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Japanese invasion of China
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, established the puppet government of Manchukuo in 1932, and soon pushed south into North China.
However, a clash between Chinese and Japanese troops outside Beijing on July 7, 1937, marked the beginning of full-scale warfare. Shanghai was attacked and quickly fell
it affected the United States it affected china they lost many people
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the rape of Nanking continued
their bellies cut open and the baby was torn out. After they were raped they were killed so they wouldn’t tell anyone. Families were also sometimes forced to watch the raping happen to their own kids, or have family members rape their own family member. -
Rape of Nanking
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into Chinas capital city of Nanking and they murder 300,00 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The rape of Nanking is known as six weeks of carnage. After the destruction was done of the POWs the soldiers were focused on women of Nanking. More then 20,000 females were gang raped. Old ladies and girls under eight were sent off to be sexually abused. Pregnant women weren’t lucky either, they were raped too, but also had -
Germany's invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 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 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of -
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Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River.In October 1939, Germany directly annexed those former Polish territories along German's eastern border: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. The remainder of German-occupied Poland -
Fall Paris
German thrust beyond the Seine and the Marne, threatening to turn the Maginot line, appears to have made little progress. A direct attack on the Maginot Line in the Saar region has been repulsed with heavy German losses. French warships have bombarded factories and a railway line along the Italian coast. -
Fall of Paris
Saturday 15 June 1940 Paris fell to the Germans yesterday. The French, having decided not to fight in the capital itself, have withdrawn south of the city.
In deciding not to defence Paris the French Command "aimed at sparing it the devastation which defence would have involved. The command considered that no valuable strategic result justified the sacrifice of Paris."From the sea to the Maginot Line the Allies are resisting strongly on a new line behind Paris. There was no pause in the German -
Germen Blitzkrieg
On 21 June 1940, early in the second year of World War Two, the French president, Marshall Philippe Pétain, sued for peace with Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. In the course of the negotiations Pétain - victor of the battle of Verdun in World War One - agreed to cede three-fifths of French territory to German control.In one of history's great ironies, Hitler insisted that the armistice be signed in the very railway car in which Germany had been compelled to admit defeat at the end of World War One. -
operation Barbarossa
Even so, the Soviets were unprepared for the sudden blitzkreig attacks across a border that spanned nearly 2,900 km (1,800 mi), and they suffered horrible losses. Within a single week, German forces advanced 200 miles into Soviet territory, destroyed nearly 4,000 aircraft, and killed, captured, or wounded some 600,000 Red Army troops -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa -- some 4.5 million troops launched a surprise attack deployed from German-controlled Poland, Finland, and Romania.Hitler had long had his eye on Soviet resources. Although Germany had signed a non-aggression pact with the USSR in 1939, both sides remained suspicious of one another, and the agreement merely gave them more time to prepare for a probable war. -
Pearl Harbor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unha -
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 on the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, -
Wannsee conference
Wannsee confrence In the years leading up to World War II, the phrase "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem" had taken on a series of increasingly ominous meanings in the Nazi vocabulary.2 The various implications had included voluntary emigration, confinement to ghettos in cities located along rail lines, forced removal to concentration camps, and finally, extermination. Heydrich wanted to be certain there was no confusion among the group that, now, the term referred specifically to the murder -
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murder of all European Jews. Heydrich's assistant, SS Lt-Colonel Adolf Eichmann tells us in testimony at his trial in 1961, that the meeting was relatively brief, lasting only an hour to an hour and a half, and that the atmosphere of the meeting was one of cooperation and agreement.3 These high-ranking members of the Nazi government met at mid-day over a buffet luncheon to discuss the annihilation of an entire people. -
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Operation gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz Week."Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most -
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destructive raids. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.The main result was a horrendous July 28 firestorm that killed more than 40,000 persons in and around Hamburg. Most died of asphyxiation while huddling for shelter in their basements, or in the above-ground flames and melting asphalt of the streets -
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Battle of the Bulge
During the Battle of Bulge the Germans suffered more then 100,000 casualities, the American's lost approzimentely 8,000. The Germans attacked through the American forest in eastern Belgium on Decemeber 16. The Germans broke through the thinly held American line with hunders of of tanks and hundered thousand soldiers. The Germans had defeated the us but the US had manged elay the enemy sufficiently to permit reinforcements to be moved into position to halt the German drive. -
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http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006178
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml
http://www.army.mil/d-day/
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm
http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/wannsee.shtml
http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/qt/Bataan-Death-March.htm
http://www.army.mil/d-day/
