Friday 2/8

We presented our picture projects, but we reviewed first.

1918-WW1 ended

1919 Treaty of Versailles

1920s Peace!

1930 GD starts

1931 Japan invades Manchuria

1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany

1939 WW2 starts

Germany invades Poland and the USSR invades a few days later. Landslide victory by USSR and Germany.

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the US declares war the next day. pearl harbor-military base where the entire American fleet happened to be at the time of the attack

death camps- all were in poland; German camps that killed and worked the jews to death

Stalingrad- between the Russians and Nazis; Russians just kept retreating and burning all the resources they passed through. bloodiest battle in world history. Lasted 5 months and the Germans had control of 90% of the city

D-day- the allies invaded the beaches of Normandy beaches in Northern France June 6 1944; beginning of the end for Hitler

Yalta Conference- meeting between Prime Minister of Britain- Winston Churchill, US president-FDR, Dictator of Russia- Stalin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki- US bombed Japanese cities with the atomic bombs

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