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Nazis take the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was annexed by Germany. The Sudetenland was causing trouble and the Czechoslovakian government ceded the region to Germany to avoid a war.
The outcome was that Sudetenland was put under German control. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/571568/Sudetenland -
Ribbentrop/Motolov Pact
Signed on August 23, 1939.It stated that everyone who signed it wouldn’t fight and stay neutral, they would exchange information and solves disputes peacefully. Hitler was afraid that if he attacked Poland France and Britain would go after Germany like the treaty said so he first needed guarantee Soviet Union neutrality before he could attack Poland.Outcome was that the Baltic States had to sign mutual assistance pacts with the USSR. http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?li -
Germany's invasion of Poland
It happened on September 1, 1939.The Polish army was defeated in only a few weeks.This caused Britain and France to declare wasr on Germany. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17.The outcome was that World War II Started. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070 -
German Blitzkrieg
• It was an attack Hitler designed to be based on speed co-ordination and movement. They attacked one area and moved on to the next.
Hitler wanted to weaken Poland, Western Europe, and their allies. The outcome was that it devastated Poland, Europe, and their allies because they were pushed back to the Dunkirk beaches. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/blitzkrieg.htm -
Battle of Britain
It happened because Hitler wanted to win air superiority over Britain and the English channels by defeating the British air force and destroying the air craft industry. It was a battle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air force. It was the first battle fought completely in the air. The outcome was that Hitler postponed the invasion of Britain but he eventually changed his tactics and it turned into an indiscriminate bombing.
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Nazis take the Soviet Union
Hitler surprised the Soviet Union by attacking them after he signed a treaty that he wouldn’t attack them. He wanted to take over the resources they had but the civilians who lived there started to burn the resources that could possibly help the German army.Hitler wanted to control the soviet wheat and oil fields.Germany ended up surrendering and it was a big defeat for the Germans in the War. http://www.english-online.at/history/world-war-2/operation-barbarossa-and-the-battle-of-stalingrad.htm -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed the United States in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they knew the United States were leaning towards joining the war and they thought that they would go into a big battle with the U.S. if they did join, so they attacked.The outcome of this was that the United States joined World War II.
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Wannsee Conference
• The Nazis meet up to figure out what the final solution was to the Jewish question.
This happened because the Nazis were trying to figure out a way to get rid of all the Jews in Europe.The outcome was that the Nazis brought in gas chambers to kill the Jewish people who didn’t die in the concentration camps. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-wannsee-conference -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans bombed the Volga River and then Stalingrad. When the Germans went to take Stalingrad the Soviet Union soldiers hid all over the place attacking the German soldiers.It happened because the German air force bombed the Soviet Union.The outcome was that Germany surrendered because they ran out of food and it was so cold. http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_stalingrad.php -
Operation Gomorrah
It was the name for the attacks done by the royal air force on Hamburg in July. It was also done by RAF Bomber Command and the United States Army Air force.They did it to create an around the clock bombing mission on the Germans.After it was over it killed about 50,000 people and 1 million Germans homeless. http://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Operation_Gomorrah -
Allied invasion of Africa
The United States and its allies invaded North Africa together.They invaded North Africa because the German allies the Vichy French were there.The outcome was that the Vichy French surrendered because Hitler ordered his army to take Southern France after he found out they were being defeated. http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/operation-torch-the-allied-invasion-of-north-africa.asp -
D-day
It was the invasion of Normandy by Canada, France, Britain, and the United States. They used a huge force of 150,000 Soldiers.They invaded Normandy because Germany invaded France and tried to take over Europe. The Allied forces ended up pushing the Germans out of France. http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/d-day_invasion_of_normandy.php -
Battle of the Bulge
It was a battle fought as Germany’s last attempt to drive the Allied forces out of Europe. Germany broke the line of American troops and had German spies who spoke English and pretend to be U.S. soldiers.The reason why it happened was because Germany was trying to drive the allied forces out of Europe.The allies won the war which meant that is was only a matter of time before the war was over and Germany would lose. -
Liberation of the Concentration Camps
As troops moved across Europe they found many concentration camps and freed the prisoners who were still alive. Soviet forces, the United States, and the British all liberated the camps.It happened because when the allied forces were moving along Europe they saw camps that had proof of mass murder and when they found the camps they saved the prisoners. The outcome was that what the Nazis had done in the camps throughout the whole war was finally made public.
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VE Day
VE Day announced the end of the war in Europe. German General Jodi signed the unconditional surrender that ended the war.They ended the war because the allied forces and a lot of soldiers but Germany had few left and the allied forces had more resources than the Nazis.The outcome was that the war ended.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ve_day.htm
