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Japanese invasion of china
Japanese invasion of china started when china tried to stop the spread of Japanese influence on its territories. japan tried to end the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. this led to japan invading large areas of eastern china until the end of world war 2 which was lost to the allies. https://www.britannica.com/event/Sino-Japanese-War-1937-1945 image https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/37/127037-004-6C956756.jpg -
rape of Nanking
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Germany's invasion of poland
the German/soviet pact stated that Poland was partitioned between the two powers this gave Germany the right to invade Poland which the took on the first of September 1939
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german blitzkrieg
Germany used a term that in English means lightning war to overcome enemy's. this worked until Hitler tried invading the soviet union. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437 -
pearl harbor
japan attacked the united states by bombing the united naval base in pearl harbor in Hawaii this led to the united states declaring war on japan and to the dropping of the atomic bombs.
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Bataan death march
the u.s surrender of the Bataan peninsula to japan led to the march of 75,000 american and Filipino troops to prison camps.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising
the act of Jewish resistance against the German troops in the Warsaw ghetto in German occupied Poland.the uprising was put down in the end
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d-day
the battle of Normandy later known as d-day began in june 1944 and ended in august of the same year. when 156,000 allied troops stormed a 50 mile long fortified beach of France/Normandy. the allies won and this led to the fall of the Nazi's.
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liberation of concentration camps
soviet soldiers first invaded concentration camps in Poland in 1944 and also they invaded Auschwitz and found hundreds of sick and injured and tired prisoners.
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battle of the bulge
last major German battle were Hitler attempted to split the allied army's to get the major bridgeheads of northwest Europe. the allies won this battle.
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battle of Iwo Jima
the american invasion of iwo jima started on February 19th 1945 and ended on the 26th of March of the same year. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops but the american troops overcame them and quickly won the battle in a little over a month.
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Battle of Okinawa
the last battle of the Pacific island battles the Okinawa campaign had 287,000 troops of the U.S. tenth army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese thirty-second army. they were fighting over the air bases needed to invade japan.the allies won but with a major amount of casualty's on both sides.
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VE day
the day that Germany surrenders to the allies and also the soviet union http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
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dropping the atomic bombs
on august 6th 1945 and august 9th of the same year the united states drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and also the city of Nagasaki.
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VJ day
the day the japan surrendered to the allies ending ww2.
www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
