Monday, May 3

No blog this again this week=D Thank you Mr. Bruns!!!!!!!

Mr. Bruns' powerpoint.

Operation Barbarosa--greatest land war in history, main front expanded greatly, winter turned the tide in favor of Soviets

German Wehrmacht(Army)--German Arm in USSR was split: North to Leningrad, Centre to Moscw, South to Rostov to the Caucasus Mountains to Stalingrad; never made it to Moscow, got 90% of Stalingrad, blockade around Leningrad--many died of starvation and eventually failed

Tuskegee Airmen--black airforce

Dwight Eisenhower(Ike)--general during WWII

June 6, 1944--D-Day, postponed b/c of bad weather

Battle of the Bulge--Hitler's last offensive, coldest snowiest winter in memory, very deadly

VE Day--May 8, 1945

FDR dies, Truman swore in

Japan

invaded french indo china, we stopped trading

battle of coral sea, midway, turning points

Dec, 7, 1941--pearl harbor as well as phillipines

australia--base of opparations for US

Navajo code-talkers

Doolittle's Raid--famous pilots, rounded up young pilots to attack Japan

Coral sea--no one won but victory of US b/c Japan didnt win

Midway--knew atack was coming b/c of Magic, sunk lot of Japan's ships

start island hopping in 1942

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