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Japanese invade China
China was unable to effectively defend against the Japanese army. For more than the reason that they were outnumbered. The japanese army was ruthless and brutal. What was supposed to be an easy victory over China, the Chinese army proved to be a harder force than anticipated. This is what some historians claim
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Ribbentrop/Molotov pact
Also known as, The Nazi-Soviet pact. This pact was between the German and the Union of Soviet Socalist Republics. It was singed on August 23, 1939. Forming the alliance between Russia and Germany. Later on in the war the Hitler-Stalin pact will be broken by Germany.
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Germany invades Poland
Germany wanted to sign a non-agression pact with Poland. Many of the Germanys' Nazis' wanted to invade Poland and that is what they got.
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Germany's Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was German for "lightning war". This was the Nazi's plan for attack. Hit them first and hit them fast. -
Opertation Barbarossa
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Pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941. The day that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The japanese airplanes had destroyed 20 american naval ships, and almost over 200 american airplanes. 2000 american soldiers and sailors were killed, while another 1000 were wounded. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was the "Fianl Decision" of what to do with the Jewish population. They decided to commit a genocide and kill the entire Jewish population.
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Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II , the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad, was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest batttles in history. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was a plan to bomb a civilian populated city and utterly destroy it. The german's bombed and killed 42600 civilians and wounding 37000 more civilians.
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D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
In the summer of 1944 the Allies had liberated many concetration camps including the infamous Auschwitz. Where many jews were bieng held and torterd and killed.
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Battle of the Buldge
In late 1944, in the wake of the allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. But on December 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. -
Battle if Iwo Jima
The American invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate air and naval bombing, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from a network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Battle of Okinawa involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day battle, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was a plan to invade Berlin and kill many high german official causing very moral concequences.
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in
World War II.
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VJ Day
On, 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 simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years
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VE Day
VE day, other wise knwon as "Victory of Europe Day", was the day the that the Nazis had officialy signed a treaty with the alliance, and ended Adolf Hitlers Third Reich.
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