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Japanese Invasion Of China
Japanese Invasion of China It was the Marco Polo Bridge incident that had sparked a full-blown conflict. The Japanese captured Chinese ports and industrial centres. On both sides they used "Scorched Earth" tatics. The Japanese slaughtered an estimated 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. Thousnads of Chinese were killed in the bombing of Chinese cities. An estimated 10-20 million Chinese civilians died. -
Rape of Nanking
Rape Of NankingAfter the Chinese were defeated, 50,000 Japanese soldiers marched to Nanking. The soldiers of Nanking were poorly led and loosely organized. The Japanese were ordered to kill all of the captives. Th Japanese first eliminated any threat of the 90,000 Chinese soldiers that surrendered. After eliminating the Chinese POW's the Japanese then turned to the women of Nanking. They took old women over the age of 70 and little girls under the age of 8 to be sexually abused. -
German Blitzkrieg
BlitzkriegBlitzcrieg aslo known as the "Lightning War". At first the German Blitzkrieg seemed to succeed. A second German offensive against the Soviet Union in 1942. The Soviet Union then launched a counteroffensive in Novemebr 1942, trapping and destroying a German army in Stalingrad. -
Germany's Invasion Of Poland
German Invasion Of PolandThe Polish army was defeated within weeks of invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border. After heavy shelling and bombing Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 3, 1939. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Shortly before 8 a.m. Japan launched 200 planes out of aircraft carriers in its first wave of attach on Pearl Harbor. The Americans were shocked because most of their attention on Europe and Hitler. -
Pearl Harbor 2
Video The Americans attention was on Europe and Hitler's two year, two-front war of conquest. There was severe damage or destruction of 18 ships, including the battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, California, Nevada, and West Virginia. More than 2,400 United States personnel were killed.on December 8, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Bataan Death March
Death March 75,000 Filipino and American Troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula began a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. The prisoners were foced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice for the entire journey. By the end of the march hundreds of Americans died and many more Filipinos died. -
Battle of Midway
Midway It started on June 3, 1942 and ended on June &, 1942. It was one of the most decisive victories for the U.S. against the Japan. During the four-day sea and air-battle the outnumbered U.S. succeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of their own. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw The uprising started after the German troops and police entered ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters held on for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended.The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the 56,000 Jews 7,000 were shot and the others were put into camps. -
D-Day (Norman Invasion)
D-Day The BAttle of Normandy last from June 1944 - August 1944. It resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Codename Operation Overlord, began on June 6th, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 Americans, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches on a 50 mile stretch. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
D-Day 2
dday Before D-Day , the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault, 14 German infantry divisions gaurded by 5 panzer divisions against a mere 80,000 Americans. The assault came early in the morning at the weakest part of the Allied line. The Battle raged on for three weeks, resulting in a massive loss of American and civilian life. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Liberation Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners. On July 23, 1944 they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later ran over several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945 they entered Auschwitz and found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. British, Canadian, American, and French also freed prisoners from camps. -
Operation Thunderclap
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The proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. . At Yalta Churchill had promised to do more to support the Soviet forces moving -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima The Amercan ivasion of Iwo JIma during WW2 stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese caost. Following elaborate prepatory air and naval bombardment, 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. Marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore. -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
Atomic Bomb In 1945 at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber,the Enola Gay, drops the worlds first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed and another 35,000 injured. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima, after the bombing there was only 28,000 left. Before the explosion there were 200 doctors and after the explosion there were only 20 left alive -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa The Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Amry. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion in Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casulties, including 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
VE On this day both Great Britain and the U.S. celebrated Victory in Europe. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughtout Europe finally laid down their arms. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in east Germany. -
VJ Day
VJ Day On August 14, 1945 it had been declared that Japan had surrendered. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan's capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highy anticipated close.
