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Ivasion of Poland
On September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Poland's army was defeated in just weeks of the invasion, in September 27 1939. After that, Britain and France declared war because of their agreement with Poland. Hitler had been planing this attack since March that year ever since the Polish occupied the remainder of
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War on Germany
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany because of the agreement they had with Poland. On this day, the Prime Minister at the time, Prime Minister Chamberlain, announced to the British that a war had started between their country and Germany. World War II begun. http://www.archives.com/genealogy/newspapers-world-war-2.html -
Armistice with Germany
The French government wanted and armistice that would end all of the fighting with Germany. It is signed this day, and over two thirds of France is occupied by Germans. Also, the french army could not exist any more. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/francesurrenders.htm -
German Troops Enter Romania
Because of the government fails in Romania Hitler decided that he was going to invade the country. Romania joined the axis powers on november 23 1940 and they joined the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-69/JFQ-69_92-98_DiNardo.pdf -
British forces arrive in Greece
Mussolini suprised everyone when he invaded Greece and the Greeks achieved in pushingthe Italian invaders into Albania. The axis powers spent the next three months fighting. This battle really caused Hitler a lot of stress because Hitler needed many of Greece's reasources like oil. http://dingeengoete.blogspot.mx/2014/03/this-day-in-wwii-history-mar-7-1941.html -
Operation Barbarossa Begins
Operation Barbarossa is the name that they gave to Germany's invasion of Russia. It was the largest military attack of world war 2 and caused many consequences for the Russian people. They had planned this since 1940 but couldn't do it until 1941 because of the battle of britain. They were doing really good, until winter
hit and they didn't have supplies so they gave up. http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2013/06/21/operation-barbarossa-the-invasion-of-the-soviet-union-by-nazi-germany -
Preparing for the final solution
On this day, Hitler ordered Goering Heydrich to plan what it took economically to make the final solution happen. They wanted to evacuate and kill every single jew and wouldn't stop until they achieved it. -
Pearl Harbor Bomb
On this day, hundres of Japanese fighter planes attacked the american naval base at Pearl Harbor close to Honolulu Hawaii. It lasted two hours and destroyed everything including battleships and airplanes. More than two thousand soldiers and sailors died in this attack and at least one thousand were injured. This night, president Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Germany and Italy, Japan's allies declared war on the US because of this. The US was finally involved in WWII. http://news.bbc.co.uk/o -
Final Solution begins but not in text
The final solution, which basically was to kill every single jew begins but nobody finds out about it. The only people who know about it are of course the Nazis and the people. They are taking everyone to extermination camps or killing them right there. They started taking them to the ghettos at first, and then transferred everyone to the camps later on. -
Japanese-Americans are sent to relocation centers
They established the relocation centers because of the Pearl Harbor and the war against Japan. The conditions in the camps where really bad, they were overcrowded and had poor living conditions. Food was rationed out and they didn't have any plumbing or anything for them to cook with. They ended in 1944. -
Mass Murders
Mass murders began when the Nazis started taking all the jews and disabled people to the extermination camps. People didn't come out of the extermination camps. They never gave them food or water and were obligated to work. Most people were killed in the gas chambers and then cremated, but some died of exahustion, hunger and some even because of scientific expirements. http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Jews/+Doc-Jews-Holocaust-TheSixMillion&OtherNumbers/DecreasingHolocaustNumbe -
Bernard Montgomery
British commander, Bernard Montgomery takes charge of Eith army in North Africa. This is important because it changed the way the army fought and created different results. It as one of the most controversial things that happened in that time but it was still done. -
D-Day
American, British and Canadian forces attacked five beaches on the coast of France's Normandy region. It was one of the largest military things that has happened in history and it requiered a lot of planning. They were originally going to do it in June 5 but couldn't do it because of the weather. Thousands of soldiers were killed, wounded or lost. Less than a week later after it started, the becahes were completely taken over. It ended by the end of August. http://www.archives.com/genealogy/im -
Battle of the Bulge
Three German armies started the deadliest battle of the war in the west. It was also the costliest battle the US has ever done, which suffered in 100,000 casualties. -
Yalta Conference
It was the second time that the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier, Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a meeting. They agreed during the conference that they needed to demand Germany's surrender and began plans for the world post-war. Stalin also agreed to enter Asian war against Japan. Most of this was kept secret and became very controversial once everyone knew about it. http://historyofrussia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/NYT-Yalta-Conferen -
US Troops
The US troops decided to encircle the Germans in the Ruhr. They wanted to do this to finally stop them and everything that they were doing. It lasted two weeks but at the end, they were able to end them. More than 300,000 Germans became prisioners of the war making it the largest single german surrender in the war. Hitler comitted suicide two weeks after this knowing he had done wrong and was going to have to pay for it, a week later, world war 2 ended. http://www.thejucketts.com/documentssave -
Surrender of Germans
On this day, Germany signed a surrender which made it the end of World War II. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/may-7-1945-nazi-germany-surrenders-in-world-war-ii/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 -
Hiroshima Bomb
The world's first atomic bomb was used this day, a bomb sent to Hiroshima in Japan from the US. It completely destroyed 90% of the city, killed thousands of people, and harmed many more that later on died from radiation and diseases from the bomb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm -
Nagasaki Bomb
This was the second bomb Japan recieved from the US. It killed less people than the one in Hiroshima but still thousands died and thousands were diseased or left without a home. The US wanted to do this so that Japan would surrender but Japan didn't want to give up because of their pride and honor to their country. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm -
Japan Surrenders
Japan finally surrendered after the two massive disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Emperor Hirohito announced on the radio the devastating news that they had to give up. Everything ended after this day. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/2/newsid_3582000/3582545.stm
