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German Blitzkrieg
http://www.2worldwar2.com/blitzkrieg.htm Blitzkreig, German for "Lightning war", is a military tactic designed to create chaos among enemy lines through the use of mobile forces and locally concetrated firepower. It's "lighting fast" rapid movement andsuprise attacks led to phenomenal executional results in military campaigns. Though the Blitzkrieg was a succesful startegy, its effrots were ultimately in vain because Germany still lost. -
Japanese Invasion of China
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A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. -
Germany Invasion of Poland
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Approxiametly 4:45am, German troops invaded the borders of Poland with German-controlled territory in order for Adolf Hotler to colonize and enslave Poland territories. Though the German forces advanced forward in battle at a quick rate, the invasion officially ended in on October 1, 1939 with the division of Poland by Germant and the Soviet Union. -
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Fall of Paris
http://www.historynet.com/fall-of-france
The Fall of Paris, also known as the Battle of Paris, occured when the Germans invaded France and arrived in Paris. At the time, Paris wasn't properly prepared, so ulitmately they were defenseless. The German and French officials met, and came to a conclusion that Germany would use the north and west areas of France.France remained under the control of the Axis. -
The Wannsee Conference
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Held, on 20 January 1942, The Wansee Coference was lead by SS-Lieutenant General Reinhard Hreydrich, the Chief of Security Police and Security Service . He summoned fourteen men that represent governmental and military branches the practical aspects of the Final Solution on how the Nazis would exterminate the Jewish populations of Europe. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
At 8 a.m. near Honolulu, Hawaii ,hundreds of Japanese fitgher planes attacked the American naval base at the Pearl Harbor for nearly 2 hours. About 20 American Naval vessels, icluding 8 battleships, and nearly 2,000 airplanes. Over 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died and 1,000 were wounded. Due to the attack President FDR asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Within two years, America joined WWII. -
Bataan Death March
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On April 9, 1942, the United States surrenedered to the Bataan Peninsula, on the main Philippine Island of Luzon, to the Japanese. This happened basically because they surrenderred to Japan resulting in American getting revenge by invading the island Leyte. -
Battle of Midway
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/midway.htm
The Battle of MIdway was a naval battle in the Pacific of WWII. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States xdefeated Japan in the Battle of Midway. This Battle happened because Japan wanted to defeat the U.S. as a power in the Pacific. The aftermath of this was that the U.S. won the battle. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Ghettp Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. Several thousand Jews had been buried in the debris, and more than 56,000 had been captured. About 30,000 of them were either immediately shot or transported to death camps. -
Operation Gomorrah
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched Operation Gomorrah, named after the evil Biblical city that God destroyed, was a strategic aerial bombing campaign directed against the North German city of Hamburg.The bombing campaign was intended to inflict devastating blows to both German armaments production and the morale of German industrial workers.The air assault destroyed a significant percentage of Hamburg. -
D-Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began 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. It resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
Liberation of Concetration Camps
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131 As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they 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. -
Operation Thunderclap
http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden
Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. Compared to most other German cities the air raid precautions and the range of air -
Battle of Iwo Jima
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The Japanese fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations that were difficult to find and destroy. -
Battle of Okinawa
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href='http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm' >http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm</a> The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The Japanese fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations that were difficult to find and destroy. -
VE Day
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Victory in Europe Day, a public holday created for the Gerat Britain and United States to celebrate the the formal surrender of German Troops in order to eldue the grasp of Soviet Foreces after loosing more than 8,000 soldiers in battle. -
Dropping of Atomic Bomb
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
To retaliate against the the attack on Pearl Harbor, on August 6, 1945 at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, The Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped the world first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a city in Japan. More than thousands of people were wither killed or injured and another 10,000+ were dead by the end of that year. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day. A day marked to clebrate the announcement of Japan's former surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, nchored in Tokyo Bay, resulting in spontaneous celebration over the WWI finallly ending. -
Battle of the Bulge
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/battle-bulge.htm
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. Twitter Google Its objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously–in September 1870, August 1914, and May 1940.
