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Japaneses invasion of China
Japanenes clamimed they were fired on by Chinese troops at the
Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing
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German Blitzkrieg
German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940.
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Germany's invasion of poland
Britain and france standing by their gurantee of poland border had declared war on German. The Saviet Union invade
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Pearl Harbor
Solemnly, he began his speech requesting a declaration of war: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
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Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Wannasee Confrence
Russian counter-offensive in Moscow and the United States' entry into WW2 pushed back the meeting.
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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.”
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D-Day(Normandy invasion
D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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Battle of iwo Jama
Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting,
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VE Day
To mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Battle of the Bulge
Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German counteroffensive despite heavy casualties.
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Battle of Okinawa
U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
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Dropping off the atomic bombs
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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VJ Day
By 1945, in an attempt to break Japanese resistance before a land invasion became necessary, the Allies were consistently bombarding Japan .
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
