September 1, 1939

The Germans brought an army of 1.5 million soldiers, 2,750 tanks, 2,315 aircraft, and 9,000 guns

This began WW2 in Europe

Source - https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/invasion-poland-september-1939

Soldiers had a nine month primary, basic, and advanced training over on Lake Michigan

About 130 aircraft ended up crashing into the Lake

Source - https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196919/flight-training-on-the-eve-of-wwii/#:~:text=Flight%20Training%20Aircraft,both%20basic%20and%20advanced%20training.

The Nanjing Massacre was the Japanese army invaded China's capital city, Nanjing.

Killed 300,000 Chinese soldiers

Killed hundreds of thousands of people, and raped tens of thousands of women

Source - https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/nanjing-massacre

Soviet forces entered Berlin on April 25, 1945

Soviet forces linked up with American forces, attacking Germany.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide April 30, 1945, which soon after Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945

Source - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/german-forces-surrender-to-the-allies#:~:text=German%20armed%20forces%20surrendered%20unconditionally,London%2C%20Moscow%2C%20and%20Paris.

During the air battles between Britain and Germany from June 10 to October 31, 1940, the Royal Air Force and Navy defended Britain against the German Air Force

The Royal Air Force and Navy responded by dropping heavy bomb attacks to defeat the German Air Force

Source -

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline

One of Germany's first and last airborne attack on Greece from May 20 to June 1, 1941

Allied forces with the Germans backed down evacuated and accepted defeat

Source -

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline

Germany's Operation Barbarossa, which was an invasion of the Soviet Union

The Germans were advancing rapidly but were ultimately stopped by the Red Army.

The Germans backed down from to much defeat and retreated

Source -

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline

From August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943 there was a conflict between the Red Army and the Germans when they attacked Stalingrad

It was one of the longest, deadliest battle in the war, with almost 2 million casualties, such as lack of food starving both Russian and German Soldiers

Source -

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline

Anne Frank is a popular girl who was a Jew during WWII, for keeping a diary which ended up being very famous for keeping entries during the Holocaust

She was deported to Auschwitz to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in August of 1944

She died of typhus in early November, 1944, after her sister Margot.

Source -

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

The 6888 was a group of colored women who were stationed in the UK to complete a time sensitive mission of labeling, sorting, and clearing millions of mail and letters

They were ordered to do this mission in a short 6 months, but managed to do it in just 3

They show the hardships of racial and gender based discrimination

Source -

https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/a-different-kind-of-victory-the-6888th-central-postal-directory-battalion/

The Manhattan Project was a group of men in the U.S Government Research Team who made the first atomic bombs

They had many bases in the U.S, such as Hanford Wash, Oak Ridge TN, and its main base was in Los Almos NM

Source -

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

Rosie was working at a shop at a Naval Air Station in CA, when someone snapped a photo of her in a blue jumpsuit, and a red and white polka dotted headband

Her picture was put on a poster to convince and motivate women to join the wartime labor force with the saying “We Can Do It!”

Source -

https://www.history.com/articles/rosie-the-riveter-inspiration

These rats were used against the Germans, particularly in France

These rats were already dead, stuffed with explosives, and sent off to France for agents to plant

Source -

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

These dogs were trained suicide bombers, who were trained to target German tanks and blow them up

Up to 40,000 dogs were trained but most failed due to Nazis just killing the dogs to solve the issue

Source -

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

Medicine was very crucial in wars as many injuries occur all the time, WW2 was a very rapidly growing advancing time for medicine

WW2 led to improvements to blood transfusions, skin graphs, advancing in trauma treatment and antibacterial treatment

Commercial production was also released for penicillin after WW2 started

Source -

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/scientific-and-technological-advances-world-war-ii

The Krummlauf was a curved attachment to a rifle

There were 2 versions of this invention, the 30-degree bend to shoot over obstacles, and the 90-degree bend for aiming to shoot inside armed vehicles

It preformed very badly, with bullets breaking in half or even the whole barrel.

Source -

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

These Concentration and Extermination Camps were made for Jewish, Jehovahs Witnesss, homosexuals, and other ethnic groups

There were many different camps for different things, such as forced labor camps, transit camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and killing sights

The camps served 3 main purposes, to incarcerate “enemies of the state", murder individuals and groups, and to exploit forced labor

Source -

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps

Ghettos were neighborhoods for the Jews of Europe, usually isolated and miserable

These ghettos were made to separate Jews from the rest of Europe

Jews were taken from Jewish and non-Jewish areas and forced to be in these ghettos

Source -

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos

The Armed Jewish Resistance located in Eastern Europe fought in the ghettos and behind forests in the front-lines

They were very unarmed and under trained due to lack of resources, but despite the lack of support they still fought Germans

Source -

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/armed-jewish-resistance-partisans

President Franklin D. Roosevelt made an executive order that was U.S policy that people of Japanese decent would be put in isolated camps from 1942-1945

This act is seen as one of the most atrocious acts as it totally violates American civil rights

In these camps they were treated very harshly, limited resources, and under surveillance

Sources -

https://www.history.com/articles/japanese-american-relocation and Google

Nazi propaganda was successfully spread through books, music, films, press, etc

Hitlers main goal was to provoke war and get people to be on his side

Source -

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda

Radio broadcasts were made by Winston Churchill in 1941 to spread word to destroy enemy morale

By 1945 the British had made more than 40 clandestine pseudo-German radio stations using powerful American transmitters.

Source -

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

Americans were trying not to deal with a distant war, while the O.W.I was trying to spread this propaganda

The O.W.I documented home front life and culture

The propaganda was just trying to show the disagreement with the Nazis, and told to have major safety precautions

Source -

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/FX7RMB/marks-the-spot-world-war-ii-us-propaganda-poster-FX7RMB.jpg and Google

In the summer of 1936 Hitler went to Antarctica to find a substitute for fat, as Germans ate a lot of margarine

A lot of the expeditions science was lost during war, or was kept under the radar until it was publishes

Source -

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