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invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland is when Germany invaded Poland. It marked at the beginning of the War. -
D-Day
Some 156,000 American,British and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches of Normandy, France -
Japanese aggression
Beginning in the 1930s, Japan aggressively expanded the territories under its influence, taking over parts of China, invading territories claimed by the Soviet Union, and fighting across the Pacific during World War II. -
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Hitler's Control
Nazi Germany is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party (NSDAP) controlled the country through a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state that controlled nearly all aspects of life via the Gleichschaltung legal process. -
Hitler
Hitler took over Germany -
The Anschluss
Germany taking over Austria -
Neutrality Act of 1939
After a debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a Neutrality Act was passed. The act helped the embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of "cash-of-carry." -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic bomb during World War II. -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis -
Fall of France
There we two operations but the first one was Case Yellow or Fall Gelb and is when the armored units of Germany cut off allied units which had advanced into the country of Belgium at the Ardennes. -
Battle of Britain
the Battle of Britain ended when Germany's Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain's air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population -
Pearl harbor
Pearl harbor is the main reason why the World War 2 started. US attacked Japanese by surprise in 1941 -
Pearl Harbor
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest argument of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945, during World War II. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Bataan Death March
Beginning in the 1930s, Japan aggressively expanded the territories under its influence, taking over parts of China, invading territories claimed by the Soviet Union, and fighting across the Pacific during World War II. -
V-E Day
Marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, held from 4 to 11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Cold War
The United States was the only country with nuclear weaponry in the years immediately following World War II. The Soviets initially lacked the knowledge and raw materials to build nuclear warheads.
