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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (Manchukuo)
the invasion of Manchuria was preceded by a series of skirmishes and battles in the area the Japanese bombing of the Chinese city of Shenyang is an act of aggression that led to a full-scale Japanese invasion of Manchuria. -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by president paul von Hindenburg he made the appointment in an effort to keep Hitler and the nazi party. -
Nanking Massacre/Rape of Nanking
it was a mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers. -
Munich Conference
Germany and Italy, Great Britain, and France signed the Munich agreement by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses. -
Kristallnacht
It was a series of violent antisemitic attacks that took place across Germany, the antisemitic laws and decrees had been increasing from the time that the nazis rose to power. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland/Blitzkrieg
It was their approach characterized by extensive bombing way early on to destroy the enemy's air capacity and railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps. -
Fall of Paris
It was when Paris fell to nazi Germany one month after the german Wehrmacht stormed into France eight days later, France signed an armistice with the germans, and a french state was set up with its capital at Vichy -
Dunkirk
It was an operation of the evacuation of more than 338,000 allied soldiers during the second world war from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk in the north of France. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was the Japanese attack on pearl harbor that crippled and destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes, dry docks, and airfields/2,403 sailors, soldiers, and civilians were killed and about 1,000 people were wounded but they failed. -
Bataan Death March
It was the forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese army of between 60,000 and 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from says in point, began, and Bataan to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
It was the navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle it was the united states that destroyed japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best-trained fighters. -
Battle of Stalingrad
it was Germany and its allies that fought the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
D-Day
the codenamed operation overlord battle had begun on June 6/1944 it was also known as d-day when some 156,000 Americans and the British and Canadian forces landed on the five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
it was ww2 the last german offensive on the western front it was an unsuccessful attempt to divide the allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany the word bulge refers to the wedge that the germans drove into the allied lines. -
Dropping the Atomic Bombs
the atomic bomb also known as the ‘fat man’ was dropped over the city of Hiroshima and Japanese killing 39,000 men and women and children were killed and 25,000 more were injured. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Trying to capture the island with its 2 airfields. It was a major battle in which the united states marine corps and united states navy landed and eventually capture. -
Battle of Okinawa
It was a battle that was fought between the Japanese forces on Okinawa which was the largest Ryukyu island. it was the largest amphibious assault of the pacific war. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler was holed up in his bunker under his headquarters in berlin he commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.