https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4 en-us 2023-04-06 14:37:55 UTC 2023-04-09 07:40:24 UTC hello@padlet.com jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546348947 On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, The Nazi accused Poland of persecuting Germans living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to dismember and destroy Germany.]]> 2023-04-06 14:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546348947 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546349442 The Battle of Britain was a major air battle, fought largely over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940. After the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and the Fall of France, Germany planned to gain air superiority in preparation for an invasion of Great Britain. 880,000 British forces died and More than 1700 Luftwaffe planes were destroyed. The 2662 German casualties included many experienced aircrew, and the Luftwaffe. In the end even though both sides had heavy casualties Britain was declared the winner of this battle which was one of many big turning points in the war.]]> 2023-04-06 14:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546349442 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546350079 Early on December 7, 1941, citizens and service members in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, faced terror as Japanese planes rained fire on the island in a stunning surprise attack. The attack killed 2,403 U.S. service members, including 68 civilians, and destroyed or damaged 19 U.S. Navy ships, including 8 battleships. The Japanese lost 29 aircraft and 5 midget submarines in the attack. One Japanese soldier was taken prisoner and 129 Japanese soldiers were killed. The assault quickly plunged the United States into World War II]]> 2023-04-06 14:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546350079 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546351681 The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific during World War II that took place from June 4th-7th 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States lost one heavy aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown along with one destroyer. Aircraft Casualties included 320 Japanese planes and 150 U.S. planes. Human Casualties included approximately 3,000 sailors and airmen killed. A total of 317 United States sailors, airmen, and marines were killed. one of the reasons the death toll was so high is because the Japanese adopted a war strategy called kamikaze which was sending pilots to suicide bombing or flying into the US ships trying to cause the most amount of chaos and damage to the warships. The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy. this win was another major turning point for the Allied powers during WWII.]]> 2023-04-06 14:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546351681 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546352364 Italy surrendered to the Allied forces after more than three years as a member of the alliance of the Axis Powers. At 7:30 in the evening local time, radio listeners in Italy were stunned to hear their Prime Minister, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, read the statement that "The Italian Government, recognizing the impossibility of continuing the unequal struggle against the overwhelming power of the enemy, and with the object of avoiding further and more grievous harm to the nation, has requested an armistice from General Eisenhower.]]> 2023-04-06 14:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546352364 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546352797 The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history. The operation, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British , and their allies, landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10,300. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front.The estimated total battle casualties for the United States were 135,000, including 29,000 killed and 106,000 wounded and missing.]]> 2023-04-06 14:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546352797 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546353427
 On April 29, 1945, Italian Patriots executed Benito Mussolini Saturday, and on Sunday a howling mob is kicking and spat on his remains lying in the center of this city where Italian Fascism was born. He died shouting "No! No!" to a firing squad that took his life, and that of his mistress, near the village of Dongo on Lake Como near the Swiss border at 4:10 p.m.

]]> 2023-04-06 14:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546353427 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546354054 On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces]]> 2023-04-06 14:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546354054 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546354519 On August 9th, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped another Atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of a new and cruel bomb]]> 2023-04-06 14:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546354519 jardinet0512 https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546355018 The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on August 15th with the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan was signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war hostilities to a close]]> 2023-04-06 14:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jardinet0512/slyz3e1qb3ccpay4/wish/2546355018