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WWII Begins
Hitler's reign begins his first victim is Poland, Starting war in Europe while the Soviet Union pinned Poland from the other side. And as that happens alliances are quickly tightened forming plans on how to stop war in europe -
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WWII
A War that was involved in the persecution of the Jewish people -
Germany Invades France and captured Paris
The Battle of France was the attack made by the German forces on the country France, the German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. which knocked France out of the war. -
Germany releases a Blitzkreig on the city London
The German air offensive was concentrated, aimed at the direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centers which began with heavy raids on London during the latter phase of the battle for air superiority over the United Kingdom which became known as the Battle of Britain. By September 1940 the Luftwaffe had failed to gain air superiority. The German air fleets were ordered to attack London, thereby drawing RAF Fighter Command into a battle of annihilation -
US sends war supplies to Britain in exchange for military bases
US sends old naval ships and supplies as Britain returns the favor by giving away naval bases, so they could prepare to defend their front of the pacific ocean -
Germany Invades the Soviet Union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the which Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term In July 1940, just weeks after the German conquest of France and the Low Countries, Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union within the following year. On December 18, 1940, he signed Directive 21 (code-named Operation "Barbarossa, the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union -
Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions they planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.[13] -
Declaration Of War
The United States has formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times, each upon prior request by the President of the United States. Four of those five declarations came after hostilities had begun. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."[9] -
D-Day Liberation of Europe
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s troops. -
U.S Drops Nukes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
