Cont. Brooke Tina Reann’s project:
- D-day:
- Happened on June 6 1944
- Invasion of France to get to Germany
- Air borne and sea borne attack
- At night
- Germany had control
- Gas Chamber at Auschwitz:
- Death camp
- Gave them little food
- Made them work
- Took them down to the gas chambers
- Told them they were taking a shower so they had to take there cloths off
- Killing intensified because of Germany was losing the war
- US Troops cross the Rhine River:
- River to cross to Germany
- Germany already knew because of building of a bridge
- Harry Truman Becomes president:
- FDR became ill
- Harry Truman was vice president for a month ½
- Hitler commits suicide:
- Couldn’t take losing the war so he shot himself
- Wife overdosed
- Germany surrenders to the soviets may 1945:
- Soviet Union takes over Berlin
- US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima:
- In one year 60000 people lose their lives
- The Soviets declare war on Japan Aug. 9, 1945:
- US wasn’t happy because we had just dropped atomic on Nagasaki
- Soviets wanted land in Asia
- US rebuilt Japan
- US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki:
- Dropped on August 9, 1945
- Japan Surrenders, Ending WW2 August 15, 1945:
- Emperor Hirohito surrendered
- We allowed him to keep his emperorship
Lyric and Taylor project:
- German’s invasion of Poland:
- Rounded them up and told them to leave
- Blitzkrieg 1949:
- Designed to overwhelm the enemy
- Used tanks
- Battle of Britain:
- Arial attack
- Attacked at night
- Germany’s first big loss
- Battle of Barbarossa:
- Hitler’s biggest loss
- Pearl harbor:
- Japan bombs US at naval base in Hawaii
- Alamein 1-29: 23-11:
- In northern Africa
- Battled by Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Free French, Australia
- Stalingrad:
- Bloodiest battle in history
- Fought between Germany and Soviet Union in Russia
- Fought in Russian winter
- D-day aka Dooms day:
- Omaha Beach
- June 6th 1946
- Fought in France
- Allied troops from great Britain invade France
- Hitler’s death April 30, 1945:
- Shot himself
- Him and his wife where only married a day
- Eva Brome was his wife
- She killed herself
- Atomic Bomb August 6-9, 1945:
- Bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima
- 60% of the people died in the bombs
- 150,000-246,000 people died instantly or by radiation
Jake F and Austin’s Project:
- The invasion of Poland:
- Didn’t last long for Poland to surrender to Germany
- Pearl Harbor:
- US had entire naval fleet in Hawaii
- Japan hit US with wave after wave of bombs
- Auschwitz:
- German concentration camp
- Killed millions of Jews
- Biggest camp
- Battle of coral sea:
- Between US and Japan
- Down by Australia
- Battle of midway:
- First big victory for US
- US knew that Japan was going to bomb US
- Battle of Stalingrad:
- Hitler’s most major mistake
- At first looked like Germany was going to win
- North Africa campaign:
- Desert war
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