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World War 2

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  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    The Holocaust referred to as the Shoah was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
    There are so many deaths around 6 million.
  • Night of the Long Knives

    Night of the Long Knives
    It was during this speech that Hitler gave the purge its name Night of the Long Knives. Hitler claimed that 61 had been executed while 13 had been shot resisting arrest and three had committed suicide. Others have argued that as many as 400 people were killed during the purge.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II.
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland
    Stalin attacks finland located is eastern fineland. The war began 3 months, after the outbreak of World War II and ended with the Moscow peace of Treaty on 30th March 1940.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France
    Battle of France is locate at: France, Low Countries, result's: German victory, They planned for the German army, but when it attacked France, to go through Belgium. After the day they declaring war on Russia, therefore, the Germans asked for permission for their army to pass through Belgium. The Belgians refused! So on next day, Germany invaded Belgium.
  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. was one of the most dramatic days in British history.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Battle of Britain was won by Royal Air Force. Whose victory not only blocked the possibility of invasion but also created the conditions for Great Britain's survival, for the extension of the war, and for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany.
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans
    The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
    German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 and the Netherlands and France in 1940.
  • Bombing of Pearl Habor

    Bombing of Pearl Habor
    embargo blocked the Japanese from receiving crucial material, such as steel and aviation fuel. And the United States take placed this embargo because Japan is tried to take over more territory. That's why Japanese army decided to attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    On February 2, 1943, General Paul-us surrendered what remained of his army-some 91,000 men. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps
    List of Detention Camps, Temporary Detention Centers, and Department of Justice Internment Camps. Permanent detention camps that held internees from March, 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. Amache, Colorado Opened August 24, 1942. Closed October 15, 1945.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II, they took a place on June 5, 1942. The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific area.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of World War Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943 And the war was ended on July 27, 1942
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    End of the World War II, Honiara, on the north coast of Guadalcanal, became the new capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Battle was one of the southern Solomon islands, in the south pacific.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference
    The Tehran Conference is a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Normandy Landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Yalta Conference start in February 4-11, 1945, it's major World War II conference of the Allied leaders, , Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat.
  • F.D.R's death

    F.D.R's death
    Death cause: Cerebral Hemorrhage
  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination
    Mussolini’s assassination located is Giuliano, Italy. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism.
  • Hitler's suicide

    Hitler's suicide
    In 1945, on this day holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    The Potsdam Conference is important because the meeting was at Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations. They are The Soviet Union represented by Joseph Stalin, Britain by Winston Churchill, and United States by President Harry S. Truman. This all are at the Potsdam meeting.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
    President Harry S. Truman, warned some advisers attempt to invade Japan would in horrific American casualties, ordered that new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. And on August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world,s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
    The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials
    The Nuremberg first law was passed in September 15, 1935. Nuremberg proceeding, lasting from December 1946 to April 1949, they are grouped together as the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The president President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan on April 3, 1948, granting $5 billion in aid to 16 European nations.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift is the end of the Blockade. By spring 1949, it was clear that the Soviet blockade of West Berlin had failed. It had not persuaded West Berliners to reject their allies in the West, nor had it prevented the creation of a unified West German state.
  • MacArthur plan for Japan

    MacArthur plan for Japan
    The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was built During the early years of the Cold War,
    at West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    in 1962 the World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends.The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.