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Japanese invasion of China
The japanese invaded Manchuria. -
Rape of Nanking
Japanese soldiers captured nanjing and killed 40,000 to 300,000 chinese civilians. -
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The beginnig and end of world war 2
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Germany and Russia invade Poland
Poland surrenders to the invasion of Germany and Russia, on the 27th of September. -
Fall of france
Germany invaded france and was successful at over taking it. -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany invades their allie, the soviet union. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The United states joined its allies in the war on this day. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombers fly over the U.S. naval base in hawaii dropping bombs on the Americans when they weren't expecting the bombing. -
Battle of Wake Island
the Battle ended on this day and it was a japanese victory. -
Wannsee Conference
Was a meeting called by senior officials of Nazi Germany. -
Bataan Death March
Filipino and Americans were forced to march 60mi. The japanese did this to toture the americans and filipinos. -
Battle of midway
The battle of midway started on the 4th of june and ended on the 7th of the same month, the Japanese would later bomb the united states naval base know as pearl harbor, which is located in Hawaii -
Battle of El Alamein
This is when the battle first started. And would later end on the 27th -
Battle of Stalingrad
This is when Nazi Germany and the soviet union would go to battel over the town called stalingard. This resulted in a soviet union victory . -
Operation Torch
The soviet union had forced the united states, and the uinited kingdom to start operations in Europe. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Allied forces but mostly from the U.S. landed on Guadalcanal, on the 7th of August 1942, and later seized and airfield that would later be called henderson Field. And Japanese forces would try to take back Henderson airfield. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
This is whem the ghetto warsaw uprising started and it would end later on May 16 1943. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The allied forces landed on mainland Italy. -
Battle of Monte cassino
The United states would end up capturing Monte cassino. -
D-day
U.S. troops and allies storm the beach of Normandy to fight the German troops. -
Liberation of concentration camps
On this day the soviet union entered a concentration camp, called Majdanek in poland. Which then later they over taken another concentration camp. -
Operation Market Garden
This was an unsuccessful military operation that was fought in the netherlands and germany. -
Battle of the Bulge
December 16 1944 is when the battle of the bulge started, and one year later on jan. the 25th is when the battle of the bulge finally ended. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major were the U.S. forces landed on then captured the island of Iwo Jima. -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa started April 1 and didn't finish until June 22 1945, It was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa, this also was the war that had the largest amphibious assault in the pacific war. -
VE Day
This was known as victory in Europe Day, this was also the public holiday. -
postdam declaration
This was proclamation defining terms for japanese surrender. -
Dropping the atomic bombs
The first atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. -
bombing Nagasaki
After the first atomic bomb was dropped another was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. -
Victory over Japan Day
Japan had surrendered to the United states. -
Nuremberg trials
These trials were held by Allied commission officers.