Period 1 APUSH WWII Timeline Jigsaw by https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8 en-us 2023-02-07 19:24:30 UTC 2025-04-25 17:45:45 UTC hello@padlet.com March 14, 1933 - Hitler establishes a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda gracemariemonaghan https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473382192 This ministry was organized by the Nazi government in order to control the messages of various forms of media to ensure that they represent Hitler’s message.  ]]> 2023-02-08 13:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473382192 September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473385674 Triggered WWII to begin. 
Generals: Colonel General Fedor Von Bock- commanded Army Group North 
General Georg von Küchler- 3rd army that was supposed to strike southward from East Prussia
General Günther von Kluge- 4th army that was commanded to attack eastward across the Polish Corridor. 

]]> 2023-02-08 13:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473385674 Early 1933 - Nazi regime destroyed the country’s free press gracemariemonaghan https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473387759 Soon after Hitler came to power as chancellor, the Nazi regime began shutting down newspapers that opposed their new government. They transferred Jewish-owned publishing houses slowly and covertly gained control of established periodicals. The Propaganda Ministry started to oversee all music, theater, film, newspapers, etc. and used these media forms to advance the Nazi agenda]]> 2023-02-08 13:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473387759 December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor gracemariemonaghan https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473388614 Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor; start of America in WWII. Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, leading to the US entering WW2 and declaring war on Germany and Japan.]]> 2023-02-08 13:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473388614 February, 1941-Japanese Internment Camps https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473389417

]]> 2023-02-08 13:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473389417 June 29, 1943 - Community Facilities Act of 1942 https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473389485 First US government childcare facilities; seven centers, servicing 105,000 children were built; passed by FDR after being urged by Eleanor Roosevelt. 



]]> 2023-02-08 13:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473389485 September 3, 1939- May 10, 1940 -Phoney War hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390039 It is an eight-month period at the start of WWII where there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany’s Saar district. 
Generals: General Maurice Gamlin 


]]> 2023-02-08 13:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390039 December 8, 1941- US Declares War on Japan gracemariemonaghan https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390116 After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt persuades congress to vote to go to war with Japan ]]> 2023-02-08 13:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390116 May 26, 1940 – June 4, 1940- Battle of Dunkirk delaneyereynolds1 https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390973 After conquering France, Hitler and his troops continued west through France and pushed French, Belgian, and British troops to the beaches of Dunkirk, France, in the summer of 1940. The British Military along with many ordinary British civilians chose to risk their lives by sailing fishing boats, personal yachts, and other types of boats across the English Channel where they successfully rescued over 300,000 Allied soldiers. It raised the Allied Power’s war spirit and hope. The evacuation of Dunkirk was known as operation dynamo
Generals: General John Gort (British commander) started the evacuation of Dunkirk
Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsey (British) helped direct the evacuation

]]> 2023-02-08 13:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473390973 July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940 - Battle of Britain https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391320 The Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force. This demonstrated the courage of the country's military and its people, which allowed them to remain free from Nazi occupation. (Main commanders and leaders: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Hermann Göring, Keith Park, Albert Kesselring, Hans Jurgen Stumpff, and Hugo Sperle). The Battle of Britain was an unsuccessful German air raid on Great Britain, which kept the Nazis out of England and showed resilience and bravery of the British people.

]]> 2023-02-08 13:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391320 September 30, 1941- Battle of Moscow hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391792 The Axis Powers invaded the Soviet Union, but the Soviets were able to successfully prevent the most serious attempt to capture their capital, ending the Germans’ intentions to capture Moscow. (Generals: Fedor von Bock, Heinz Guderian, Georgy Zhukov, and Aleksandr Vasilevsky)


]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391792 August 5, 1943 - Women's Air-force Service Pilots https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391852 Women pilots (WASPs) who flew planes from the factories to military bases.]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473391852 May 11th, 1941 - The Blitz https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392122 The Blitz is the bombing campaign done by Nazi Germany toward the United Kingdom. Bombs were being dropped on London and other cities across Britain for 8 months. They bombed in the night specifically to catch Britain off guard and not have the soldiers prepared. This was also known as the lightning war. (Commanders and Leaders : Winston Churchill, Frederick Gossage, Adolf Hitler, and Kesselring Jeschonneck) ]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392122 1942- Navajo Code Talkers https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392149 Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392149 March 22, 1933-First Concentration Camp, Dachau, was established https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392250 The first concentration camp was established by Nazi officials to imprison political figures.]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392250 May 10, 1940- June 25, 1940 - Battle of France https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392431 This resulted in the capture of France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. After the battle, Nazi Germany took direct control of the northern half of France, and created a puppet state in the south called “Vichy France.”

Generals: General Maurice Gamelin (French commander)- strong supporter of the defensive strategy on the Maginot Line

]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392431 1943- Fear of the Nazis- Calling to Stay vigilant https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392718

Many of the fear-inspiring posters depicted Nazi acts of atrocity. Although brutality is always part of war, the atrocities of World War II were so terrible, and of such magnitude, as to engender a new category of crime—crimes against humanity. The images here were composed to foster fear. Implicit in these posters is the idea that what happened there could happen here. 

