WWII by Elianna

Treaty of Versailles

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 03:39:19 UTC

The treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of WWI and it was what caused WWII. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers,it was signed in June 28,1919 which was exactly after Franz Ferdinand was mudered

Hitlers lighting war

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 04:11:33 UTC

Germany tried avoiding a long war it overran Europe by the plan of "Blitzkreig" were they use offensive weapons like (tanks,planes,and artillery) Germany successfully used it against Poland on September 1939

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 04:28:12 UTC

The military and political alliance between Germany and Italy,formailized by the Berlin agreement of a October 25 1936, they all ruled by totalirism,single party dictorship and state control of the economy.

D-Day

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 04:34:49 UTC

On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France,

VE-Day

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 04:37:55 UTC

Victory in Europe was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

The Holocaust

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 04:50:04 UTC

Was a genocide in which approximately 6 million Jews were killed by Hitler from 1941->1945,and of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the holocaust approximately two-thirds were killed.

Pearl Harbor

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 05:03:27 UTC

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 05:11:36 UTC

The US dropped atomic bombs on these Japanese cities in August 1945,during the first stage of WWII and the 2 bombings killed at least 129,000 people.

The Battle of britain

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 05:24:56 UTC

After France became occupied Britain was all alone against the Axis Powers.Hitler realized that was a perfect time to launch an invasion in Britain in June 1940.german bombers flew across and dropped bombs on London and other large cities. The British (RAF) planes defeated the German Air Force and hitler was forced to cancel.

Battle of Midway

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 20:05:29 UTC

After the Pearl Harbor attack the US declared war on Japan.Later on Germany and Italy declared war on the US on December 11 1941,the Japanese won a string of victories over the US for the next 6 months.However in June 1942 the US defeated the Japanese navy in the battle of Midway,after the victory the US navy was able to push the Japanese back.

Operation Barbarossa

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 20:15:19 UTC

It was the code name for the Nazi Germany invasion during the Soviet Union WWI,in June 1941,Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia.Many Russian cities fell to Germany but Hitler didnt think it would last into winterMany erman soldiers froze to death because they didnt have any winter clothing

The Phony war

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 20:29:50 UTC

It was a eight-month period at the start of WWII between the declaration by the Western Allies and the Nazi Germany on September 3 1939 just after the invasion of Poland and the German Blitzkreig

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 20:37:45 UTC

El Alamein

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-04 20:39:08 UTC

During the early part of the War the Axis Powers had a number of wins in British controlled North Africa.The Axis powers later on wanted to capture the important Suez Canal which would give them access to oil in the Middle East.However the battle was won won by the Allies,the Germans didnt take the Suez canal or the oil. This had left their tanks and trucks short on fuel and had prevented them from taking North africa

The Battle of Dunkirk

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-07 06:47:58 UTC

This war was between the Allies and Germany and it was the defense and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May - June 4 1940, France fights back with the help of British troops but France falls in 1940 and surrender

Embargo

iliana_alchawi — 2015-12-07 06:54:19 UTC

On this day in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.On July 24, Tokyo decided to strengthen its position in terms of its invasion of China by moving through Southeast Asia. Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil. Japan’s oil reserves were only sufficient to last three years, and only half that time if it went to war and consumed fuel at a more frenzied pace.