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World War Two - Coggle Diagram

- - - - German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
        
        Operation Barbarossa (1941)
        
        Pearl Harbor (1941)
        
        Wannsee Conference (1942)
        
        Battle of Midway (1942)
        
        Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
        
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        The Battle of Midway started with four Japanese task forces sailing to Midway from Japan. One task force was charged with invading the Aleutian Islands while the remaining three took on Midway Island itself and had to take down any responding US Naval fleet. The Japanese had wanted to take over the Islands from the US. The four task forces left Japan on May 28th, 1942. It was not until the 3rd and 4th of June that the action began. On the 3rd, the Northern Task Force started its plans to take over the Aleutian Islands, and on the 4th, at 4:00 AM, the bombing commenced. The first bombing of the Midway Islands caused heavy losses for the American fighter aircraft. By the time the second attack starts, the US begins to reciprocate the attacks with dive bombers and torpedo planes. As one of the Japanese aircraft was refueling, the USS Yorktown had launched US torpedo planes at them. Vice-Admiral Nagumo, the one in charge of the fleet, reacted by changing course, successfully evading the 1st USN wave. The first US wave (including the USN Devastator) is shot down within six minutes, concluding the US attacks by 10:00 AM. However, the follow-up attack went in the US's direction, filled with 37 dive bombers all armed to the teeth and fully fueled. They found the three Japanese carriers -Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi- and struck and sunk all three of them. An IJN bomber found and attacked the USS Yorktown shortly after, severely damaging it, but it still stood firm. The Yorktown crew had abandoned the ship, and Yorktown was being towed by USN ships, but it was later targeted and sunk by a Japanese submarine. In the meantime, the Imperial Japanese carrier, Hiryu, was set ablaze by the USS Enterprise, which then intentionally sank itself. The Battle of Midway ended with the Island of Kiska and Attu were taken over by Japanese forces.
        
        The Wannsee Conference was a brutal conference held by the Nazis to discuss what to do with the "Jewish question." It was also called the "Final Solution." About 17 high-ranked Nazi party officials met together to talk about how they should deal with all of the Jewish people that resided in Europe. There were different solutions that The Nazi party officials brought up during the conference; sterilization of all Jewish individuals and deportation to Madagascar. Reinhard Heydrich came up with concentration camps to send all the Jewish people to and work them to the bone. At first thought foolish, the idea became a reality, and gas chambers were later added to speed up the process of killing them off. The apparent effects caused by the Wannsee Conference was the creation of concentration camps, which killed millions of Jewish people throughout the years of the war.
        
        The Japanese had a plan to take over the islands in the Pacific Ocean throughout the early decades of the 20th century, but as years went by, they lost more and more land custody. One place, in particular, was viewed to be a threat for their inquiring of land, one of the Hawaiian islands, Pearl Harbor. Pre-bombing, the Imperial Army of Japan was given naval ships to complete the assault by countries with a treaty. The weapons used were considered advanced for the times, with deadly torpedoes and more lethal bombs for the planned assault. As the naval fleets were on their way to the Hawaiian Islands, a few Japanese diplomats headed to Washington to declare war on the US. By the time Americans on the mainland reached the declaration, it was too late to stop or communicate with the people of Hawaii about the impending attack, for all communications had been too late to reach them in time. When the Japanese aircraft took formation on the Hawaii radar, they were mistaken for a US aircraft trying to land. Instead of the planned attack, the Japanese aircraft decided to crash down into the harbor, surprising all Hawaiians. Many US ships were hit and down for the count. By the time the second wave came, the US could defend more than during the first wave, but much damage still transpired. The total amount of lives lost was 2,403, and the number of US ships lost was somewhere in the 200s. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the attack that led to the US joining the Ally forces against the Axis.
        
        Operation Barbarossa began on June 22nd, 1941, inciting the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. The Nazis wanted Soviet land for accessible army advancements and people for forced labor. The Axis forces rallied together, marching over 3.8 million people towards Moscow to fight the Soviet Union's 2.9 million men and women and capture the capital. There were three-axis groups with different objectives. Army Group North had to take the city of Leningrad, Army Group Center had to take Smolensk (and Moscow), and Army Group South had to go to Ukraine and take the Caucasus. Though the Germans had the element of surprise, the Soviet Union began to fight back, stalling the Axis forces just outside of Moscow. Hitler himself stopped the original plan to invade Moscow. He was happier to take over the Soviet Union through economic failure than through invasion and more murder. Operation Barbarossa was the leading operation before the Battle of Moscow, which ran from October of 1941 to January 1942.
        
        The German Blitzkrieg was not one specific event; it was a fighting style performed by the Nazi forces. Blitzkrieg in German means "lightning war" and was a fighting style heavily used by Germany. The way of Blitzkrieg is to focus forces on one particular spot instead of dispersing the artillery. The Germans used this style a lot to overpower and conquer their enemies. During the Netherlands and Belgium invasion, instead of surrounding the armored borders, Nazi forces went through the Ardennes Forest and brutally smashed through the Allies' defenses. The Germans used this way of fighting after they concluded the Schlieffen Plan from World War 1 was not an acceptable way of combating the Allies. Fighting the Allies through Blitzkrieg was how the Axis managed to control Poland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Blitzkrieg's use, being how the Axis took over Poland, is what started World War Two.
      - The invasion of Poland is well known as the final straw and what kick-started World War II. Adolph Hitler wanted to gain Poland on their side to give the Soviet Union incentive to aid them and the slave labor they could use from the Poles. Before Germany invaded Poland, the UK and France gave them an ultimatum; leave Poland alone or prepare for war. When German soldiers marched into the country, it was then that on September 3rd/5th that France, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa all declared war on Germany. The invasion of Poland was not the first time Hitler had gone against the rules set in place about where German soldiers could be (Czechoslovakia, for example). Poland's invasion's apparent effects were World War II, but there are also thousands of Poles wounded and killed.