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August 6, 1945

A nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan had over 200,000 people died in this event

Japan refused to surrender and as a last act Harry Truman ordered the dropping of Fat Man

https://www.britannica.com/question/Why-did-the-atomic-bombings-of-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-happen#:~:text=It%20is%20possible%20that%20U.S.,by%20displaying%20American%20military%20power

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Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

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June 28, 1919

Peace document signed by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany

Germany was blamed for all the events of WWI and was forced to give up many rights

https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Versailles-1919

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December 1937 - January 1938

It was a mass killing and ravaging committed by the Japanese Soldiers toward the Chinese citizens

Deaths between 100,000 to 300,000

https://www.britannica.com/event/Nanjing-Massacre

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August 9, 1945

Harry Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima, over 140,000 people died fro the event

Japan refused to surrender so Harry Truman ordered the bombing

https://www.britannica.com/event/atomic-bombings-of-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki

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June 6, 1944 - July 9, 1944

US, British, and Canadian forces all landed in Normandy to invade

By the end, all of northern France was liberated

https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion

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September 1, 1939

Over 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland, Over 66,000 Polish soldiers were killed, 133,700 wounded, and 675,000 captured

Hitler considered the Polish people inferior and wanted to take back the land

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/24/the-start-of-the-second-world-war-germany-invades-poland/#:~:text=S%C4%99p%C3%B3lno%20Kraje%C5%84skie%20(Poland)%2C%201%20September%201939.&text=Hitler%20had%20attacked%20Poland%20because,Jewish%20and%20non%2DJewish%20Poles.

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PIBBLE!!!!

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December 7, 1941

Hundreds of Japansese planes surprise attacked the US navy base

More than 20 ships and 300 planes were attacked and more than 2,400 people were killed

https://www.history.com/articles/pearl-harbor

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1941

The first African American flying unit in the U.S. military

There were 992 pilots, and they flew 1,578 missions

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuskegee-Airmen

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July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943

Over 1.7 to 2 million soldiers and civilians died during the battle

Hitler's sought to control the city of Stalingrad for it's importance

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad

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July 16, 1945

The bomb generated an explosive power equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT

Created as part of the Manhattan Project and happened at the Trinity site.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project

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April 1, 1945 until June 22, 1945

More than 1,600 ships and 350,000 naval personnel would assemble to form the largest amphibious assault force of World War 2. there has been an estimated count of 240,000 deaths

The island was chosen as a base for launching an invasion on Japan and for blockading the country

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Okinawa

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July 10 to October 31, 1940

23,002 British civilians were killed and 32,138 wounded

Hitler planned to invade Britain, but first needed to gain air superiority over the English Channel and destroy the Royal Air Force to pave the way for his invasion

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Britain-European-history-1940

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April 1925 - 1945

An elite corps and personal bodyguard of Adolf Hitler

By 1939 the SS, now numbering about 250,000 men

https://www.britannica.com/topic/SS

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18 December, 1878 - 5 March, 1953

The leader of the USSR, he was part of the Allies and the Axis

helped implement Communism into the USSR

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Stalin

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1942-1945

The Tuskegee Airmen trained in the Great Lakes after graduation

Nearly 200 planes crashed into the Great Lakes during WW2

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18aviatorsdown/history.html

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1942-1946

The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps

The U.S. War Department suspected that Japanese Americans might act as saboteurs

https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment

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1942

Dr. Lytle S. Adams was to attach incendiary devices to bats and drop the winged weapons from airplanes

Adams swore that bat bombs would have been more destructive than the atom bombs

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

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May 8, 1884 - Dec 26, 1972

The 33rd President of America

Truman Green lit the launching of the atomic bombs

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/trivia/biographical-sketch-harry-truman

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April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany

He has killed over 6 million Jewish people

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler

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1941

OE agents in London procured 100 dead rats and stuffed them with plastic explosives and shipped them off to agents in German-occupied France

The idea was that unsuspecting German soldiers would pick up the dead rats and chuck them into the boilers, triggering massive explosions

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

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September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

Holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Elie was 15 when he was captured by the Nazis and sent away to a concentration camp in Poland

He is most famous for his book, Night, which describes his experiences in the Holocaust

TCi Textbook, Pages 426 - 427

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1940 - Jan 27, 1945

Over 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz

people primarily arrived in Auschwitz by train

The people died from various methods but the most known method was the gas chambers

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/

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1935 - 1945s

a top secret Japanese human experimentation unit Located in Harbin, China

They are known for committing horrific acts against humanity but they were pardoned because they contribution a lot for medical research and the such

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June 12, 1929 - 1945

Her family went into hiding on July 6, 1942

She started writing a diary shortly after her 13th birthday

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/

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Anne's first years

Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. Anne's sister Margot was three years her senior. Unemployment was high and poverty was severe in Germany, and it was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his party were gaining more and more supporters. Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for the problems in the country. He took advantage of the rampant antisemitic sentiments in Germany. The hatred of Jews and the poor economic situation made Anne's parents, Otto and Edith Frank, decide to move to Amsterdam. There, Otto founded a company that traded in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam.

