continued on WW2 projects
Continued with Cali, Courtney, and Hannah's project
- Battle of Midway June 4-7 1942:
- battle of US and Japanese
- Japanese lost 9000 people
- US destroyed the 4 carriers that bombed pearl harbor
- US only lost one carrier
- D-day June 6 1944:
- 150 troops on Omaha beach
- allies
- invasion of France
- Layte gulf battle:
- US and Japan fighting for control of the gulf
- US won
- in the Philippines
- greatest naval battle
- Auschwitz is liberated Jan. 1945:
- working death camp
- Soviet union liberated it
- Lots of the Jews died before the liberation
- others died walking back
- Auschwitz was in Poland
- Iwo Jima Feb. 19 1945:
- US wanted it because it was a good landing place between US and Japan
- US won
- Battle on the island
- flags of our fathers
- Germany Surrenders May 1945:
- Germany surrenders because they fight left
- Germany leader(not Hitler) surrender
- Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6-9, 1945:
- US drops bombs that destroys the cities
- Japan Surrender August 1945:
Dani Wingert:
- Pearl Harbor December 7 1941:
- Japan vs. US
- Japan trying to take over china
- US sent troops over to china
- Japan bombed US because of US helping China
- Caused US to go into war
- Battle of Stalingrad July 17, 1942- Feb. 2, 1943:
- Soviet vs. Germany
- Soviet won
- D-day June 6, 1944:
- Battle of Normandy
- Battle of the Bulge December 16, 1944:
- Hitler last major offense
- 6 months away from the end of the war
- fought in Belgium
- Hitler getting nervous because US closing in
- Hitler very ill
- goal was to get to English channel
- trap all the US, British, and French soldiers
- make US, Britain, and France surrender
Evan's Project:
- Doomsday 1944:
- Fought on beaches of Normandy
- fought on June 6th, 1944
- aka D-day
- Operation Overlord
- Invasion of France
- Roosevelt wins 4th term:
- won against Doyie
- election of '44
- took office in March '45
- Auschwitz Liberated Jan. '45:
- German Death camp
- Dresden raid:
- fire storm
- covered 15 square miles
- in Germany
- 700 bombers
- up to 25,000 deaths
- Nagasaki Hiroshima bomb August 6-9, 1945:
- 2 nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man
- last to nuclear bombs dropped
Tina Brooke and Reann's group:
- Germany invades Poland:
- Germany signed nonaggression pact with Poland in 1935
- Lasted for 4 years
- US proclaims Neutrality:
- Roosevelt is president
- trying to protect men
- Pearl Harbor:
- Japan surprise bombs US
- US declares war on the Axis power:
- US declares war on Japan
- declared after Pearl harbor
- Italy and Germany declares war on US:
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