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Japanese invasion of china
A war broke out between Japanese and Chinese troops near Peiping in north china. Japans military decisions were also influenced by ideas of Pan-Asianism. japan started to see themselves as a potential leader that could unite all the Asian nations together in a struggle against the Western imperialists. -
Rape of Nanking
The Japanese killed an estimated 150,000 male war prisoners, also killed another 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of who were mutilated or killed in the process. -
Germanys invasion of poland
Poland did not want too hand over there land so Germans invaded the land. More than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
German blitzkrieg
the term blitzkrieg means "lighting war" -
bataan death march
american and filipino troops where forced too march a 65 mile march too prison camps -
warsaw ghetto uprising
ghettos where left too die -
D-Day
160,000 people fought in normandy -
liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers where the first ones too liberate concentration camps. the soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
the Americans invaded Iwo Jima -
battle of the bulge
this day whas the last day the the germens where on offence. germans put 250,000 to war -
battle of okinawa
287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
VE day
the Europeans and the Americans defeated the Nazi army on this day -
dropping of the atomic bomb
the united states where the first and only people too use the atomic bomb during warfare. they dropped the atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ day
japan has surrendered to its unconditionally to the Allies. -
pearl harbor
Japanese attacked pearl harbor in Hawaii. more than 2000 american troops where killed during that attack.
