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Japan invades China
China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany (see Sino-German cooperation until 1941), the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War. -
Germany takes over Austria
The 1938 Anschluss stands on contrast to the Anschluss movement Austria and Germany united as one country to form a "Greater Germany initially attempted in 1918, when the Republic of German-Austria attempted union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10 September 1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria". Previously, the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. -
Germany invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland Polish Kampania or Wojna obronna 1939 and alternatively the Poland Campaign German or Fall Weiss in Germany (Case White), was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, and ended October 6th. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain. England, literally Air battle for England is the name given to the Second World War defense of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940. In Britain, the officially dates are 10 July – 31 October 1940, overlapping with the period of large-scale night attacks known as The Blitz. German historians do not accept this subdivision, regard England as a campaign lasting from July 1940 to June 1941 -
Pearl Harbor is bombed
The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time.The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S.Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war.The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship,and one minelayer.188 U.S aircraft were destroyed. -
U.S delcares war on Japan
on december 8th 1941 the united states congress declared (public law 77-328, 55 STAT 795) on the Empire of Japan in resorces to that countrys suprise attack on pearl harbor the prior day. -
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D-Day
More than 160,000 allied troops landed along the 50 mile strech of heavily fortified french coastline to fight nazi germany on beaches of Normandy beach. -
Allied troops reach, liberate paris from Nazi occupation
The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, by the British 11th Armored Division. The soldiers discovered approximately 60,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. -
Battle of Okinawa
was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself. The 82-day-long battle lasted from 1 April until 22 June 1945 -
Hitler commits suicide in bunker
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations until 1970. -
V-E Day
V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Postdam Declaration
is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang, issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction. -
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. In August 1942, the United States launched the Manhattan Project to produce an atomic bomb. In September 1944, the decision was made to useof the new weapon -
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V-J Day
Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.