]]> 2023-02-08 13:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473392718 December 18, 1944 - Korematsu v. United States ellaruppersberger https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393219 After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans feared that the West Coast would be invaded by the Japanese. Therefore, FDR enacted Executive Order 9066, which forced internment for all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to relocation centers located in the interior of the US. A Supreme Court case followed in which Fred Korematsu, the son of two Japanese immigrants living in California, was convicted for refusing to relocate. This case held that the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393219 July 17, 1942-Surrender at Stalingrad https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393309 Germany unsuccessfully fought The Soviet Union in an attempt to control Stalingrad, Russia. Germany surrendered, making it a turning point of the war, however over 170,000 people were captured or killed. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393309 June 22, 1941- December 5, 1941 - Operation Barbarossa https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393321  Hitler violated the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact by invading the Soviet Union. The Germans were unsuccessful due to the winter in which they were unprepared for.
Generals and leaders: Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel,  Alfred Jodl,  Walther von Brauchitsch, Franz Halder, Hermann Göring, Hans Jeschonnek, Fedor von Bock.

]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393321 1943- "Make it do or do without" https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393528 Various supplies were experiencing shortages such as copper. The US mint started making steel pennies in order to conserve copper for military use. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393528 1943- Women were Called to Step Up https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393561 Poster and film images glorified and glamorized the roles of working women and suggested that a woman's femininity need not be sacrificed. Whether fulfilling their duty in the home, factory, office, or military, women were portrayed as attractive, confident, and resolved to do their part to win the war. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393561 August 14, 1945- Victory Over Japan (V-J Day) delaneyereynolds1 https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393679 President Harry S. Truman announced on 8/14/1945 that Japan surrendered and citizens across the United States celebrated the end of this war. 
Generals: Douglas MacArthur, Robert Eichelberger and Jonathan Wainwright 

]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473393679 1944 - The Buffalo Soldiers https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394278 Of 12,846 Buffalo Soldiers who saw action, 2,848 were killed, captured or wounded. The Buffalo Soldiers did, in fact, break through the Gothic Line. They reached their objective, captured or helped to capture nearly 24,000 prisoners and received more than 12,000 decorations and citations for their gallantry in combat.]]> 2023-02-08 13:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394278 Late 1942- USA Military Draft https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394638 All men aged 18054 are forced to register for the military draft. Most men volunteered in order to avoid being drafted.  ]]> 2023-02-08 13:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394638 June 14, 1943- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394678 Supreme court case in which a West Virginia school made students say the Pledge of Allegiance or the student could be expelled. The Barnette’s were Jehovah’s witnesses and believed that the pledge was worshipping “graven images”. The Supreme Court determined the school could not force them to say the Pledge because it went against the First amendment’s guarantee to free speech. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394678 July 17, 1942- Feb 2, 1943- Battle of Stalingrad hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394775 A major battle on the Eastern Front where Naxi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad, a city in Southern Russia. It is considered one of the greatest battles in WWII and it marked a turning point in the war. It significantly weakened Germany’s military forces. 
(Axis commanders: Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, General Vasily Chiukov, and General Mikhail Shumilov)
]]> 2023-02-08 13:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473394775 August 1942-February 1943 Island Hoppers https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473395963 This is when the Allied Powers would attack the Japanese Islands and go from one island and then move onto the next island when it had less defense. This strategy succeeded by forcing Japan to relinquish the island. (Generals : General Macarthur and Admiral Nimitz)]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473395963 June 6, 1944- D-Day hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396021 Allied invasion of Normandy, France through land, air, and sea forces. It is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
(Allied Leaders: U.S President Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill)


]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396021 April 4, 1945-Liberation of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396104 Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp to be liberated by the U.S. army. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396104 June 1944 - Theresienstadt https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396175 The German Security Police allowed a team of members from the International Red Cross to come to the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto, located in the Protectorate of Bohemia in order to inspect the camp. In 1944 the camp underwent a beautification process which disguised the atrocious conditions in order to produce a film in which the camp presented the camp as an enjoyable place for Jewish residents. Afterwords, the “actors” from the film were deported to Auschwitz.  ]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396175 1945- Flu Vaccine https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396197 The flu vaccine was invented to help combat the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people a few decades earlier. This was first used during WWII, and given to soldiers fighting in the war.]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396197 September 3, 1943- September 17, 1943 - Invasion of Italy https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396238 After the German and Italian troops were driven from North America and Sicily, the Allies invaded Italy, landing in Calabria and south of Salerno, British and American forces pushed inland. The Allied armies were able to force Axis naval, air and land divisions out of the area.
(Allied Commanders: General Sir Harold Alexander, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, and Lieutenant General Mark Clark)
(Axis Commanders: Field Marshal Albert Kesserling and Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff)

