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Japanese invasion of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan -
German Blitzing
In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. -
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Germany invasion over Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign was a joint invasion of Poland by the Nazi -
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Wannasee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee -
Operation Gomorrah
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids -
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Operation Thunderclap
The plan was to bomb Berlin and several other eastern cities in conjunction with the Soviet advance. The plans for a large and intense offensive targeting these cities had been discussed under the code name Operation Thunderclap, then shelved on August 16. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II -
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 advance at St.Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. -
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Battle of two Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II -
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Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. -
VE-Day
German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more in Copenhagen and Oslo at Karlshorst, near Berlin in northern Latvia on the Channel Island of Sark the German surrender was realized in a final cease fire. -
Atomic Bombs
A plane called the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people perished. -
VJ-Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as Victory over Japan Day or V-J Day.