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German Blitzkrieg
It was an innovative military technique first used by the Germans in World War II.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
Hitler spent many years in World War One fighting a stationary war with neither side making progress for months on end. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-and-eastern-europe/blitzkrieg/
The main effect of Blitzkrieg was how it shortened battle time and conserved artillery, it also saved lives. http://www.history.com/topics/world-wa -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Hitler instructed his armies eastward in a huge invasion on the Soviet Union. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa. The attack was just an expression of Hitler’s twisted mind, reflecting the his ambition and cruelty of Nazi ideas. http://mentalfloss.com/article/28033/operation-barbarossa-biggest-military-adventure-history. Barbarossa failed, and Germany faced a two-front war that it could not win. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-b -
Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter jets attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor was planned to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and it would help Japan get access to precious resources. http://www.pearlharbor.org/history-of-pearl-harbor.asp. Many American ships and planes were destroyed. After the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. http://www.history.com/topics/world- -
Wansee Conference
The Conference was a meeting of high ranked officials from Nazi Germany, They discussed the killing of the Jews. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477. The conference informed other interested agencies related to the execution of the Final Solution. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477.
Place Where Final solution was formally revealed to non-Nazi leaders who would help arrange for Jews to be transported to camps. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?M -
Bataan Death March
The forced transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army. After the Japanese invasion on the Philippines began, the U.S. forces were forced to the Bataan Peninsula were they then surrendered and were taken under by the Japanese. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march.
Lieut. Gen. Homma Masaharu, was charged with responsibility for the march and widespread abuses at Camp O’Donnell, he was then executed. http://www.britannica.com/eve -
Battle of Midway
One of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II. Destroying 4 Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own. The Japanese wanted to draw out the American fleet into a trap. Since the Americans had broken the Japanese codes, The Japanese soon found out and tried to counter their trap. http://www.molossia.org/milacademy/midway.html.
The battle was a turning point in the Pacific War, the victory at Midway also helped aid the allies strategy worldwide. -
Operation Gomorrah
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and raids. Britain had suffered the deaths of over 150 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July, and they were going to make things even with them. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched. The bombings left Hitler in despise, because the ruins marked the end of the war for him and his nazi regime. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorr -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
150,000 Allied soldiers invaded a handful of beaches along the coast of Normandy, France. http://www.history.com/news/landing-at-normandy-the-5-beaches-of-d-day. To end WWII and the Nazi domination of Europe.http://www.history.com/news/landing-at-normandy-the-5-beaches-of-d-day. The beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. http://www.history.com/news/landing-at-normandy-the-5-beaches-of-d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler tried to split the Allied armies in Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg attack through the Ardennes to Antwerp. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge.
Attempted to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1192552/edit.
Hitler’s last major offensive in the war. Germany suffered much more loss than Americans. http://worldhistory2battleofthebulge.weebly.com/results-and-significance.html -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. They entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and theb overran several other camps. The camps were overran at the end of the war to free the Jews, and to end the war once and for all. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131. After the Liberation of the camps many Jews were afraid to return home because of the hatred that still lingered for them all throughout Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. The battle helped end tyhe war and led up to the Allied victory later that year when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima -
Battle of Okinawa
A series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific.
The Japanese used their tactics of suicide bombers and kamikazes to try and take out the U.S. Pacific fleet. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa. The Japanese surrendered as a result of the massive destruction and large amounts of casualties. http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm -
VE-Day
It mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. VE-Day officially marked the end of WWII in Eurpoe. VE-Dy braught peace to The country of Europe as its soldiers all layed down their guns and celebrated the end of the War for their country. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. With Japan in an extremely weak position, the United States used the bomb rather than invade the inland to bring the War to an end. http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/visit_e/est_e/panel/A2_2/2201.htm. Following the bombing, Japan not only surrendered, but suffered massive physical, mental, and psychiological damage. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hi -
VJ-Day
Day when Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. The Japanese surrendered because of all of the damage that it suffered after the two American Atomic bombs were dropped on them. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day. An overwhelming sense of relief covered the Americans as the Japanese surrendered, Fascism had been defeated (according to the american people). http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