Nazi Germany invades the Netherlands

Before long, Anne felt right at home in the Netherlands. She learned the language, made new friends and went to a Dutch school near her home. Her father worked hard to get his business off the ground, but it was not easy. Otto also tried to set up a company in England, but the plan fell through. Things looked up when he started selling herbs and spices in addition to the pectin.

On 1 September 1939, when Anne was 10 years old, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and so the Second World War began. Not long after, on 10 May 1940, the Nazis also invaded the Netherlands. Five days later, the Dutch army surrendered. Slowly but surely, the Nazis introduced more and more laws and regulations that made the lives of Jews more difficult. For instance, Jews could no longer visit parks, cinemas, or non-Jewish shops. The rules meant that more and more places became off-limits to Anne. Her father lost his company, since Jews were no longer allowed to run their own businesses. All Jewish children, including Anne, had to go to separate Jewish schools.

Anne has to go into hiding in the Secret Annex

The Nazis took things further, one step at the time. Jews had to start wearing a Star of David on their clothes and there were rumours that all Jews would have to leave the Netherlands. When Margot received a call-up to report for a so-called 'labour camp' in Nazi Germany on 5 July 1942, her parents were suspicious. They did not believe the call-up was about work and decided to go into hiding the next day in order to escape persecution.

In the spring of 1942, Anne's father had started furnishing a hiding place in the annex of his business premises at Prinsengracht 263. He received help from his former colleagues. Before long, they were joined by four more people. The hiding place was cramped. Anne had to keep very quiet and was often afraid.

Anne keeps a diary

On her thirteenth birthday, just before they went into hiding, Anne was presented with a diary. During the two years in hiding, Anne wrote about events in the Secret Annex, but also about her feelings and thoughts. In addition, she wrote short stories, started on a novel and copied passages from the books she read in her Book of Beautiful Sentences. Writing helped her pass the time.

When the Minister of Education of the Dutch government in England made an appeal on Radio Orange to hold on to war diaries and documents, Anne was inspired to rewrite her individual diaries into one running story, titled Het Achterhuis ( The Secret Annex).

The hiding place is discovered

Anne started rewriting her diary, but before she was done, she and the other people in hiding were discovered and arrested by police officers on 4 August 1944. The police also arrested two of the helpers. To this day, we do not know the reason for the police raid.

Despite the raid, part of Anne's writing was preserved: two other helpers took the documents before the Secret Annex was emptied by order of the Nazis.

Anne is deported to Auschwitz

Via the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst (the German security police), a prison in Amsterdam, and the Westerbork transit camp, the people from the Secret Annex were put on transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. The train journey took three days, during which Anne and over a thousand others were packed closely together in cattle wagons. There was little food and water and only a barrel for a toilet.

Upon arrival at Auschwitz, Nazi doctors checked to see who would and who would not be able to do heavy forced labour. Around 350 people from Anne's transport were immediately taken to the gas chambers and murdered. Anne, Margot and their mother were sent to the labour camp for women. Otto ended up in a camp for men.

Anne dies from exhaustion in Bergen-Belsen

In early November 1944, Anne was put on transport again. She was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with Margot. Their parents stayed behind in Auschwitz. The conditions in Bergen-Belsen were horrible too. There was a lack of food, it was cold, wet and there were contagious diseases. Anne and Margot contracted typhus. In February 1945 they both died owing to its effects, Margot first, Anne shortly afterwards.

Anne's father Otto was the only one of the people from the Secret Annex to survive the war. He was liberated from Auschwitz by the Russians and during his long journey back to the Netherlands he learned that his wife Edith had died. Once in the Netherlands, he heard that Anne and Margot were no longer alive either.

Anne's diary becomes world famous

Anne's writing made a deep impression on Otto. He read that Anne had wanted to become a writer or a journalist and that she had intended to publish her stories about life in the Secret Annex. Friends convinced Otto to publish the diary and in June 1947, 3,000 copies of Het Achterhuis ( The Secret Annex) were printed.

And that was not all: the book was later translated into around 70 languages and adapted for stage and screen. People all over the world were introduced to Anne's story and in 1960 the hiding place became a museum: the Anne Frank House. Until his death in 1980, Otto remained closely involved with the Anne Frank House and the museum: he hoped that readers of the diary would become aware of the dangers of discrimination, racism, and hatred of Jews.

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The life of Anne Frank in brief. Watch the video and read more about her diary and her life in hiding in the Secret Annex.

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1938-39

German whaling ships were operating far from home, so the idea of establishing an Antarctic base seemed like a good idea

The mountainous region had never been explored and the German scientists named it “Neu-Schwabenland” after the ship

https://www.history.com/articles/hitler-nazi-secret-expedition-antarctica-whale-oil

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In preparation for war, Hitler wanted to find substitutes for fat-based products—including margarine—in case imported sources were cut off.

