soviet Union also invaded Poland and the Baltic nations. -
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Battle of France
Germany invades France and captures Paris. Hitler invades the Belgium in May and June controls France. -
Battle of Britain
Hitlers plan to soften Britain for invasion by continuously bombing. Unsuccessful and called off after 11 months of bombing. -
Lend-Lease Act
Would lend arms or other supplies to our allies. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”
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Lend-Lease Act
The United States gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan was trying to establish an Asian Empire, and only the U.S. stood in it's way. F.D.R froze Japanese financial assets and stopped exporting oil to Japan which caused Japan to attack.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan trying to establish an Asian Empire, and only the U.S. stood in it's way. F.D.R froze Japanese financial assets and stopped exporting oil to Japan which caused the attack.
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U.S. Declares War
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. The United States declared war on Japan and Germany.
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U.S. Declares War
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Bataan Death March
The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando.
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Battle of Midway
Turning point in the war. United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, 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.
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Battle of Stalingrad
Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. -
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp.
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D-Day
During World War II , 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, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
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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.
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in 1945, forcing Japan to surrender and ending World War II.
