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Kristallnacht
When Nazi storm troopers looted and destroyed Jewish homes, and synagauges. Many people were arrested. -
Wannsee Conference
The conference in Germany concerning the plan to murder European Jews. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews -
Casablanca Conference
The plan of European strategy during WW2. The conference's Casablanca Declaration called for the Allies to seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943 and was among the largest on the Eastern Front, and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. -
Italy declares war on Germany
the government of Italy declares war on its former Axis partner Germany and joins the battle on the side of the Allies. -
Anzio Invasion
troops of the Fifth Army swarmed ashore on a fifteen-mile stretch of Italian beach near the prewar resort towns of Anzio and Nettuno. The landings were carried out so flawlessly and German resistance was so light that British and American units gained their first day's objectives by noon, moving three to four miles inland by nightfall. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings. A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. -
Liberation of Paris
The Liberation of Paris took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on the 25 of August 1944 and is accounted as the last battle in the Campaign for Normandy and the transitional conclusion of the Allied invasion breakout in Operation Overlord into a broad-fronted general offensive. -
Battle of the Bulge
A WORLD WAR 2 battle in which German forces launched a final counter attack in the west. -
Yalta Conference
The wartime meeting of the heads of the government. The US, UK, and the Soviet Union were to discuss European postwar reorganization -
V-E Day
The date when World War 2 allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Hitlers Third Reich. -
Nuremburg Trials
Trials that put former Nazi leaders in jail against peace, humanity and war.
