15 major events of World War II

skiah2489

skiah2489

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i have to make this timeline of the 15 most important things from 1936-1945......

ive googled it, but there are sooooo many events...

so does anyone know what the 15 major ones are?
 
gah to summarize WW2 into 15 major events is a slap in the face to veterans abroad but ill throw a few your way. D-Day, V-Day, VJ-Day, Battle Of Britain, Battle of Midway, Liberation of Auswitz or any other concentration camp, suicide of Hitler and Eva, The failure of Operation Barabossa(Sp?) and the turn around at Stalingrad, The detonation of Little boy and Fat Boy (nuclear bombs). Do your research, read some books its not hard to find the information your looking for.
 
ok so what about the 3 other beaches? Its typical of Americans to only concentrate on the areas where they lost lives, I bet you have never heard of Sword beach, gold beach and Juno Beach
 
when hitler invaded polland. man, i wish i could take over a country that quick.

nah, really though - i fought in that war, and everything they're teaching you is lies.

(i'm getting bored, so don't mind me)
 
german blitzkrieg, germany signs non aggression pact with soviet union, germany invades soviet union, d-day, yalta conference, atomic bombs dropped on japan, allied troops liberate concentration camps, teheran conference...to name a few
 
Ya look into the tactics behind the Blitzkreig (Lighting War) It really was something special
 
Its hard to look at the war just from a US perspective but most of their involvement was in the far East (Asia). Your gonna have to look extensively into the events of Pearl Harbor (look at it from both sides dont be biased) and I would also suggest checking into the Battle of Midway (very important turnaround for the states). It would also be a good idea to look at the Fall of the Phillipenes.
 
since its for us history, look up atlantic charter, lend-lease act, manhattan project, neutrality acts, quarantine speech, peacetime conscription (draft), japanese internment and subsequent court cases, "europe first" policy
 
man, fuck that shit. too much shit about the u.s.

sorry, i'm bitter. ALL HAIL THE U.S. THEY ARE OUR SAVIOURS!!! is that better?
 
Put the Lend-Lease act in there, crap like that always seems to play well in history class.
 
I knew all of this like the back of my hand three or months ago, last term... and know I've forgotten.

If this is a high school class, your best friend is Wikipedia (and then add real sources but that you didn't check).
 
how about when the russians stopped the germans at stalingrad, that helped us a lot because i don't think we were ever planning on sending troops into russia
 
can't think of the act but the lessening of issolationism on the U.S. behalf in order to more greatly help G.B. and clearly bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki SP?
 
My friend Rob admitely boasted that he could take over Canada with a plastic knife, then i showed him Assault and he decsided it would be alot harder then he'd thought.

^truth
 
August 6, 1945. When Germany dropped the bomb on Japan.

I actually had this dumb friend of mine believing me when I told him that. then this other girl who is supposed to be smart thought that the movie Dr. Strangelove was based on a true story
 
germany invades poland

japan invades china

japan bombs pearl harbor

us declares war

d-day

hiroshima/nagasaki

battle of the bulge

fdr dies

hitler dies

liberation of berlin

midway

guatalcanal

iwo jima

ve day

stalingrad

not in any specific order, but maybe it will help.
 
um. blitzkrieg into poland.

english+french declare war with germany.

germany and russia sign non-aggression pact.

germany invades denmark/holland.

germany invades russia codenamed operation barbarossa

russia declares war on germany.

japan invades china-rape of nanjing.

pearl harbor- U.S. enters war.

victory over rommel in north africa led by monty and patton-montecasino

russians succeed in battle of stalingrad+ keep germans out of moscow.

d-day successful

iwo jima

battle of the buldge

germany falls apart- hitler dies.

2 h-bombs in japan after roosevelt dies

VE-Day in both theaters
 
just pick a bunch of random events it's not like theyr gonna say "no, thats not important" unless part of the assignment is to back up why theyr important
 
Iwo Jima, Okinawa most deaths in a war considered amount of people dying. at okinawa i think 100% of the japanese soliders where killed, there were 18,000 on the island there were 18,500 japanese dead
 
well this is totally irellevant (can't spell), but yesterday my teacher asked why i didn't do my homework, and i just stared back at him, and we stared in the middle of class for about 13 seconds, and then he moved on w/o marking me down as missing homework. anyway, i'm just starting WWII now, so i could prob use some help too. lemme know how the timeline goes.
 
I'm a big history buff, so if you're going to take ANYbody's advice, take mine. I aint going to do a massive intro to all of these, they all should be easy.

15. Dieppe

14. Guadocanal

13. Battle of the Bulge

12. Czechoslovakian occupation and sudetenland (you will get bonus points for this if you make your argument strong enough, real wild card. Germans used Czech Skoda tanks against France and Russia).

11. Taranto massacre, Italian navy is crippled.

10. Miracle at Dunkirk

9. Stalins Scorched Earth policy instated.

8. Operation Barbarossa, Nazi invasion of soviet union.

7. Midway

6. Pearl Harbour

5. Operation Overlord, AKA D-Day

4. Battle of Britain

3. December 19th, 1941. Hitler takes full control of armed forces (beginning of the end)

2. Stalingrad

1. By FAR the most important event in WW2, Hiroshima.
 
what about when the soviets blew up that bomb that was the largets bomb ever detonated, or ever will be detonated. before they signed that banm on bomb testing... it had teh equivelent of 100,000,000 tonnes of tnt i think.
 
i have heard of those beaches and my grandpa was on the Beaches on June 6th, 1944 and probably wouldnt appreciate you critizing the job Americans did. You even said it earlier that it is a slap in the face to summerize WWII in 15 events, well isnt it a slap in the face to critize relatives of people who were there and the actual people who were there.
 
What on earth are you talking about? Operation overlord wouldnt have suceeded, and you're grandaddy would be long dead if there was only 1 beach for the germans to protect instead of 5. It was a joint effort for canadians, americans, and british. For everybody who would rather say "omaha" then "d-day", the only thing you pbly know about war is from what you have seen in saving private ryan.

And without Dieppe for a guideline, d-day would have been an enormous failure. So you can thank canadian and british commandos for that.

It might be hard for you to believe, but we all had grandfathers. All of a sudden, your grandad's Omaha is more important than that of the combined Juno, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Omaha? I fail to see the logic in that.
 
thats a really good list,but I honestly dont think hiroshima was that important to WWII. The war was pritty much over by then, and Japan was already making attempts to surrender. Just the Americans wanted to prove to the USSR that they had an Atomic bomb and werent afraid to use. And they wanted to end their treaty with the USSR. Yes it officially ended the war in the south pacific but I think had they waited a little while longer after dropping the first bomb Japan would have ended it, it was obivious they were gunna lose.

Stalingrad, was the moment with the most impact in the war because it pushed the German's back at a time when they were a huge world threat.
 
so does that make them braver and better than any other country that fought on the beaches? Maybe you'd have to go there and check it out for yourself to realize what ever country involved in the war did. Dont be ignorant.
 
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