World War 2 by Camille Phillips https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh en-us 2023-04-24 15:15:36 UTC 2023-04-24 23:41:55 UTC hello@padlet.com January 30, 1933 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565876681 On January 30, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. This day was when Hitler was named the leader or führer 
of National Socialist German Workers Party, known as the Nazi Party.
 
]]> 2023-04-24 15:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565876681 September 1, 1939 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880361 On this day, Hitler invaded Poland from the air. They invaded because to regain lost territory and rule their neighbors to their left.]]> 2023-04-24 15:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880361 June 22, 1940 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880715 With Paris fallen and the German conquest of France reaching its conclusion, Marshal Henri Petain replaces Paul Reynaud as prime minister and announces his intention to sign an armistice with the Nazis.]]> 2023-04-24 15:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880715 July 10, 1940 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880974 On June 10, 1940, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.]]> 2023-04-24 15:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565880974 June 6, 1944 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565881662 the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.]]> 2023-04-24 15:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565881662 December 7, 1941 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565889120 Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded.]]> 2023-04-24 15:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565889120 September 15, 1935 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565893847  The Nuremberg Race Laws did not identify a “Jew” as someone with particular religious convictions but instead as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents.]]> 2023-04-24 15:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565893847 May 8, 1945 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565894568 On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II.]]> 2023-04-24 15:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565894568 June 22, 1941 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565895849 On June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German and Axis troops invaded the Soviet Union along an 1,800-mile-long front, launching Operation Barbarossa. It was Germany’s largest invasion force of the war, representing some 80 percent of the Wehrmacht, the German armed forces, and one of the most powerful invasion forces in history.]]> 2023-04-24 15:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565895849 December 16, 1944 camille_phillips_902 https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565906886 The Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The German troops’ failure to divide Britain, France and America with the Ardennes offensive paved the way to victory for the allies.]]> 2023-04-24 15:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camille_phillips_902/pp3igw2fqiqr99bh/wish/2565906886