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Germany Invaded Poland
1-The move was not popular with Germans who supported Hitler
2-Polish army was defeated within weeks of the Invasion -
Germany Invades France
1-This event began at 8pm 2-Also known as the Fall of France -
Germany Bombed London
1-They bombed Portsmouth,Bristol, and etc.
2-Some of the German bombs did fall on their intended target of the docks, but many fell on the residential areas around them. Substantial parts of East and South-East London were devastated, 430 civilians were killed and 1600 seriously injured. -
Lend Lease
1-Provided that the president could ship weapons,food,or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted US defense
2-It allowed thr transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain -
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
1-Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
2- The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating -
US Declares War
1-President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
2-On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. -
Germany Declared War on US
US policy (as the US bankrolled WW1 and was not getting repaid as promised), the US would not sell weapons to Europe unless they were paid cash and picked up by that nations freighters in a US harbour (cash and carry). However, for the UK exceptions were made and thus, come 1940, the UK was increasingly dependent on supplies, arms and munitions from the US. -
Battle of Midway
During the Battle of Midway they lost four. Four out of Six. Most of the veteran highly skilled ship crew perished, including their captains. How is that not a disaster? (Most of the air crew survived but an aircraft carrier is a ship. It won’t run without good well trained ship crew.) -
Battle of Staligrad
The Russians were fighting to protect their homeground. They were used to it, although not always as stylishly dressed. The Nazis were invading because they intended to kill every Russian alive because of Hitler’s theory of racial superiority.
The battle dragged out so long that the Russians ate only tiny amounts each day, usually soggy grain products, but also ate their pets and cannibalized orphans towards the end of the battle. -
D-Day
American troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history. More than 160,000 Allied troops -- about half of them Americans -- invaded Western Europe, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved to be a turning point in World War II -
US Bombed Japan
Three days later a second atomic bomb (Fat Man) was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. These were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war.
