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Event
	⁃	Who
	⁃	What
	⁃	Where
	⁃	When
	⁃	Why
	⁃	Significance

Invasion of Poland
	⁃	France and Germany
	⁃	German invasion on Poland
	⁃	Warsaw, Poland
	⁃	September 1, 1939
	⁃	Annex western half of Poland
	⁃	France and Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939

German Invasion of France
	⁃	France and Germany
	⁃	Germany made many moves to take France
	⁃	Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
	⁃	Began on May 10, 1940
	⁃	France declared war on Germany, they took it personally
	⁃	France becomes fully taken over

Battle of Britain
	⁃	Great Britain and Germany
	⁃	Germany's attack on Britain
	⁃	Great Britain
	⁃	Began at the end of June, 1940
	⁃	Great Britain declared war on Germany, they took it personally
	⁃	"The Battle of Britain taught the Allies a crucial lesson. Hitler's attacks could be blocked"

German Invasion of the Soviet Union
	⁃	Germany and USSR
	⁃	Operation Barbarossa
	⁃	USSR
	⁃	June 22, 1941
	⁃	Hitler believed communism was a Jewish conspiracy, and the USSR was communist (src: http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks4/the-final-solution/from-invasions-to-murder/why-did-hitler-order-the-invasion-of-the-soviet-union/#.WNJvoIH3aaN)
	⁃	Germany lost half a million men

Pearl Harbor
	⁃	Japan
	⁃	Bombing of US land
	⁃	Pearl Harbor
	⁃	December 7, 1941
	⁃	Japan didn't want the US interfering in their attacks in the Pacific
	⁃	Brought the US into WWII

US Declaration of War
	⁃	United States
	⁃	Deflation of War against Japan and its allies
	⁃	Capital building, Washington, DC
	⁃	Mid-December, 1941
	⁃	To retaliate against the Pearl Harbor attack
	⁃	US involvement in WWII

Battle of Stalingrad
	⁃	Germany and Russia
	⁃	German attack on Stalingrad
	⁃	Stalingrad
	⁃	August 23, 1942
	⁃	Germany just wanted to get at Russia
	⁃	Russia began pushing Germany and over one million German soldiers were lost

D-Day
	⁃	Allied troops
	⁃	Operation Overload planned to attack German-controlled France
	⁃	Normandy
	⁃	June 6, 1944
	⁃	Liberate German controlled territories
	⁃	Germany lost a lot of land and the Allie had an easy way into Germany

German Surrender
	⁃	Germany
	⁃	Surrender
	⁃	Berlin
	⁃	May 7, 1945
	⁃	Berlin was surrounded
	⁃	Directly lead to the end of WWII

Battle of Midway
	⁃	Japan
	⁃	Attacks on Midway Island (about 1500 miles to the west of Hawaii)
	⁃	Midway Island
	⁃	June 4, 1942
	⁃	Japan wanted to draw the US Fleet out of Pearl Harbor
	⁃	Japanese forces were crushed

Liberation of the Philippines
	⁃	US and Japan
	⁃	Battle to get Japan out of the Philippines
	⁃	The Philippines
	⁃	October 22, 1944
	⁃	US wanted their territory back
	⁃	A strong force against Japan

Battle of Okinawa
	⁃	US and Japan
	⁃	US attack on Japanese island
	⁃	Okinawa
	⁃	April 1, 1945
	⁃	US wanted Japan bye, bye
	⁃	A lot of Japanese casualties

Japanese Surrender
	⁃	US and Japan
	⁃	Japan's surrender
	⁃	Tokyo Bay, aboard the Missouri
	⁃	September 2, 1945
	⁃	The US dropped two nuclear bombs on their citizens
	⁃	Ended the second World War

Holocaust
	⁃	Germany, Jews, and other minority groups
	⁃	Mass killing of Jews and other minority groups
	⁃	Germany
	⁃	1939
	⁃	Idea was originally created by Hitler to gain support
	⁃	Germany was very hated but other countries, and millions died in this genocide