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Japan invades China
China was in a weakend state so Japan invaded.Japan wanted more land. This caused China and Japan to fight. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland. Germany wanted their land back. This broke the league of nations pact so the allies declared war. -
German Blitzkrieg
This is a military tactic. which is a german term meaning "lighting War". This tacticwas to create disorginization among enemy forces. Germany tried this tactic out when they invaded Poland -
Operation Barbarossa
This was invasion on the soviet union. Like always germany wanted land. this caused germany to lose a ton of men because they underestimated the soviet union. -
Pearl Harbor
Japn attacked the USA. Japan and the U.S. have always been neck and neck with each other and a wolrd war was the way to start it. The U.S. declared war right after the attack. -
Wannsee conference
On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons. -
Battle Of Midway
This was a naval battle between Japan and the U.S. The U.S. defeated Japan in this battle because they wanted payback for Pearl Harbour. -
Operation Torch
It was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African campaign of the Second World War which started on November 8th, 1942 -
D-day
The western allies of WW2 launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on June 6th, 1944 -
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Battle of the bulge
A major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of WW2 in Europe -
Battle of Iwojima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the US Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. February 19th 1945 to March 26th 1945 -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg was a series of battles fought in the Ryu island of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Civil War during World War 1. April 1st 1945 to June 22nd 1945. -
FDR death
FDR’s vice president for just 82 days before FDR died and Truman became the 33rd president. In his first months in office he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, ending WW2
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Nuremberg Trials
after the war some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. Nuremberg Germany was chosen as the site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied Powers -Great Britain ,France ,the Soviet Union and US presided over the hearings of 22 major Nazi criminals. -
VE Day
Public holiday celebrated on the ⅞ of may 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of world war two of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the Atomic bombs
President Harry S Truman warned by some of the advisers that any attempt to invade Japan to visit horrific American casualties ordered a new weapon he used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6th 1945 the American bomber Enola Gay Dropped a 5-ton Bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ day
On August 15th 1945 news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War 2. On September 2nd 1945 a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo bay aboard the USS Missouri. at the time President Truman declared September 2nd to be VJ day.
