https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap en-us 2023-03-16 18:08:45 UTC 2023-03-21 18:10:55 UTC hello@padlet.com grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519825577 Nazi Germany annexed Austria in an event called the Anschuss in 1939. This broke the treaty of Versailles & showed Hitler's ambition to unite German speaking people.]]> 2023-03-16 18:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519825577 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519830432 Hitler invaded the entirety of Czechoslovakia after breaking a treaty with Britain. The country proivided many resources for 7 years during the war.]]> 2023-03-16 18:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519830432 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519833419 Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Ethiopia then joined the British for resistance groups against Italy.]]> 2023-03-16 18:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519833419 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519842609 Hitler invaded Poland on 1939. They lost over 5 million citizens as a result. ]]> 2023-03-16 18:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519842609 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519844337 An array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s.]]> 2023-03-16 18:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519844337 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519846076 France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II.

]]> 2023-03-16 18:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519846076 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519849062 Germany invaded Paris and took control of it in 1940.]]> 2023-03-16 18:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519849062 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519851190 The evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940.]]> 2023-03-16 18:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519851190 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519853202 London was central to the British war effort. It was the favorite target of the Luftwaffe]]> 2023-03-16 18:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519853202 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519854394 Despite the fact that Egypt did not officially declare war on Germany, the Egyptian state supported the British. The British were pushed back to Cairo by the Germans.]]> 2023-03-16 18:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519854394 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519856258 Hitler had long considered Leningrad a key objective in the invasion. It served as the home base of Russia's Baltic Fleet.]]> 2023-03-16 18:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519856258 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519858351 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This led to the US declaring war on Japan.]]> 2023-03-16 18:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2519858351 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525865380 El Alamein was the first clear-cut and irreversible victory inflicted by the British Army upon the Axis. Coming after years of frustrating setbacks, this was a boost to British morale.]]> 2023-03-21 18:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525865380 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525866336 Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. ]]> 2023-03-21 18:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525866336 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525867440 Often overshadowed by the Battle of Midway, the hard-fought carrier naval battle in May 1942 in the waters of the Coral Sea north of Australia marked the end of the phase of Japanese triumphs in the Pacific War and proved to be of strategic significance.]]> 2023-03-21 18:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525867440 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525869029 The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military]]> 2023-03-21 18:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525869029 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525869669 The Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis. A significant psychological blow, it also prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his Eastern Front against the advancing Soviets.]]> 2023-03-21 18:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525869669 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525870280 Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940.]]> 2023-03-21 18:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525870280 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525871111 On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.]]> 2023-03-21 18:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525871111 grussosimpson251_1 https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525871793 In the early 20th century the city became a major shipbuilding centre; it was this industry that led to Nagasaki's being chosen as a target for the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the United States in World War II.]]> 2023-03-21 18:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/grussosimpson251_1/9u8t3fm7h1a8bpap/wish/2525871793