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Japanese ivasion of china
this event started the second Sino-Japanese war. The japanese quickly captured all of Chinas Key ports and industrial centers, including cities. Massacers and atrocities happened often.The most well know is when Japanese troops slaughtered almost 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. Many Chinese were killed by the Japanese air force. There were also savage reprisals carried out against Chinese pesents. This led, by the war’s end, to about 20 million Chinese peole -
Rape of Nanking
When Japanese marched into Chinas Capitol Nanking and murdered 300,000 out of 600,000 people -
Ribbentrop Pact
The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland Britain and France, promising to protect Poland's borders five months earlier, declared war on Germany this marked the begining og world War 2 -
Germany's invasion of poland
Germany invades poland and within weeks Poland is defeted within weeks. Nazi germany occupied most of poland and it remained that way until January 1945 -
German Blitzkrieg
a military tactic designed to create disoraganization among enemy forces -
The Fall of Paris
Hilter uses his Bitzkrieg attack to make the French flee from Paris looking for refugee -
Operation Thunderclap
the code for a cancelled operation -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler sent his army east in a huge invasion of the Soviet Union and they lost the battle the started -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japaanesee planes attacked the American Navel base on Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted 2 hours and destroyed the base at Pearl Harbor. The next day america entered WW2 -
Wannsee conference
When the Nazi party and German government officials gathered to discuss the "final solution of thr jewish question -
Bataan Death march
The U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camps. Thousands died -
battle of midway
one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II -
battle of stalingrad
considered to be the turning point in WW2 -
operation Gomration
british bombers raid Hambug, germany at nght while Americans bomb it by day -
D-Day
Allied troops landed along the French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany Gen. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft helped the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in continental Europe -
Battle of the bulge
The second world war seemed over until Germany attacked again attempting to turn the war in Hitlers favor -
Battle of Iwo Jima
America invaded Iwo Jima to try to capture a base near the Jaoanesse coast -
battle of okinawa
The operation was to move forward following the conclusion of fighting on Iwo Jima. To support the invasion at sea. -
dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
VJ day
the end of World War 2 -
VE day
on this day both America and great britain celebrate aa victory in europe
