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Japan Invadess China
Japan tried to expand into East Asia in 1931by invading Manchuria and continued in 1937 by attacking china. The reason Japan attacked was to expand and become a major power but they were punished by the U.S sanctioned Japan which means they withheld goods from them. Which lead to the bombing of Pearl Harbor -
Rape of Nanking
To break the spirit of Chinese resistance, Japanese General Matsui Inane ordered the city of Nanking to be destroyed. Most of the city was burned. The "Rape of Nanking," the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male "war prisoners," massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process. -
Germany Invades Poland
In 1934 Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland. In 1939 Germany invaded Poland only 5 years after signing the nonaggression act. The polish army only held for a few weeks but soon fell to the Nazi army, Germany invaded Poland with over than 2000 tanks, and over 1000 planes broke through the polish lines. Soon after Britain and France both declared war on Germany. -
German Blitzkreig
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called Blitzkrieg (Lighting War). These tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons such as tanks, planes and artillery along a narrow front. They would drive through enemy lines and caused the enemy to panic. -
Operation Barbossa
The code name Barbossa standed for the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Germany attacked the Soviet Union because it held the biggest population of Jews and sloves. Germany reached Stalingrad but was defeated at the border and was driven back. -
Pearl Harbor
The main reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was because we sanctioned Japan which means we stopped giving them goods and other things. The bombing happened on December 7, 1941 and it killed over 2000 were killed and over a thousand were wounded. -
Wannsee Conference
15 ranked officials of the Nazi army and German government officials gathered Wannsee a small village in Berlin. They met to discuss the ``Final Solution of the Jew question``. Final Solution standed for the Nazis blaming the Jews for a lot of things and would eventually lead to the mass murders and the holocaust. -
Battle of Stalingrad
On February 2, 1942 the last of the German army that was in Stalingrad. German officials believed it would only take 10 days to capture Stalingrad, which began one of the bloodiest battles in WW2 and one of the most important battles in the war. Starvation -
Battle of Stalingrad
On February 2, 1942 the last of the German army that was in Stalingrad. German officials believed it would only take 10 days to capture Stalingrad, which began one of the bloodiest battles in WW2 and one of the most important battles in the war. Starvation and the Harsh Russian winters killed more troops than the soviet army themselves. -
Bataan Death March
On April 10, 1942 The Japanese forces forced captured Filipino and American troops were forced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice during the entire march. Hundreds of Americans and Filipinos died during the trip. -
Battle of Midway
On June 4, 1942 the Japanese admiral Chuichi Nagumo, the commander of the fleet that attacked pearl harbor lead another attack this time on the Midway islands in the pacific with almost all of their navy. The U.S navy was depleted but they still managed to beat the Japanese attack. -
Warsaw Ghetto
From April 19 to May 16, 1943, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Warsaw, Poland, lead an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German occupied Europe. -
Operation Gomorrah
In 1943 British bombers attacked Hamburg, Germany by night and the U.S bombers attacked it during the day more than 1500 German civilians were killed in the first British raid and Britain only lost 12 of their planes out of 791 planes. Operation Gomorrah lasted from July to Nov. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastlines to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by the end of June 6, the Allies gained a firm hold of Normandy. The D-day cost was more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to beat Nazi Germany -
Battle of the Bulge
In late 1944, after U.S invasion of Normandy, France people thought the war was about over. On December 16 the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the allied forces; Hitler thought this would turn the tide of the war to Germany but eventually Allies beat the Germans. -
Operation Thunderclap
In February 1945, the RAF and the American air force attacked Dresden in three short raids. A total of 1,223 Allied planes caused a firestorm, like the one in Hamburg that wiped out the city and killed a large number of civilians. Because so many people had recently arrived in the city, it is impossible to know the exact number of deaths; estimates range from 30,000 to 135,000. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The battle of Iwo Jima was fought between U.S and the Japanese. The battle took place on the small island of Iwo Japan located in the Pacific Ocean in 1945. During the bloody battle for Iwo Jima a small group of marines fought their way to the highest peak on the island to raise the American flag to claim Iwo Jima over Japan. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa proved to be one of the bloodiest battles in the pacific during 1945. 34 Allied ships were sunk, mostly caused by Kamikazes (Suicide pilots) and over U.S 12,000 troops were killed and over 36,000 were wounded, More people died in the battle of Okinawa then the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 107,000 Japanese soldiers were killed during the battle. -
Hitlers Death
On April 30, 1945 Der Fuhrer, or Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany was hiding inside of a Air Raid shelter were he consumed a cyanide pill the shot himself. At his side was his wife Eva Braun who also committed suicide. -
V-E Day
On May, 8th was a celebration between the American and other Allie troops in Europe. They were celebrating because Germany surrendered and lead to the end of the war in Europe. -
Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945 the United States used an atomic bomb against Hiroshima, the bomb was the equivalent to over 20,000 tons of TNT, which flattened the city, killing over tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to recover from the bombing of Hiroshima, a few days later the U.S stroke again this time dropping another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
After the U.S bombed the two major cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Which lead to Japan surrounding to the Allie forces. Japan officially surrendered on August 14, 1945. -
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