On May 10th Hitler begins his Blitzkrieg on France. Within 3 weeks the British and French soldiers where pushed back to the English Channel The British.

•On May 10th Hitler begins his Blitzkrieg on France.

• Within 3 weeks the British and French soldiers where pushed back to the English Channel

• The British Operation Dynamo was put into effect to evacuate the 330,000 English troops in France back to England

•The French government collapses soon after the attack and Marshal Petain is appointed the new Prime Minister.

•On June 10th Italy Germanys Allie, declared war on France

•By June 11th The French government no longer met in Paris because the fighting was to close instead they met in Briare

•On June 17th Prime Minister Petain announces on the radio “It is with a heavy heart that today we must stop the fighting”.

•When France officially surrendered, Hitler wanted it to happen in the same railroad car Germany Surrendered the first World War in.

•For Hitler and the other Nazis it represented a return of justice to the world.

•In the Armistice the French agreed to dismantle there armed forces and give land north and west to Germany.

•The France surrender was one of the darkest moments in European history.

•In July 1937, Japan invades Northern China and start the expansion of there Empire.

•As the Japanese Empire grew throughout the Pacific they grew worried of an American attack.

•President Roosevelt imposed trade sanctions on Japan to deprive them of raw materials this slowed there advance through the Pacific

•The Japanese Government appointed Admiral Yamamoto to plan an attack to cripple the US navy.

•In The beginning of 1941 Japan secretly built up its Navy and Air Force.

•On November 22 The Japanese fleet left Hitokappu bay under heavy fog and strict radio silence.

•There where 6 carriers and 25 other ships.

•The first Japanese planes arrived at the island just before 8 on December 7th.

•The Primary target of the attack where the US aircraft carriers but they where not at the island on the day of the attack

•The Japanese then focused on the battleships at battleship row.

•On December 8th president Roosevelt addressed congress where he said “ Yesterday December 7th, 1941 a date that will live in infamy”.

•Prior to the Battle of Midway Japan had naval superiority over the US with 4 large aircraft carriers to Americas 3.

•By 1942 US naval intelligence broke the main Japanese code and could predict where they would attack next.

•On May 19th Commander Joseph Rochefort identified Midway island as the primary target of a major offensive planed by the Japanese.

•The Japanese commander was Admiral Yamamoto, the same person who planed the Pearl Harbor attack.

•The US commander was Admiral Spruce.

•The US fleet of 3 aircraft carriers assembled at Point Luck 350 miles away from midway island.

•Early on June 4th the Japanese fleet of 4 aircraft carriers arrived at the island and sent out scout planes but the Japanese scout plains failed to see the American fleet

•The US also sent scout planes and saw the Japanese fleet preparing for an assault on the island.

•When the US scout planes found the Japanese fleet a group of land based B-17’s launched from the island.

•Even though the Americans surprised the Japanese with there early attack no Japanese ships where suck

•After the attack by the B-17’s the Japanese Zero fighters had to be refueled

•Right as the last of the Zeros protecting the Japanese fleet landed another surprise attack from the American aircraft carriers started to begin but it also failed to sink any ships.

•But at 10:22 a wave of Dauntless dive bombers disabled and sunk 3 of the Japanese carriers

•The last Japanese carrier launched a counter attack agents the US fleet and sunk the carrier Yorktown but later that day it was sunk by dive bombers from the island

•The Battle of Stalingrad was fought from the winter of 1942 to early 1943

•General Paulas, who had seen victory throughout Russia, was ordered by Hitler to take the city of Stalingrad

•When the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin herd of the emanate attack on the city he ordered General Chuikov not to let the city fall to the Germans under any circumstances.

•The Blitzkrieg had already destroyed most of the Russian defenses protecting the city but General Chuikov had a new strategy to stop the Germans

•His strategy was make the Germans fight for every inch of the city in grueling hand to hand combat

•The first attack on the city was done by the German air force or the Luftwaffe, the intense bombing of the city caused huge firestorms.

•75% of the city was destroyed by the bombings, before any German solders entered the city.

•The Germans had hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery but they couldn’t be used due to the Russians fighting so close to German troops.

•The Germans thought the fight for the city would be over quickly but fighting grew worse after every passing day.

