Wednesday, March 28th

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

  • Hitler ordered troops to surround Leningrad and cut off supplies
  • Invaded Stalingrad
  • Largest military battle in history
  • Wanted to invade and conquer to have a place for pure Germans to live
  • wanted farmland and oil
  • He didn't like Stalin or Communists

13. Battle in Africa and Italy

  • First place was Africa that US invaded
  • Operation torch was the invasion of Africa.
  • We invaded in Morocco
  • Tank warfare was really common.
  • Italy was the second place the US as well Canada invaded
  • Gained control of Sicily, Naples, Rome, and Applielles Mountains
  • Italy had to surrender.

14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley

  • George Marshall was Chief of Staff of the USMilitary during WWII
  • Won the Nobel Peace Prize for War efforts and Marshall plan
  • Dwight Eisenhower was the supreme commander of all ally troops
  • President of the US after WWII

15. D-Day-Operation Overlord

16. Battle of the Bulge

17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over

18. VE Day

19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,

20. Navajo Code Talkers

21. Doolittle's Raid

22. Manhattan Project

23. Hiroshima bombing

24. Nagasaki bombing

25. VJ Day

26. Yalta Conference

27. Nuremburg Trials

28. Japanese Internment Camps in US

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