Battle of Britain, July 10 to October 31, 1940

Air campaign over england

Britain vs Germany

British victory due to defense and German errors

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-Britain-July-10-to-October-31-1940

16 April - 2 May 1945

Defeat Germany and force and unconditional surrender to end the war

Hitler comitted suicied on April 30

Berlin surrendered on May 2

https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/exhibits/world-war-ii/battle-for-berlin/

july 16, 1945

A plutoninm device was tester

The code name for the test was trinity

The explosion vaporized all buildings in the area and turned the ground to glass

june 6,1944- august 30, 1944

D-Day allied invasion of norway, france, on june 6, 1944

Approximately 156,000 allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day

D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944,

1942-1945

The tuskegee Airmen trained in the Great Lakes after graduation

Nearly 200 planes crashed into the Great lakes during WW2

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18aviatorsdown/history.html

september 1 ,1939

Germany started World war ll by attacking Poland

They used fast attacks with bombs and tanks

Hitler created forces to kill his enemies and build camps

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-1/germany-invades-poland

May 7, 1945

Remis, France

Soviet and American forces met in Germany in late April 1945

Bring the end of war in eruope

Sepetember 2, 1945

Missouri in Tokyo Bay

The signing took place aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/surrender-of-japan#:~:text=On%20September%202%2C%201945%2C%20Japanese,Truman.

December 13, 1937

A bunch of Japanese murdered over 300,000 Chinese

Over ten thousand women and girls were sexually assaulted during the invasion

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

Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929

Jews were forced to wear the star of David

Nazi accupation and anti- Jewish laws in the Netherlands

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

Naomi Parker Fraley was identified as the women in a 1942 photo that insired the Rosie the Riveter poster

Her recognition came later in lie thanks to the research of scholar james J. Kimble

The poster had many fake stories

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

Women soldiers meant to inspire men to fight

Strict leaders, no say for women,tough rules

No women uniformes had to wear mens clothes

https://historydetectivepodcast.com/maria-bochkareva-and-the-the-russian-womens-battalion-of-death/#:~:text=There%20was%20a%20massive%20response,was%20whittled%20down%20to%20300.

The Soviet dogs were trained to target German tanks.

Over 40,000 Soviet anti-tank dogs were trained to be sacerficed

The soviet dogs were equipped with backpacks carrying several pounds of explosives.

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

Curved barrel for shooting around corners

used mirrors to aim

Didint work very well

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

Their bat bombs

wwll camps for japanese Americans

Forced to leave their homes

It was a Big mistake

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

Jews fought back against nazis

Hard to do,But they tried

Fought groups all over Europe

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

Nazis killed millions of jews

Started with hate got worse in the war

They took over countries and killed more

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

Countries tried to stay out of wwll

Neutrality didin't work

Germany And Russia invaded anyways

https://www.history.com/articles/neutral-countries-world-war-ii

Hitler wanted more land

He also needed whale oil for margarine

So, germany wanted to Antarctica

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