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Japanese invasion of china(1937)
China fought Japan with some help from germany, economically Japan needed more resources it wanted to be an industrial and imperial power but lacked resources and dint have room on its homeland. everyone was affected by the war some tooks flights, around 20 thousand died in the war.
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Germanys invasion of Poland (1939)
Germans invade Poland on land and in air to regain lost territory and ultimately rule poland. Hitler said he was doing it out of defense but he was really trying to claim "living space" for the germans, many of the immigrants got away during this time span.
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Rape of nanking
The Japanese imperial army marched into Chinas capital cit of Nanking and proceed to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
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German Blitzkrieg
A military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. its successful executiion results in short military campaigns which preserves human lives and limits the expediture of artillery.
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Fall of paris
On this day, parisians woke up to the voice of a German accented voice announcing via loud speakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m that evening as german troops enter and occupy Paris.
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operation barbossa
code name for nazi germanys invasion of the soviet union during world war 2
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Pearl harbor
The attack on pearl harbor, the hawaii operation or operation by the japanese imperial head quarters the u.s declares war on japan almost 2,000 militants are killed
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Wannsee confernece
The conference was a meeting between the senior officials of nazi germany held in the berlin suburb.
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D-Day normandy Invasion
This invasion forshadowed the end of Hitlers dream of nazi domination.
over lord was the largest air, land and sea operation befor or since june 6 1944
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Battle of the bulge
Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested ardennes region of wallonia in belgium.
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a suprize Blitzkrieg.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The american anphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during world war II.
Iwo Jima was deafeted by roughly 23,000 japanese army and navy troops who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts and tunnels.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the pacific island battles of world war II. Japanese change there usual tactic of resisting at waters edge to a defense in depth, designed to gain time.
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VE day
Victory day in Europe, the public holiday celebrated on may 8th, 1945 both Great Britain and the U.S celebrate victory in Europe day https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=ve+dady&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific american casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a quick end.
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German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
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japanese internment
Japanese americans in the United States was the forced location betwen 110,000 and 120,000 people of japanese ancestry.
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VJ Day
Japan surrendered it was later announced to the world. This sparked spontanious celebrations over the final ending of world war II.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
