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italian invasion of Ethiopia
the Italian Fascist invasion. The Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’ took power in 1922. He made the decision to invade Ethiopia. They attacked from both Eritrea and Italian Somalia. -
Spanish Cvil War
The Spanish Civil War started in 1936 and finished in 1939.They wanted to put their faith in a military dictatorship who were General Franco and Sanjurjo. They were known as Nationalists.
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rape of Nanjing in China
By December 1937, Japanese forces had reached Nanjing, which was then the capital of China. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were killed, often quite brutally. the Japanese forces committed a number of things along the way, murdering civilians along with soldiers, setting fire to homes, and beating Chinese civilians. -
German annexation of the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was part of Germany until 1806 and of the German Confederation between 1815 and 1866. After the first world war sudetenland became part of Czechoslovakia. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.2 ,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack.. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939. -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
Sworn to defend Poland honoring these obligations, the two countries sent ultimatums to Hitler demanding his withdrawal from Poland.Great Britain & France had a treaty with Poland that stated if a nation invaded any of the three treaty nations, it was the same as invading all three nations. So when Germany invaded Poland, it was as if Germany had invaded Great Britain & France also -
Pearl harbor
Surprise attack on the U.S. fleet would make the Americans petition for peace, leaving the Pacific open for Japanese expansion.One hundred and eighty-three aircraft took part in the first wave of the Japanese attack.The wreckage at Pearl Harbor's Naval Air Station after the attack, in which 347 U.S. planes were destroyed or damaged. -
El-Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two.El Alamein was a last stand for the Allies in North Africa. -
Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal took place in 1942 when the US Marines landed on August 7th. The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed - but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition. -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe.The Battle for Stalingrad was fought during the winter of 1942 to 1943.His primary task was to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus and to do this, Paulus was ordered by Hitler to take Stalingrad. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. The D-Day more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler. -
Philippines (battle of manila)
In the battle the entire Spanish squadron was sunk, including the cruisers Maria Cristina and Castilla, gunboats Don Antonio de Ulloa.The Americans suffered 9 wounded; the Spanish 161 dead and 210 wounded. -
Yalta Conference
It brought together the Big Three Allied leaders. During this conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. The Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by each of the three nations present -
The end of of war in Europe
Germany collapsed under the combined assault of allied forces.The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender took place in late April and early May 1945. -
Dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima
On the small, volcanic island of Iwo Jima, the United States had taken 26,000 casualties, including 6,800 deaths. The city was destroyed. After the war, Supreme Allied Headquarters estimated that 129,558 were killed, wounded or missing as a result of the blast. Yet, this was not enough to persuade the Japanese leadership to surrender. -
Dropping of atomic bomb on nagasaki
American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days.It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely destroyed the city.the american more atomic weapons would be used "again and again" to destroy the country unless they ended the war forthwith. -
The end of the war in Asia
The surrender of Japan in August 1945 brought hostilities in World War II to a close.By August 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy had effectively no capacity to conduct operations, and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. -
Nuremberg Trails
The nuremberg were a series of trials, or tribunals, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The first and best known of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT), which tried 22 of the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany.
