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Invasion of Poland (1939)
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Germany used more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes to attack the polish army.
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Germany Invaded France (1940)
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Battle of Britain (1940)
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Lend Lease (1941)
During this time the United States helped other countries that were affected by The World War II. Britain, the Soviet Union, and China were one of the countries we helped with firearms.
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Operation Barbarossa (1941)
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Germany Invading the Soviet Union (1941)
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Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor (1941)
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United States declaring War on Japan and Germany (1941)
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Bataan Death March (1942)
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Battle of Midway (1942)
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
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D-Day: America Landing (1944)
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Battle of the Bulge (1944)
Last German offensive invasion on the western front. Hitler used his blitzkrieg tactic and tried to separate the allied forces. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes forest in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name.
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Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
On Jan. 27,1945, German soldiers began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. Many of these people lost their families and were broken apart, they were mistreated.These camps were horrible everyone suffered every day.
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Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima represented to the Americans the pinnacle of forcible entry from the sea. The huge striking force was more experienced, better armed and more powerfully supported than any other offensive campaign to date in the Pacific War. http://www.history.com/news/the-battle-of-iwo-jima-begins-70-years-ago -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing (1945)
In Aug.06,1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry. The United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon. The United States then, managed the first successful test of an atomic bomb, but the time Germany had already been defeated.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
