https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn en-us 2022-05-06 18:56:33 UTC 2022-05-20 03:25:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173345606 Combatants: Germany and Poland

Description: Germany invades Poland through the method of Blitzkrieg by sending an overwhelming amount of troops into Poland. 

Outcome: After this Germany was able to occupy Poland.

]]> 2022-05-06 19:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173345606 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173391928 Combatants: Germany and France

Description: The German invasion of lower countries and France and other places such as Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Outcome: France as well as Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands were now under German occupation]]> 2022-05-06 19:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173391928 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173392698 Combatants: Britain, The U.S., Germany and Italy

Description: The North African Campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. 

Outcome:The Allied victory in North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops, opened a second front against the Axis.]]> 2022-05-06 19:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173392698 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173393065 Combatants: Britain and Germany

Description: The Battle of Britain was a military campaign in which Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom from against attacks from Germany's Air Force, The Luftwaffe. 

Outcome: Although Britain had suffered mass loss of life and aircraft, they had weakened the Luftwaffe and prevented Germany from Air Superiority.]]> 2022-05-06 19:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173393065 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173393650 Combatants: Germany and The U.S.S.R.

Description: Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and most of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

Outcome: The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.]]> 2022-05-06 19:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173393650 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173395174 Combatants: The U.S. and Japan

Description: The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu

Outcome: The day after the attack, Roosevelt delivered his famous Day of Infamy speech to a Joint Session of Congress, calling for a formal declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. Congress obliged his request less than an hour later. ]]> 2022-05-06 19:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173395174 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173395511 Combatants: Japan, the U.S. and Australia 

Description: A major naval battle between Japanese navy forces and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia.

Outcome: The US fleet suffered greater losses in the battle. US losses: One carrier destroyed, one damaged, one oiler and one destroyer sunk, 66 aircraft lost, and 543 men killed or wounded.]]> 2022-05-06 19:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173395511 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173396927 Combatants: The U.S. and Japan

Description: The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. 

Outcome: The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.]]> 2022-05-06 19:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173396927 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173398019 Combatants: Germany and The U.S.S.R.

Description: The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

Outcome: It put Hitler and the Axis powers on the defensive, and boosted Russian confidence as it continued to do battle on the Eastern Front in World War II.]]> 2022-05-06 19:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173398019 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173400136 Combatants: The United Kingdom, Canada the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.  

Description: Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. 

Outcome: With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.

]]> 2022-05-06 19:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173400136 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173401387 Combatants: The U.S. and Japan

Description: The Battle of Okinawa, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

Outcome: The Battle of Okinawa was a victory for the U.S. but resulted in massive casualties on both sides. 

]]> 2022-05-06 19:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173401387 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173402909 Combatants: The U.S.

Description: V-E Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. 

Outcome: Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the Allies, including the United States.]]> 2022-05-06 19:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173402909 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173405155 Combatants: The U.S.

Description: On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.

Outcome: It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.]]> 2022-05-06 20:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2173405155 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2178150997 Combatants: The U.S.

Description: The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, and destroyed the innermost portion of Nagasaki; between 60,000 and 80,000 persons were killed.

Outcome: After these the two bombings resulted in Japans unconditional surrender from the war.

]]> 2022-05-10 18:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2178150997 10186618 https://padlet.com/10186618/u8qbezthiup7m6rn/wish/2178152236 Combatants: The U.S.

Description: V-J Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II.

Outcome: This effectively brought the end to WWII.

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