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1930s - 1941

The Gustav cannon is know for being the largest and heaviest mobile artillery cannon ever conceived

it was primarily used during the siege of Sevastopol and used over 30,000 pounds of artillery ammunition the weapon alone is over 1,350 tons

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-nazi-schwerer-gustav-rail-gun-big-bang-for-the-buck-or-small-spark-for-the-reichsmark/

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1943

During World War II, German propaganda emphasized the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied troops, who were depicted as cowards and butchers or brave but misguided

British radio broadcasting was made to disseminate propaganda that would damage enemy morale

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-propaganda/#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%20German,attacked%20without%20fear%20of%20death.

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The Man Behind Hitler | Article

USHMM, Courtesy of Library of Congress

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in his diary. Adolph Hitler agreed. Following the Nazis' rise to power in 1933, he established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with Goebbels as its head. Goebbels promoted the Nazi message through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, and the press, and censored all opposition. Goebbels worked to inflame the anger of Germans over their defeat in World War I and emphasized German cultural and military achievements to boost national pride. He played an important role in creating an atmosphere in Germany that made it possible for the Nazis to commit terrible atrocities against Jews and other minorities.

War and Propaganda
During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided. Russian troops were presented as dehumanized beasts and killers who attacked without fear of death. After the Nazi loss at Stalingrad in February 1943, Goebbels admitted recent losses and argued for total war in his famous Sportpalast speech. While the new strategy prolonged the war, Goebbels recognized that his efforts were failing. A month before his suicide in Berlin, he took note of the Allied propaganda being directed back at him. "Enemy propaganda is beginning to have an uncomfortably noticeable effect on the German people. Anglo-American leaflets are now no longer carelessly thrown aside but are read attentively; British broadcasts have a grateful audience."

British Propaganda
The radio broadcasts were the handiwork of the British Political Warfare Executive (P.W.E.), created by Winston Churchill in 1941 to disseminate propaganda that would damage enemy morale. The British Broadcasting Company's foreign language broadcasts became a key element in the Allied campaign for German loyalties. By 1945 the British had established more than 40 clandestine pseudo-German radio stations using powerful American transmitters. The P.W.E. also delivered subversive messages to the German people through so-called black propaganda, printed postcards and leaflets dropped behind enemy lines. Though a product of Hollywood, William Wyler's award-winning Mrs. Miniver (1942) portrayed the struggle on the British home front and glorified Britain's resolve to fight. The film ended with a rousing sermon in a bombed-out church: "This is the people's war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right." United States President Franklin Roosevelt found the speech so inspiring that he had it printed and airdropped over the European front.

American Propaganda
The Office of War Information (O.W.I.) was the source of such propaganda in the U.S. In 1941 most Americans, especially those who remembered World War I, were still isolationist, believing that their country should rebuild following the Great Depression, not fight a distant war. After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, most were convinced to support the war, but Roosevelt created the O.W.I. in 1942 to boost wartime production at home and undermine enemy morale in Europe, Asia, and Africa. OWI photographers documented aspects of homefront life and culture such as women in the workforce, and dealt with a wide array of morale issues such as the question of using Japanese Americans as soldiers, and "subversive activities" like the Los Angeles zoot suit riots.

Highly Visible Messages
Other propaganda came in the form of posters, movies, and even cartoons. Inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present in schools, factories, and store windows, posters helped to mobilize Americans to war. A representative poster encouraged Americans to "Stop this Monster that Stops at Nothing. PRODUCE to the Limit!" It depicted a monster with two heads, one Nazi, one Japanese, clutching the Statue of Liberty in one hand and fending off American advances with the other. Nearby a hand holds a wrench with the inscription "production" -- the key to winning the war.

Movies and Cartoons
While most propaganda aimed to boost patriotism, some took on racist overtones. Director Frank Capra produced seven films called Why We Fight, which portrayed Germany, Italy and Japan as nations of inhuman murderers. As World War II progressed, the O.W.I. had a hand in Hollywood, which churned out patriotic films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney, Pin-Up Girl (1944) with Betty Grable as a USO entertainer, and Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Gene Kelly as a dancing sailor. Even cartoon characters got into the act. Warner Brothers sent Popeye and Bugs Bunny to fight the Japanese, while Disney released a short showing Donald Duck incapacitating Hitler with a ripe tomato. The war, movies and cartoons did their part to keep Americans focused on the war effort, even as they were being entertained. The Allied forces fought long and hard against the Nazis in the air and on the ground, but also with the powerful tool of propaganda.

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The Man Behind Hitler | Article "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in his diary. Adolph Hitler agreed.

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August, 1939 - 1946

code breakers helped decipher secret messages from the axis

Marian Rejewski is

A Polish code breaker who worked on recreating the German Enigma cipher machine

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-women-codebreakers-of-world-war-ii#:~:text=Codebreakers%20work%20on%20%22Purple%22%20machines,messages%20during%20World%20War%20II.&text=Frances%20Steen%20was%20one%20of,the%20attack%20on%20Pearl%20Harbor.