•3 months after the fighting began the Germans finally reached the Volga river that had been supplying the Russians and isolated the Russians into 2 pockets.

•With there backs to the Volga the Russians went into the sewers of the city to fight.

•Even though the Germans had captured 90% of the city fierce fighting continued in the northern factory regions of the city.

•Most of the Russians defending the city weren't solders but factory workers defending there homes

•Instead of launching an attack across the Volga the Germans decided to focus on the city.

•This allowed the soviets to build up a huge force to counter attack with

•On November 19th during a heavy snowstorm the Soviets attacked the week northern front and imminently broke through the German lines.

•On November 20th a second Russian attack broke through the German front to the south of the city.

•On November 30th met up and completely surrounded the German army.

•On February 4th, after months of his troops starving and freezing due to the harsh Russian winter General Paulas surrendered to the Russians agents Hitler's will.

•Soon after he knew there was no hope for the battle, Hitler promoted General Paulas to Field Marshal because no German Field Marshal had ever been taken prisoner and Hitler wanted Paulas to take his own life.

•Most historians consider the Battle of Stalingrad the turning point of WWII in Europe because after the battle the “invincible” German army went on the defensive and never stopped the Russians from taking Berlin.

•In 1942 German High Command anticipated an Ally invasion of France so a construction of concrete walls, minefields and fortified artillery emplacements called the Atlantic wall where made along the English Channel.

•Hitler appointed Field Marshal Rommel in command of army group B and the responsibility of defending Normandy.

•The Allies called the invasion of Normandy Operation Overlord.

•It consisted of 150,000 men and 500 ships.

•General Eisenhower was put in command of Operation overlord by the Allies.

•General Eisenhower sent in paratroopers behind the beaches the night before the landings.

•40 minuets of heavy bombardment was supposed to be followed by the landings but a heavy storm blew in on the scheduled invasion day of June 2nd.

•The landings had to be done during low tide so the beach obstacles could be seen.

•Eisenhower saw a break in the weather on June 6th and decided to go head with the invasion.

•There where 5 beach heads where the Allies invaded.

•Utah and Omaha where American beaches.

•Sword and Gold where English beaches.

•Juno was invaded by a mixed group of American Canadian and British troops.

•The first wave of Americans landed at Utah beach an 6:30 am.

•The first outlook of the attack on Omaha beach was so bad General Bradley thought about calling the invasion off

•But the Germans where pushed back and the US took the beach

•The planed invasion point of Utah Beach was so heavily defended the invasion was moved 200 miles south

•Utah beach looked bad at first but like on Omaha beach the Germans where pushed inland.

•In the days after D-Day the beach heads quickly expanded

•General George Patton was chosen to lead the “ the Breakout” or the liberation of France.

•The landings in Normandy changed the Germans moral they felt defeated and started to challenge Hitler.

•D-Day started the Allied advance towards Germany and eventually led to Germany surrendering.

•After the War in Europe ended Japan knew they could not keep fighting.

•The Americans didn’t want to launch a full scale invasion of Japan because the Japanese people had been told if they didn’t take an American soldier with them they didn’t disserve to die for the Emperor.

•On August 6th The Americans dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

•It was called little boy because it was long and skinny, it was made out of uranium.

•On August 9th Russia attacked the week Japanese occupation force in Manchuria.

•Also on August 9th the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

•It was called Fat Man because it was shorter and fatter then the Uranium bomb, it was made out of plutonium.

• Only after 2 of Japans biggest cities where destroyed did they finally surrender.

•On September 2 1945 Japan signed the Instrument of surrender.

•It was only 8 paragraphs long and said that Japan must stop fighting.

•It was signed on the US battleship USS Missouri.

•General Douglas Macarthur accepted the surrender for the Allies.

•After the surrender most of the Japanese surrendered as ordered but some didn’t.

•Those that didn’t where slaughtered.

•Some Japanese troops tried to surrender to the Russians but the Russians didn’t accept the surrender.

•The Russian dictator Joseph Stalin want to take as much land as he could before the war ended.

•The fighting between the Russians and the Japanese didn’t stop for 2 more weeks.

•The Nuremburg trials began on November 20th 1945 and lasted through 1946

•There where Judges from the US, France, England, and the Soviet Union.

