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Japanese Invasion of China
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htm
This was a military conflict that started between Japan and China due to the Marco Polo bridge incident which escalated into battle. -
Rape of Nanking
https://www.history.com/topics/japan/nanjing-massacre
over six weeks Imperial Japanese Army Forces brutally murdered, and sexually assaulted 30,000-80,000 women -
Germany's invasion of Poland
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-polandthe German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
German Blitzkrieg
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
Clausewitz proposed the "Concentration Principle," which was the idea that concentrating forces against an enemy, and making a single blow against a single weakened target if more effective than dispersing those forces. -
Pearl Harbor
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
200 japanese planes dropped bombs on Pearl harbor a U.S. Naval base in Hawaii killing 2,400 U.S. people -
Bataan Death March
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
After the April 9, 1942 U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, about 75,000 Filipino and American Troops on Bataan were forced to do a 6-mile march to prison camps. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/warsaw-ghetto-uprising
Germany sent Jews to Extermination camps in response to that there was a uprising in Poland by the poor people. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
A battle that lasted 3 months that resulted in allies taking over the western nation -
Battle of the bulge
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Hitlers aim was to split allies with Germany, the troops failed to divide Britain, and France it took place during frigid weather. -
Liberation on concentration camps
https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-liberation-soviets-holocaust
in January 1945 they found a warehouse full other peoples stuff most of the people who owned the items were dead, murdered by the Nazis in the holocaust largest concentration camp. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
Military campaign between the U.S. and the Imperial Army of Japan 750 miles off the coast is the island Iwo Jima they had 3 airfields that could serve as a staging facility the battle lasted for 3 weeks. They believe 200 of the 21,000 japanese forces on the island were killed as were almost 7,000 marines. -
Battle of Okinawa
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa
180,000 U.S. army and U.S. Marines corps troops moved to the Pacific Island of Okinawa which was the final push towards Japan -
VE Day
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
It was when Great Britain and United States celebrated the victory in Europe Day -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
American B-29 bomber plane dropped the first ever deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima destroying 90% of the city and killing around 80,000 people -
VJ Day
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
Japan surrendered which resulted in the end of WWII since then August 14-15 has been called Victory over Japan Day or VJ Day
