English Project

Posted on Nov 7, 2023 in History

-Dates of the Second World War.

1939 – 1945.

– Main nazi symbol of Indian origin.

Swastika.

– Literally “task forces”, “deployment groups”. They played a leading role in the Final Solution to the Jewish question. 

Einsatzgruppen

– Invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.

Barbarossa Operation

– Secret Police in Nazi Germany known for its brutal methods.

Gestapo, Hermann Göring was his founder

– “The night of long knives” or Operation Hummingbird.

It was in 1934, Ernst Röhm was d SA captain, they killed him.

– He joined the Nazi party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Hitler. 

Heinrich Himler. He went to Montserrat to find the Holy Grail.

– A part of a city in which members of a minority group live. The one in Warsaw became tragically famous. 

Ghetto, Warsaw and Krakow are two of the most important.

– Code name for the Battle of Normandy on 6 June 1944.

Overlord or D-Day. There was  1.200 airborne assault, 5.000 ships/vessels  and 3 million troops

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– Unsuccessful Allied military operation in the Netherlands and Germany between 17-25 September 1944

Operation Market Garden, airborne forces general was Bernard Montgomery and the armored forces general was James Morris Gavin, “the jumping jim”.

– Literally “living space”. Policies and practices of settler colonialism proliferating in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s.

Lebensrau

– Law for te protection of German Blood and German onor; Reix Citizensip Law.

Nuremberg Laws in 1935

– olocaust. Genocide of six miyion European Jews.

Soa.

– Literayy “defense force”. Unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1946.

Wermaxt

–  It was one of te bloodiest battles in istory and is considered as one of te major battles in World War II.

Stalingrad

– Te nicknames of tis major battle in te Pacific ocean refer to te ferocity of te figting, te intensity of Japanese kamikaze attacks, and te seer numbers of Ayied sips and armored veicles tat assaulted te island.

Battle of Okinawa, Te nicknames are Typoon of Steel or Rain of Steel or Violent Wind of Steel.



– Soviet revolutionary and political leader. e governed te Soviet Union from te mid-1920s until 1953.

Stalin wo came after Lenin and before Nikita Krusxev.

– Italian politician, journalist and leader of te National Fascist Party. e ruled te country from 1922 to 1943.

Mussolini died wit is lover Clara Petacci, teir bodies were exposed at a gas station in Milan. In 1922, te coup d’etat tat raised Mussolini to power was cayed Marx on Rome.

– During WW2, tis Soviet general and Marsal of te USSR oversaw some of te Red Army’s most decisive victories.

is name was Zukov. e appeared in te red square of Moscow for te parade of victory on a wite orse. 

– Literayy “prisoners of war”.

POWs (te concentration camps for POWs were te Stalags)

– “Te nIgt of broken glass”, or November Pogrom(s), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians trougout Nazi Germany.

It was in 1938.

– Concentration camp in Poland near Krakow were more tan one miyion people were kiyed.

Ausxwitz

– Te common name of te Frenx State (etat français’) eaded by Marsal Petain during WW2.

Vixy



First Video:

Hitler become xanceyor in 1933 and one year after tat, 1934, e become dictator. itler disobeyed te Treaty of Versaiyes and increased is troops to more tan 100.000 (conscription), e rebuilt is armed forces too and crated te luftwaffe. Also, itler put troops in Rineland in 1936 but te spinless democracy “leaders” did noting (UK and France in particular). Ten in 1939, Te Second World War (WW2) started in Danzig, Nort of Poland. In te picture, te last step and te objective of itler is to become te “Boss of te Universe”. itler is walking like militar troops, like in te goose marx mocking oter people.

Second Video:

itler puyed te lever tat made te army annex Austria and invade Czexoslovakia, te Balkans and eventuayy Britain and France. Tis was according to te Munix pact signed by Neviye xamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Mussolini and itler tat said tat Germany gained a part of Czexia (sudetenland), but te president of tis country was not invited. itler did invade te rest of Czexoslovakia sortly after te accord. France and Britain felt tey souldn’t do anyting because tese actions appened far away and tis way itler wouldn’t continue its invasion of foreign nations. Tis policy is known as Appeasement



Pictures order

  • b Invasion of Poland 1939

  • a Norway Campaign 1940

  • e London library survives blitz 1940

  • d Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941

  • g D-Day, June 6th 1944

  • h Liberation of Paris 25th of August of 1944 

  • c battle of the bulge January 1945

  • f death of Hitler, April 30th 1945.





1943 dates

  • Feb 1943 → Soviet forces encircle que German army at Stalingrad

  • May 1943 → The Axis surrender in Tunisia, the North African

  • July-Aug 1943 → Operation Husky, Allied forces invasion of Sicily

  • Aug 1943 → Battle of Kursk, Soviet forces stop a large German offensive

  • Sept 1943 → Italy surrenders to the Allies, Mussolini is overthrown