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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