Turning Points of WWII by Lillian Hall https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m en-us 2023-01-04 12:56:55 UTC 2025-10-27 23:00:31 UTC hello@padlet.com December 7, 1941 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433484695 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Sensing weakness, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later.]]> 2023-01-04 13:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433484695 Aug 6, 1945 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433487147 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.]]> 2023-01-04 13:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433487147 Aug 9, 1945 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433488817 On August 9, 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.]]> 2023-01-04 13:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433488817 December 8, 1941 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433490451 U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.]]> 2023-01-04 13:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433490451 January 30, 1933 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433492605 Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and later assumes dictatorial powers. German rearmament takes off.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433492605 September 1, 1939 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433493513 Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433493513 September 17, 1939 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433494365 Working in concert with Hitler, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders the invasion of Poland, securing a share of Polish territory.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433494365 September 27, 1939 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433495201 Warsaw surrenders to German troops. Poland holds out for another 9 days before capitulating.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433495201 December 13, 1939 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433496365 British cruisers defeat a German pocket battleship at the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of World War II.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433496365 April 8, 1940 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433497390 Germany invades Norway, ending a 6-month period of limited land operations called the “Phony War.”


]]> 2023-01-04 13:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433497390 May 10, 1940 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433498415 Winston Churchill replaces Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister. The same day, Germany invades Belgium.


]]> 2023-01-04 13:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433498415 June 14, 1940 23lhall2 https://padlet.com/23lhall2/g9nznx9ark3fm23m/wish/2433499343 Paris falls to German forces. France capitulates 11 days later.


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