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japans war on china
in 1931 japan invaded china but it wasnt considered at war until the marco polo bridge incident on july 7th 1937. since then the second sino-japanese war began and ended in 1945 on september 9 -
poland invasion
in 1939 adolph hitler sent 1.3 million troops into polland on a surprise attack. 40 german divisions squared off against 30 polish ones the germans also had 3,200 tanks as opposed to the polish 600 poland was over run in 4 weeks. -
battle of the atlantic
battle that started from the beggining of the war and lasted until germany's surrender tens of thousands of people died thousnds of ships sank -
battle of river plate
The battle of river plate was the first episode of the second world war and the only one to take place in south america. -
germany's biggest mistake
on june 22 1941 adolph hitler and the german army launched a massive invassion of the soviet union called operation barbarossa the german army was huge 150 division. the cold weather and the russions being on there own homeland gave them the advantage and just like napoleon before him on march of 1942 hitlers plan failed -
pearl harbor bombing
in december 7th 1941 japan attacked our naval base in hawaii sinking all ships except the arizona and killing up to 2000 american soldiers another 1000 injured and 20 naval vessals sunk. about 3 days later congress declared war on japan -
wannsee conference
the second in comand of the ss reinhard heydrich convened the nazis final solution they would exterminate all the jews from europe. -
D-Day
the allied troops stormed of 160,000 troops onto the beaches of normady france. more than 9,000 allied troops died or were wounded -
market garden
allied troops try to force an entry into germany. -
battle of bulge
in the december of 1944 hitler tried to split up the allied forces by means of surprise caught off gaurd allied forces faught desperately. on a attack on bridgehead the allied forces took the appearance of a lard bulge