•The trials where held in Nuremburg Germany at the Palace of Justice, the same place where the laws dehumanizing Jews where passed.

•There where 22 of the most high ranking Nazis at the trials.

•After Hitler, Gobbles and Hilmar committed suicide Herman Georing was the highest ranking Nazi left.

•The trial was going to be held in Berlin but there wasn’t a prison in the city because the prison had been bombed.

•The Crimes where divided into 3 groups crimes agents humanity, crimes agents peace, and war crimes.

•The war crimes where murder, ill treatment of prisoners and civilians slave labor, killing of hostages and plunder of public and private property.

•The crimes agents humanity where murder, extermination, enslavement, and unjust deportation.

•The crimes agents peace where conspiracy to commit crimes, waging a war of aggression and breaking international treads.

•The Nazi medical experiments on Jews fell into the crimes agents peace.

•The medical experiments the Nazis preformed on Jews where exposure to low pressure and freezing cold, seawater purification experiments, typhus vaccine research, mass sterilization, and bone transplant experiments

•Some of the medial experiments fell into the crimes agents peace due to the Geneva Convention.

•Hermann Georing pleaded not guilty but was found guilty of crimes agents peace, war crimes, crimes agents humanity and conspiracy to commit crimes.

•He was sentenced to death by hanging but committed suicide in his cell before he could be executed.

•Before he died he said he didn’t regret anything he said or did.

•9 other Nazis where sentenced to death by hanging.

•2 where found not guilty.

•The other 10 where given prison time ranging from 10 years to life.

•The first plane to break the speed of sound was the Bell X-1

•On October 14th 1947 Captain Chuck Yeager flew Mach 1.06 or 700 miles per hour.

•The plane was air launched at 23,000 feet from the bomb bay of a B-29.

•When the B-29 reached the launching altitude it went into a shallow dive to reach the launch speed of 250 miles per hour.

•The X-1 had 4 rocket engines that could be fired separately or at the same time.

•After dropping from the B-29 Captain Yeager lit all 4 rocket engines and climbed to 42,000 feet and shut off 2 of the engines.

•When he was at the test altitude of 45,000 feet he relit the other 2 engines.

•He reached Mach 1.06 and glided back to bace.

•It was years before any other country could break the sound barrier because of the X-1’s revolutionary new features.

•The nose of the plane was modeled after a .50 caliber bullet

•The tail of the X-1 was also adjustable in flight witch was also a new design.

•There where different models of the X-1,

•After WWII Germany was divided among the US, France, Brittan and the soviet union.

•Berlin was deep inside the Soviet section but it was also divided among the Allies.

•Berlin was divided by the Berlin wall.

•Russia wanted to redivide Germany so they would get more land so they started the blockade to force a negotiation.

•On the night of June 23rd the Russian government closed all the roads and railroads going through the soviet sector to West Berlin.

•The next morning electricity to the city was shut off.

•That left 2.5 million people without food or power.

•But the main airport of the city was in the American sector of the city so the Western Allies plan was to feed the city through the air.

•But the only planes available to do the airlift where C-47s and they could only carry 3.5 tones apiece and the city needed 1,534 tones of food and supplies every day to survive.

•Missions had to be flown 24 hours every day but West Berlin survived.

•In May 1949 the blockade was lifted, 320 days after it started

•The soviets failed to force democracy out of Germany.

•Before WWII China was engaged in a Civil war

•The traditional Nationalist led by Jiang Jiejhi.

•And the Communist Led by Mao Zedong.

•But during WWII China was occupied by Japan and a unified China fought on the side of the Allies.

•But after WWII ended the civil war started again in 1946.

•At first the Nationalist had the advantage due to US support but The Soviet Union quickly supported the communist.

•The Communist gained support from the poor Chinese farmers because they promised better qualities of life.

•The nationalist did little for the poor and had corrupt leadership and a failing economy.

•Even though the Nationalist army outnumbered the Communist 3:1 the Communist won the civil war.

•Thousands of Nationalist fled to the Communist and the Nationalist government fled to Taiwan to keep the Nationalist spirit alive.

•The Chinese Civil War effected the cold war greatly because of the new alliance of China and Russia