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Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing.The Japanese military was not only better armed and organized, they were also incredibly brutal.The Japanese Kwantung Army turned this relatively small incident into a full war between Japan and China. www.theguardian.com
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The Rape of Nanking
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Germany's invasion of Poland
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German Blitzkrieg
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Fall of Paris
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Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shocked military strike ran by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base.The attack on Pearl Harbor was planned to offset the U.S. Pacific Fleet.American attitudes about the war change entirely, American attitudes about the economy, about giving to the war.
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Wannsee Conference
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battle of midway
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battle of stalingrad
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Operation Gomorrah
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion -
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Operation Thunderclap
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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Battle of the Bulge
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VE Day
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Potsdam Declaration
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
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VJ Day
August 14, 1945, it was said that Japan had gave up unconditionally to the Allies, finally ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” www.history.com
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