My bold padlet by Ezra Kyiamah

Austria

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:18:50 UTC

Austrians also served loyally as soldiers from Germany proper and were just as responsible for Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front.

Czechoslovakia

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:21:32 UTC

Czechoslovakia served Hitler for nearly seven years as a reliable source for industrial goods.

Ethiopia

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:22:59 UTC

Ethiopia was an Italian colony in 1940 and therefore had no 'strength' of it's own so to say. The Allied East African campaign targeted Ethiopia (as well as Italian Somaliland) and both were occupied early in WWII.

Poland

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:23:33 UTC

In World War II, the Polish armed forces were the fourth largest Allied forces in Europe, after those of the Soviet Union, United States, and Britain. Poles made substantial contributions to the Allied effort throughout the war, fighting on land, sea, and in the air.

Canton de Bouzonville, France

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:25:46 UTC

The Maginot Line was built to fulfill several purposes: To prevent a German surprise attack. To deter a cross-border assault. To protect Alsace and Lorraine

Vichy, France

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:26:23 UTC

Despite heavy pressure, the Vichy government never joined the Axis powers and even remained formally at war with Germany. In practice, however, Vichy France became a collaborationist regime. Germany kept two million French prisoners-of-war and imposed forced labour (service du travail obligatoire) on young Frenchmen.

Paris, France

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:27:03 UTC

The French resistance in Paris, which culminated in the liberation of Paris in the June of 1944 led to the capturing of the police headquarters and government infrastructures by the Allied forces (Smith, 2020).

Dunkirk, France

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:27:29 UTC

Operation Dynamo, 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. The evacuation, sometimes referred to as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was a big boost for British morale.

London, UK

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:28:19 UTC

London was central to the British war effort. It was the favourite target of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) in 1940, and in 1944-45 the target of the V-1 cruise missile, the V-2 rocket, and the unsuccessful V-3 "London gun".

Cairo, Egypt

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:29:52 UTC

The Cairo Conference

Leningrad Oblast, Russia

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:31:00 UTC

Hitler had long considered Leningrad a key objective in the invasion. It served as the home base of Russia's Baltic Fleet, and its more than 600 factories made it second only to Moscow in industrial output.S

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:32:25 UTC

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ended the debate over American intervention in both the Pacific and European theaters of World War II. The day after the attack, Congress declared war on Imperial Japan with only a single dissenting vote.

El Alamein, Egypt

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:35:19 UTC

Fought near the western frontier of Egypt between 23 October and 4 November 1942, El Alamein was the climax and turning point of the North African campaign in the Second World War (1939-45). The Axis army of Italy and Germany suffered a decisive defeat by the British Eighth Army.

Stalingrad, Russia

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:36:16 UTC

Battle of Stalingrad - Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.

Coral Sea

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:37:07 UTC

Battle of Coral Sea - It was the world's first carrier-vs. -carrier battle, and the first naval battle in which neither side's ships sighted the others. This in itself marked the coming of a new mode of naval warfare that had been predicted by airpower advocates as much as a decade prior.

Midway

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:40:19 UTC

Battle of Midway - This critical US victory stopped the growth of Japan in the Pacific and put the United States in a position to begin shrinking the Japanese empire through a years-long series of island-hopping invasions and several even larger naval battles.

Normandy, France

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:40:53 UTC

'D-Day' – Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation.

Belgium

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:41:48 UTC

Support from far right political factions and sections of the Belgian population allowed the German army to recruit two divisions of the Waffen-SS from Belgium and also facilitated the Nazi persecution of Belgian Jews in which nearly 25,000 were killed.

Nagasaki, Japan

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:43:19 UTC

US dropped bomb on Nagasaki which led to the end of WWII

Hiroshima, Japan

ekyiamah26 — 2024-03-19 12:48:03 UTC

US dropped bomb on Hiroshima which led to the end of WWII