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Rape of Nanking
This was an episode of mass murder and mass rape done by Japanese troops . -
German Blitzkrieg
Hitlers attempt to bomb London trying out new technology. Also known as the lightning war. -
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Fall Of Paris
German forces occupied Paris unopposed on 14 June after a chaotic period of flight of the French government that led to a collapse of the French army -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs U.S. Pearl harbor. -
Bataan Death March
After the surrender in the Bataan Peninsula, 75000 Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65 miles to the prison camps -
Battle Of Stalingrad
successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
D-Day (Normandy)
D-day also know as the Normandy invasion was the initiation of Western alliances attempting to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany -
Battle of The Bulge
Hitler intended to cut through allied forces in order to turn the tide of the war onto Hitler's side. Greatest battle in all american history -
Operation Thunderclap
The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. -
Battle of Iwo Juma
American Invasion in Japan.. Japan being prepared still failed to succeed. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. -
VE day
Nazis fail to succeed, therefore surrender leading US and Great Britain to victory. -
Potsdam Declaration
Is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
President Harry S. Truman was warned that any invasion towards japan may result in American casualties. Enola gay (American bomber) dropped the atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
VJ day was the victory in the Pacific. When japan surrendered.
