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Japanese invasion of china
Japan invaded china to try to become an imperial power. Economically, the gain resources and to control all of asia.
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Germany Invaded Poland
Early in the morning 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland and bombed polish airfields simultaneously German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.
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German Blitzkrieg
German blitzkrieg known as "lightning war" was a war tactic used to disorganized armies and to make devastating destruction also, using mobile forces and concentrated firepower. Germans used this to prevent attritional deadlock.
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Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched this attack at the soviet union. In order to achieve the world dominance he wanted he had to invade the soviet union with over 3 million men and 3 thousand tanks.
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Pearl Harbor
December 7,941 considered the most tragic event in U.S history when hundreds of Japanese war fighter planes attacked the naval based stationed at Hawaii which lasted of 2 hours. The devastating attacked took out 20 vessels including 300 airplanes and 8 enormous battleships.The attack also took the lives of 2000 soldiers.
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Wannsee Conference
Constructed by Reinhard Heydrich was a conference in which the Nazis and thirteen other German bureaucrats to coordinate the "final solution" or the complete extermination of the Jewish population in Europe.
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Operation Gomorrah
British forces raid Hamburg, Germany by night while american forces attack during the day known as "blitz week". With the tables turned the British dropped 2300 tons of incendiary bombs . Germany was being hit hard for their attacks on Britain.
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D-Day (Normady Invasion)
A 156,000 American, British , and Canadian troop assault invasion on five beaches of France's Normandy region. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.
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Battle of the Bulge
, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advances.Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved a successful allied defense and victory despite many casualties. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command which was the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.
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Battle of iwo jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945 to Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
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Battle of Okinawa
The Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa to engage against the Japanese in the most bloody pacific war ever. The allied forces main target to destroy the Japanese war ship the yamato and gain control of the pacific. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa -
VE Day
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. All around the world Germans laid down their arms and surrendered to their enemies ,sparking a celebration the World War 2 was finally over.
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Dropping atomic bombs
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent .Three days later a B-29 dropped second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
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VJ Day
Victory over japan day is when the Japanese unconditionally surrender several months after Germany and was when japan formally surrender on the U.S.S Missouri , in Tokyo bay.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
