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The Battle of Stalingrad

marshall_a — 2025-03-27 18:12:05 UTC

The Battle of Stalingrad was a fight between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from July 1942 to February 1943. Stalingrad was a key turning point on the eastern front in favor of the allies. The German 6th army took major losses in this battle which was a blow to Hitler’s plans for dominance.

https://edencamp.co.uk/blog/the-10-most-influential-battles-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Significance%3A%20Stalingrad%20marked%20the%20turning,for%20dominance%20in%20the%20East.

Battle of Britain

marshall_a — 2025-03-28 17:52:09 UTC

The battle of Britain was the first military campaign fought by air forces between July and October 1940. The battle of british talked about the importance of air superioirity in warfare.

https://edencamp.co.uk/blog/the-10-most-influential-battles-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Significance%3A%20Stalingrad%20marked%20the%20turning,for%20dominance%20in%20the%20East.

Battle of Midway

marshall_a — 2025-03-28 18:07:14 UTC

The battle of midway, was fought in June 1942, it was a horrible battle between the United States and Japan. They fought in the Pacific Theatre. The Midway battle turned the war in the Pacific.Hurting the Japanese navy by sinking four of their aircraft carriers. The battle demonstrated intelligence and strategy.

https://edencamp.co.uk/blog/the-10-most-influential-battles-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Significance%3A%20Stalingrad%20marked%20the%20turning,for%20dominance%20in%20the%20East.

Battle of El Alamein

marshall_a — 2025-03-28 18:20:56 UTC

The Battle of El Alamein was fought in October through November in the year 1942 in Egypt. The war was led by the British general bernard. The war lead to the retreat of Axis forces.

https://edencamp.co.uk/blog/the-10-most-influential-battles-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Significance%3A%20Stalingrad%20marked%20the%20turning,for%20dominance%20in%20the%20East.

Battle of the Atlantic

marshall_a — 2025-04-01 16:01:20 UTC

From September 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945 the battle of atlantic was about the allies striking a blockage against Germany and making a struggle for the control of Atlantic sea routes. Over the 5 years, thousands of ships were in 100-plus battles in the Atlantic Ocean with 100,000 lives lost.

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-the-Atlantic:-September-3-1939-to-May-8-1945

Battle of Britain

marshall_a — 2025-04-01 16:09:47 UTC

From July 10 to October 31, 1940, after a four month air campain Britain's Air Force and Navy started bomb attacks on Germany's air force, in an attempt to destroy the RAF before invading. Hitler's decided to bomb london and not the military bases

https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-the-Atlantic:-September-3-1939-to-May-8-1945

Lake Michigan

marshall_a — 2025-04-01 17:37:26 UTC

from 1942-1945 the tuskegee airmen trained in the great lakes after graduation. nearly 200 planes crashed into the great lakes during WW2

https;/oceanexplorer.noga.com

Battle of the Coral Sea

marshall_a — 2025-04-01 18:04:57 UTC

The battle’s background was set by the Japanese plan in 1942. The country forces advance south from the Bismarcks and Solomons. In the beginning of may 7th the two sides exchanged air strikes over two days.

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1942/battle-of-coral-sea.html

Rosie the Riveter

marshall_a — 2025-04-02 17:29:40 UTC

In 1942 a woman named Naomi Parker was working at the machine shop when a photographer snapped a picture of her. Two years later after the women got her recogniton she was pointed to be an inspiration of a poster girl "Rosie the Riveter. Inspiring women around the world to go into male jobs.

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

Anne Frank House

marshall_a — 2025-04-02 17:32:08 UTC

Anne Frank was 10 year old Jewish girl who lived with her family in Netherlands. On September 1st 1939 the nazi invaded poland and her and her family were forced to go into hiding.She was then captured and was soon killed but her dairy was found and famous for being a primary source to what her and her family went through

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1743618714871303&usg=AOvVaw30pgfcYzAQl9zhnr1L6BiR

Nanjing Massacre

marshall_a — 2025-04-02 17:47:24 UTC

On September 18 1931, Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria, China. The japan Army captured china captial city, Nanjing and killed over 300,000 civillans and thosands of un armed soilders. The leader of Japan was then charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/nanjing-massacre

New Japanese Surrender

marshall_a — 2025-04-02 18:06:32 UTC

On September 2nd, 1945, Japanese representatives signed an official Instrument of Surrender, In court the japan imperial general spoke and said, "We hereby command all Japanese forces wherever situated and the Japanese people to cease hostilities forthwith, to preserve and save from damage all ships,aircraft, and military and civil property"

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

The Invasion of Ethiopia

marshall_a — 2025-04-07 15:57:54 UTC

Ethiopia is an African nation that was invaded by Italy under Benito Mussolini.The Italians made tons of atrocities on the African state. For example poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ethiopia-invaded/

Anti-Tank Attack Dogs

marshall_a — 2025-04-21 17:53:38 UTC

In World War 2, the Soviets started using trained dogs as suicide bombers.The dogs were trained to target German tanks. They strapped backpacks carrying several of explosives on the dogs. When the dog slipped beneath a tank, the level was depressed, triggering the explosives.

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

The Wind Cannon

marshall_a — 2025-04-21 18:02:44 UTC

The Air Force joined Great Britain in bombing german cities, targeting factories and warehouses and transportation hubs. The German military faced a shortage of weapons compared with the Allies, who were tunring out airplanes and tanks at a steady pace.

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

Exploding Rats

marshall_a — 2025-04-23 17:37:08 UTC

A spy gadget created by the British SOE during WW2. London stuffed 1000 dead rats with explosives and shipped them off to agents in German who were supposed to put the dead rats by the boilers. The idea was the workers pick the dead rats up and throw it in the boiler setting off the explosive and blowing up the place.

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

The Holocaust

marshall_a — 2025-04-23 17:43:17 UTC

The Holocaust began in 1993 when Hitler and the Nazi Party Put Jews in conservation camps and killed millions of innocent children and families and in-slaved them, had horrible living condition, child labor, brutal mistreatment and were took to the killing center.

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

Heroes of the Resistance

marshall_a — 2025-04-23 17:51:56 UTC

Most Jewish armed resistance took place in 1942. Many Jews throughout German occupied Europe attempted armed resistance against the German.Jewish resistance units in France, Belgium, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, and Poland.

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

Japanese Interment Camp

marshall_a — 2025-04-23 17:58:58 UTC

Japan Interment Camp was the policy of the government that people of Japan descent, would be in jailed in isolated camps.The incarceration of Japanese Americans is considered one of the most Horrible violations of American civil rights in the 20th century. They seperated the japans from their family and forced their young ones to do child labor with horrible condition.

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

Prison Camps

marshall_a — 2025-04-23 18:05:40 UTC

In New Mexico, on July 27, 1942,prisoners were delivered by trains and forced to march two miles at night to the camp the march, two japanese men were shot and killed by a sentry who claimed they were attempting to escape. Japanese Americans testified later that the two elderly men were disabled and had been struggling during the march to Lordsburg. The sentry was found not guilty by the army court martial board trail which led the prison camps