September 1, 1939

Hitler announced that Germany was annexing Danzig

This began WW2 in Europe

The fall of France left Great Britain to face Hitler alone

July 1940 is when it began

Got info from The world history textbook

December 7 1941

The Japanese navy raided the navy airbase, killing over 2,400 Americans

Info History TextBook

Late December 1941

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's purpose was to devise a strategy to help allies defeat Axis powers

Info from History Textbook

From July 17 1942, to February 2, 1943

When Russia defended Stalingrad from the German Wehrmacht

info from https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad

June 6, 1944

France attacked Germany Behind Germany's defenses and destroyed a lot

info from https://www.britannica.com/event/D-Day-in-pictures-2146801

December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945

The French Empire destroyed the last offensive line in Germany

Info fromhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Bulge

It started and ended in 1933 – 1945

The holocaust was the Germans conquering most of Europe and taking its people and torturing them.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust

1942-1945

The Tuskegee Airmen trained in the great lakes after graduation

Nearly 200 planes crashed into the Great Lakes during WW2

Mr.V

September 30, 1928- July 2, 2016

Holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner

elie was 15 when he was captured by the nazis and sent away to a concentrated camp in Poland

He is most famous for his book, Night, which describes his experiences in the holocaust

December 13, 1937

The Japanese army captured what was then China’s capital city, Nanjing, and killed as many as 300,000 civilians and numerous unarmed Chinese soldiers for two months.

July 6, 1942 - February or March 1945

Anne Frank hid in 1942 from the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands. Two years later, she was discovered. In 1945, she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

They were called the Battalion of Death because they were willing to fight to the death. 2000 women applied to be part of the first battalion that Bochkareva was charged with training, but this was whittled down to 300.

February and October Revolutions of 1917

https://historydetectivepodcast.com/maria-bochkareva-and-the-the-russian-womens-battalion-of-death/#:~:text=There%20was%20a%20massive%20response,was%20whittled%20down%20to%20300.

In January 1942

Its purpose was to convert the factories of peacetime industries into manufacturing plants for weapons and military equipment for the fight. The second goal was to conserve materials like metal, which soldiers, sailors, and Marines would need for the fight

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/2128446/during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production/

In October 1939.

When the Nazis Seperated the jews they was forced to move in the ghettos

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos

Between 1933 and 1945

The Nazi camps they had Over 44,000 Of these camps going on a mass murder spree

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps

In September 1943

Nearly 200 military aircraft were lost in the Great Lakes during World War II. The vast majority of accidents occurred in lower Lake Michigan, where Navy aviators attempted to qualify for carrier takeoffs and landings

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18aviatorsdown/history.html

In September 1939

Britain and France declared war on Germany, and WW2 erupted. Dozens of countries, still recovering from the horrors of WW1, tried to remain neutral to avoid invasion and more bloodshed.

https://www.history.com/articles/neutral-countries-world-war-ii

Feb. 15, 1945

In the waning months of World War II, the 855 women of color who comprised the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion 824 enlisted Soldiers and 31 officers completed a time-sensitive mission in the European Theater of Operations.

https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/a-different-kind-of-victory-the-6888th-central-postal-directory-battalion/

From 1942 to 1945

Weeks before the order, the Navy removed citizens of Japanese descent from Terminal Island near the Port of Los Angeles.

On December 7, 1941, just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded up 1,291 Japanese American community and religious leaders, arresting them without evidence and freezing their assets.

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