]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396238 December 28, 1942- The Manhattan Project https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396347 American-led effort to  
develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II; authorized by FDR and research facilities were set up in locations such as New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington. 
]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396347 1941-1946 - Tuskegee Airmen ellaruppersberger https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396696 The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps. Almost 1000 aviators were produced as America's first African American military pilots. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396696 1943- Calling Men to War https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396863 The Government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign with clearly articulated goals and strategies to galvanize public support, and it recruited some of the nation's foremost intellectuals, artists, and filmmakers to wage the war on that front. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473396863 June 19, 1944- Battle of Philippine Sea hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397396 A major naval battle of WWII that eliminated the Japanese Navy’s ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions: Japanese fleet lost to the American fleet. 
US General: Raymond A. Spruance and Marc Mitscher


]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397396 1939-1945 American Soldiers https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397446 During the war, some 16,112,566 Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed and 671,278 wounded. There were also 130,201 American prisoners of war, of whom 116,129 returned home after the war.]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397446 December 13, 1937-The Rape of Nanking https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397760 The Rape of Nanking was the mass Chinese genocide by the Japanese, where they brutally murdered civilians, raped women, and destroyed the city. 

]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397760 August 6, 1945 - the first atomic bomb https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397896 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the town of Hiroshima, a city on the largest island in Japan with a population of over 400,000. The codename for this event was Little Boy. The bomb was carried by an American bomber after president Harry S. Truman approved its use against Japan. The nickname for this bomb was “The Little Boy”
Generals: Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves

]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473397896 April 20, 1945 - Treuenbrietzen Massacre https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398086 The Treuenbrietzen Massacre was when the red Army rounded up 30-166 civilians and murdered them.]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398086 February, 1941 First person to receive penicillin https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398425 An Oxford policeman was the first to receive penicillin when he was experiencing infection throughout his body. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398425 December 16, 1944- Battle of the Bulge hmaymadom https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398728 Hitler, along with over 200,000 German troops, advanced to the Ardennes Forest held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning. After only one day of fighting, the Germans broke through the American front. ​​English-speaking German soldiers, disguised as Americans, capturing critical bridges, cutting communications lines, and spreading rumors.
US General: George S. Patton Jr.


]]> 2023-02-08 13:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473398728 February 10, 1947 - Everson v. Board of Education ellaruppersberger https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399157 Arch R. Everson filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education of the Township of Ewing. He did this because a New Jersey law authorized that the local school board reimbursed transportation cost to and from school. This cost included private schools, 96% of which were Catholic. Everson alleged that the indirect religious aid violated the first amendment and NJ state constitution. After the case moved to the supreme court, the verdict argued the law did not violate the constitution because the law did not directly pay money to the religious schools. Instead, it was enacted to help parents get their children to school. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399157 Spring of 1942- War Rationing https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399207 A rationing program set limits on the amount of gas, food and clothing consumers could purchase. Families were issued ration stamps that were used to buy their allotment of almost everything. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399207 August 9, 1945 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399250 The United States dropped a plutonium bomb, codename Fat Man, on the Japanese village of Nagasaki. This bomb caused far greater damage than the “Little Boy” bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb detonated at an altitude of 1,650 feet. The bomb was 40% more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Pilots: Captain Frederick C. Block and Major Charles W. Sweeney flew the planes that dropped the bomb.

]]> 2023-02-08 13:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473399250 April 20th - May 2nd, 1945 - Battle of Berlin https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473400099 This was one of the last battles of the war. The Soviet Union surrounded the city of Berlin, while the city was being consistently bombed by the Allied Powers. Since the entire purpose of this battle was to capture the city of Berlin, the people of the Soviet Union did not care about the casualties and destruction that this battle would have caused. The Soviet Union was completely destroying Berlin. All the people of Berlin could do was hide and hope that this would be over soon. There were two million shells during the final assault. (Generals : Helmulth Weidling and Georgy Chuikov) 

]]> 2023-02-08 13:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473400099 1939-1945 Casualties throughout War https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473401257 About 70-85 million people died during WW2 (about 3%) of the population at that time. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473401257 1950s - “1950s housewife” ellaruppersberger https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473401751 After WWII, there was a stereotype for women as housewives, but 32% of women were working outside of the home because WWII solidified the notion that women were in the workforce to stay.]]> 2023-02-08 13:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473401751 June 3-7, 1942 - Battle of Midway https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473403078  A major naval battle between Japan and the United States near the Midway Atoll (in the Pacific Ocean.) Japan wanted to eliminate the United States influence and threat in the war and destroy their Pacific Fleet. Japan believed they were planning a surprise attack, but the United States decoded their plan and carried out their own surprise attack on the Japanese Imperial Navy. This destroyed the Japanese Navy and resulted in many losses that could not be replaced or rebuilt in time for the rest of the war. This battle is considered the turning point of WWII because of the tremendous victory for the United States. (Generals : Admiral Chester Nimitz, Frank Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance) ]]> 2023-02-08 13:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473403078 May 8, 1945- Victory in Europe delaneyereynolds1 https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473403547 Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the allies, including the United States. This marked the end of World War II Europe. Generals: German Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl who signed Germany's surrender on all fronts in Reims, France and German Field Marshal Wilhelm who was insisted upon by Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. ]]> 2023-02-08 13:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilson1776/txqog12uhemd28q8/wish/2473403547