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Japanese Invasion of China
On July 7th 1937 a violent encounter happened between the Japanese and Chinese. In a conference on July 12 with Japanese Ambassador, Secretary Hull elaborated on the pointlessness of war and the horrble consequences. Emphasizing the large amount of damage to the victor as well as for the loser in the case that war actually were to happen. -
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Rape of Nanking
The Rape of NankingThe Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned, and Japanese troops brutaly tortured the civilians. The Japanese slaughtered about 150,000 inprisoned men and killed an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women of all ages, many were killed in the process. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact, called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Secret protocols of the pact defined the territories of influence Germany and Russia would have after a successful invasion of Poland. According to the agreement, Russia would control over Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, while Germany would gain control over Lithuania and Danzig. Poland would be seperated into three major regions. -
Germans Invade Poland
Source The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive attack. After heavy bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
Blitzkrieg
“The Lightning War", was an concept developed as a solution to the trench warfare of World War I. While American, Russian, British and other armies developed similar concepts, only the German generals received support for their operational plans prior to World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
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Hitler launched his armies to the east to invade the Soviet Union: three armies with over three million German soldiers and three thousand tanks went across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered about two thousand miles. -
Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese plan was simple they wanted to destroy the Pacific Fleet that way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. After months of planning the Japanese launched their attack. Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. Bombs and bullets rained onto the ships below. -
Wannsee Conference
German Officials held a conference to plan the final solution to the "Jewish Question". The conference was attended by 15 Nazi leaders and the chief of Jewish affairs for the Reich Central Security Office. The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy toward the Jews. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while American bombs it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were turned. British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy which resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. this is when American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history
