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Fall Weiss
The attack on Poland started at 04.45 hours when blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the Germans and the country was occupied. The reason for the attack was that the Polish were killing Germans in that country.
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Fall Rot
On June 10 the French declared Paris an open city. On June 14 it fell to the Germans. Churchill had attended a meeting on June 13 and proposed a union between Britain and France so that France could remain in the war but this was rejected by the French government. On June 16 French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigned to be replaced by Marshal Philippe Pétain, who immediately announced his intention to seek an armistice
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Luftschlacht um England
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, 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.
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Miete leasen
The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act -
Operation Barbarossa
It was the Axis attack in Soviet Russia. It was their attempt to attack because of communism. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Operation Z
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. On December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his “Infamy Speech” to American citizens, informing them that this occurred despite the fact that the US was in the midst of talks to keep peace with Japan. That same day, with congressional approval, America entered into World War II http://www.historynet.com/pearl-harbor -
America Declares War
The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany.Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor answered that question. So at 3:30 p.m. (Berlin time) on December 11, the German charge d’affaires in Washington handed American Secretary of State Cordell Hull a copy of the declaration of war.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march -
Battle of Midway
American intelligence breakthrough–the solving of the Japanese fleet codes–enabled Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to understand the exact Japanese plans.The Americans sank four fleet carriers–the entire strength of the task force–Akagi,Kaga,Soryu, and Hiryu, with 322 aircraft and over five thousand sailors.The Japanese also lost the heavy cruiser Mikuma.American losses included 147.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
From April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Liberation of Auschwitz
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered. https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/liberation-of-auschwitz -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
Atomic Bombs
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
Battle of The Buldge
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
