Covert operation

To begin with, strategy was a big part of the Allies defeating the Axis powers. The Invasion of Normandy stands as the largest amphibious invasion in history. The Allies came together to fight with France in the taking back of France. The Nazi party was stationed in Normandy, France and was due for a fight with a country at sometime, due to the problems it gave all of mainland Europe, as it broke treaties and dominated countries not belonging to them. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Austria, The…

On June 6th, 1944, towards the end of a horrific war, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in order to stop the advance of the German army. This operation was known as D-Day and it was the biggest turning point of World War II. Even 40 years after this battle, Ronald Reagan gave a speech commemorating the men who helped liberate Europe. He spoke to the American people about how not only did these soldiers fight for our nations, but also for freedom. Ronald Reagan, in his speech “On the…

During World War II, the invasion of Germany caused an evacuation of the British and French soldiers at Dunkirk, France. The evacuation of Dunkirk was also known as “Operation Dynamo”. The Operation Dynamo lasted nine days from May 26, 1940 to June 4, 1940. Since they weren’t enough ships to transport too many soldiers, the British asked all civilians to lend them any type of ship, so they could evacuate as many soldiers as they could. The battle of Dunkirk, France was a defeat for the British…

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto, Chil Rajchman’s The Last Jew of Treblinka, and Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz are the accounts of three Jewish people who experienced the German’s answer to the Jewish problem from their particular time and place of the “Final Solution”. Sierakowiak’s diary was written while he was living in the Lodz Labor Ghetto with his family and died before he was deported. Rajchman’s and Lengyel’s…

Everyone in their lifetime has either had a scrape or cut somewhere on their extremities, that have ranged from minor to severe. If not treated properly, those simple cuts and scrapes could easily lead to major infections. Although, today many cuts and scrapes do not become infections, there was once a time that even the simplest, little cut could kill you. History has shown that many deaths have come from deadly infections or other bacteria related incidents. Over the years, there have been…

During the fifth year of the Second World War (1944), the Allied forces were planning the blueprints for the largest naval, air, and infantry invasion in the history of the world. This offensive was deemed the codename “Operation Overlord,” better known to the public as The Battle of Normandy. There were three major Allied countries involved in the invasion of D-day: The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America. The invasion would begin with a heavy bombardment of German-held…

every individual, which also means 100 percent participation with no choice. Question 4…. Operations management is defined as management activities that are concerned with transforming and converting resources into goods and services and distributing them to the customers. The activities are carried out as efficiently and effectively as possible to maximise the profit of an organisation. The operations manager will be responsible in schefenacker for data entry, accounts payable, payroll,…

Many events made Hitler very successful in exporting war and terror. With little to no resistance from major European power, and the United States, primarily staying out of the conflict the Nazi regime easily infiltrated much of Europe and the Soviet Union. Had the Ally forces stepped up early in the war, it may have saved millions of innocent lives and countries from German control. With the victory of Poland under Hitler’s belt, and many more able-bodied fighters for Nazi military, he was…

The Battle of Stalingrad took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943 and is considered one of the most important battles that took place during World War II. The battle was between the German and Soviet armies. Not directly, but due to the betrayal of a non aggression pact between the Soviets and Germans, the two were thrown into battle over Stalingrad. The Germans believed they would be on the winning side but that is not how it ended. The Soviets proved stronger than the Germans were…

Battles Socials 11 Lesson 2 Who, What, Where, When, Why/How Blitzkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Is a military tactic that was used by german troops in the second world war The term Blitzkrieg refers to “lightening war” which was designed to create disarray amongst enemy forces through firepower The Phony War: September 1939 - April 1940 The Phoney War was a period of time during the Second World War when no major battles took place and there was little fighting During this period, Great Britain…