World War 2 Donnaven

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  • Japan invades China

    Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria and Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo lasted until the end of World War 2

  • The Holocaust

    the mass murder of Jews from Nazi Germany

  • Munich Conference

    which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.

  • Non-Aggression Pact

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union promised not to attack each other

  • Germany invades Poland

    This action lead to the start of World War 2 after Germany just signed the non agression pact

  • Blitzkrieg

    A German term for lightning war its also used for a military tactic to create disorginization of the enemy forces

  • Battle of Britain

    The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom

  • Lend-Lease Act

    Providing U.S. military aid to foriegn nations during World War 2

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanes navy attacked Pearl Harbor against the United States navy

  • Bataan Death March

    75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an 65-mile march to prison camps.

  • Battle of Midway

    Naval War between U.S. andJapan

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    One of the bloodiest battles whith combined military and civilians casualties of 2 million

  • D-Day

    World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy

  • The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    The United States droped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of The Bulge wasn a German offensive campaign.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    A battle in which the United States Army landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Army during World War II.

  • Battle of Okinawa

    codenamed Operation Iceberg was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest assault in the Pacific War during World War II

  • Veterans Day

    A public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of World War 1

  • Victory over Japan day

    The day when Japan surrenders and ended World War 2

  • Warsaw Pact

    Collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence of the Cold War