Dustin+WWII

1: Germany invades Poland ([]) -hitler invaded poland in sept. 1939 -france and britain declared war on germany -after taking over Poland germany attacked France which feel on June 1940

2: Battle of Midway ([]) -June 4-7 1942 -after attacking Pearl Harbor the Japanese took over Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies -was the turning point of the war in the pacific -Japanese planned on canturing Midway to use it as an advance base

3: Battle of Stalingrad ([]) -Germans werent ready for Russias harsh weather -German forces advanced into Russia -over two and a half million Russians were killed, wounded, or captured -june 22, 1941

4: D-Day ([]) -June 6, 1944 -invasion of Normandy, France -attack led by General Dwight Eisenhower -fought through France and Belgium into Germany -Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945

5: Bombing of Hiroshima ([]) -Truman wanted to end the war quickly -dropped by Enola gay -August 6, 1945

6: Holocaust ([]) -began when Hitler came to power in 1933 -ended in 1945 when we defeated the Nazis -six out of the eleven million people killed were Jews -Jews were forced to live in ghettos -from the ghettos they were transported to concentration camps

7: Warshaw Ghetto Uprising ([]) -April 13, 1943 -Jewish resistance held out against the Nazi for 28 days -built bunkers and shelters to protect themselves from German forces -used pistols, few automatic weapons, and homemade grenades -forced the Germans back outside the ghetto wall -led by Mordecai Anielewicz -Germans planned to liquidate the ghetto in three days but the resistance held out for more than a month

8: VE-Day -May 8, 1945 -