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Lusitania *Major Event
American's outraged at the sinking of the Britain ship the Lusitania by German U-Boats killing 1,200 people including 128 Americans -
British blockade
Britain used a naval blockade to keep Germany from trading. Germany's responded by using German unrestricted submarine warfare to attack the British navy and any merchant supplying the allies -
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany to mexico Proposing a secret alliance between them and asking Mexico to start a war with America so they would be already occupied rather than to join the war against him -
The U.S declares war
U.S declares war on Germany, Millions of american soldiers arrive in 1918 and boost the allies moral. -
Surrenders
Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, Austria- Hungary all surrendered to Germany -
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Germany
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Germany agrees
Germany agrees to the armistice.
Which becomes Armistice day.
Later becoming Veteran's day. -
Germany reinstitutes the draft
Germany re-institutes the draft. -
Nuremberg Laws
These laws stated that all Jews were stripped of German citizenship, fired from all jobs, Marriages between Jews and Aryans forbidden, Jews now are forced to always carry ID cards. -
Begins to militarize the Rhineland
Germany began to militarize the Rhineland when the Treaty of Versailles forbade it. -
Germany forces a union with Austria
To gain the Austrian lands. -
Britain and France adopt the policy of appeasement
Acknowledging Aggression -
Germany claims the Sudetenland
Germany Claims more territory. -
The Policy of appeasements ends
Great Britain, France pledge to defend Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland against German Aggression. -
Attack on Poland
Hitler attacks Poland, Beginning "Blitzkrieg" (Lighting Warfare) -
France Surrenders
France is taken over and is no longer an allied power and is held by German power. -
Battle of the Britain
The "Blitz" Germany bombs Britain with everything and anything they can. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler's Biggest mistake, Invading the Soviet union -
Battle of Stalingrad
Winter of 1942-1943.
The German's Lost
1,011,500 men
10,290 Artillery guns
675 tanks
1,216 planes The Soviet Army Lost
1,000,500 men
13,541 artillery guns
894 tanks
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Death Marches
1944 & 1945 Nazi's ordered marches over long distances. These marches were to walking and starve these women as they walk to avoid invading armies to march these women to death.
Approximately 250,000-375,000 prisoners dead. -
D-Day
D-Day is when american troops stormed Normandy France on the beaches and overwhelmed German troops. Nearly 450,000 deaths overall. German guns would shoot at the shipment containers even before they opened releasing the men to storm the shore. -
Destruction of Evidence
By 1945, the Nazi's began to destroy concentration camps and death camps, crematoriums as allied troops closed into liberate the prisoners. -
Italy Down
Mussolini and His mistress are hung in Milan. -
Yalta Conference
The allies met to discuss post war Europe and to reestablish Poland borders. (USSR)
Here Russia agreed to join the Pacific war.
Roosevelt thought this would appease Stalin. -
Isolation and the Death of Hitler
Hitler Isolates himself in his bunker, which contained Cyanide and Pistols. Mr. and Mrs. Hitler both Commit suicide
