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Japanese Invasion of China
Attack on China that occurred when the Chinese resisted against Japanese expansion. Japanese owned a lot of china's land, and China wanted to own their own land. The end result was that Japan got kicked out of China. -
Rape of Nanking
A mass murder and torture of 300,000 to 600,000 In China by the Japanese. They did this due to the war with China, the end result being that the Americans, and Europeans were seen as saviors when they set up safe camps. -
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German Blitzkreig
A period of war where German used a tactic where they used big machines to quickly take over a place. They did this avoid a long war. In the beginning it worked fine, but when America was involved they quickly declined in improvements, and eventually lost a war. -
Fall of Paris
The day that Germans seized Paris. -
Germany's invasion
Hitler sent his troops into Poland in an attempt to take it over for more "living space" for the Germans, as they saw themselves as superior. This is the moment and time when Britain declared war. -
Battle of Midway
This was America's ambush on Japan that stopped the Japanese from fighting them first. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Is considered the greatest battle in the war. It stopped German Advance on the Soviet Union; it had about 2 million casualties. -
Bataan Death March
Invasion of the Philippines by Japan. The march was of the Japanese taking all the people in camps. -
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D-Day
The biggest invasion of the war. It was planned in up-most detail, And the plan was to take back France. -
Operation Gomorrah
Britain got it's revenge on Germany, when they bombed them. They bombed Germany in an attempt to make civilian casualties equal. -
Warsaw ghetto Uprising
German attacked the ghetto, and sent any survivors to concentration camps. -
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Battle of the Bulge
Germans snuck up on the Allie troops. They fought the hardest they could. -
battle of iwo jima
American troops land in Japan, and then battle. The japanese battle tactics were hard to beat. -
Battle of Okinawa
This was the battle that caused the Japanese to start working "suicide missions" -
Dropping of the atomic bombs.
This is the dropping of a bomb on Hiroshima. It killed 80000 people in an instant. The objective was to end the war with japan quickly. It did. -
VE Day
The day germans laid down their weapons, this marked the victory in europe. -
liberation of concentration camps
Soviet Union rescued the first camp, and several others there after and rescued several malnourished prisoners. -
VJ day
This was the victory of japan day. The Japanese suffered the atomic bombs, and this was the day they announced war was over. -
Operation Barbarossa
This was the turning point, due to the fact that it's failure caused Germany to fight a two-front war. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise aerial attack on America.They anticipated U.S. entrance into the war, it ended up sucking the U.S. into war.
