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Japanese invasion of China
Who: The Japanese
What: Launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.
Effect: Raped, tortured, and killed people (up to 250,000) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_war.htm -
Rape of Nanking
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Who: The Japanese Imperial Army
What: marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
Effect: The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
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Who: The Germans and Soviets.
What: The German-Soviet Pact
Effect: The German's and the Soviet's signed this pact to agree that neither country will attack each other. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Who: Germany
What: Invaded Poland
Effect: Annexed all of Poland's terroritories.
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German Blitzkrieg
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Fall of Paris
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Who: The German's
What: Invaded France and took over
Effect: Everybody left with the exception of not that many people. There were few soldiers, citizens, and policemen left after the German's invaded. -
Operation Barbarossa
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Who: Adolf Hitler
What: Sent his armies east to invade the Soviet Union, despite the German-Soviet pact.
Effect: He sent 3 armies consisting of 3 million soldiers. During this they took hundreds of thousands of prisoners. -
Pearl Harbor
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Who: The Japanese
What: Attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
Effect: Killed 2,000 American soldiers and wounded 1,000. They obliterated almost 20 American ships, 200 airplanes, and 8 battleships. -
Wannsee Conference
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Who: The Nazi party and the German government.
What: Gathered to determine the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
Effect: They determined that they would be put into concetration camps. The able-bodied Jews would be put to work. -
Bataan Death March
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Who: The Japanese.
What: U.S. and Filipino troops surrendered.
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Battle of Midway
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Who: The U.S.
What: Was in a Naval battle with the Japanese
Effect: They were able to defeat the Japanese in this Naval battle due to major advances in code breaking (thanks to Turing). -
Operation Gomorrah
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Who: British bombers
What: Raid Hamburg,
Effect: Dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs, killing 1,500 Germans. -
D-Day in Normandy
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Who: The U.S. and their allies
What: Raided Normandy beaches
Effect: In a week the beaches were fully secure with 4,000 allied troops losing their lives and thousands more wounded or missing. -
Operation Thunderclap
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Who: Allies
What: Massive attack on Berlin to cause 220,000 casualties and killing 110,000.
Effect: It was cancelled, thus never following through. -
Battle of the Bulge
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Who: Three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) What: To launched the deadliest battle of WWII.
Effect: The U.S. won the battle, losing 100,000 soldiers in the process. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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Who: Americans
What: Attacked the island of Iwo Jima.
Effect: Attacked the Japanese on the island and won. When they first arrived on the island they were basically sitting ducks to Japanese gunners due to not being able to find cover. -
Battle of Okinawa
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Who: U.S. and Japanese soldiers
What: Fought the last and biggest battles of World War II in the Pacific.
Effect: The campaign ended 82 days in. Japan had 77,000+ casualties and we (the U.S. and our allies) had 65,000+ casualties (with 14,000 soldiers being killed. -
VE Day
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Who: The German's
What: Finally gave up the war and admitted defeat.
Effect: The German's lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
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Who: The U.S.
What: Dropped the world's first atom bomb over Hiroshima.
Effect: 140,000 (80k of which were killed on site) were killed and 35,000 suffered injuries (radiation poisoning, etc...) -
VJ Day
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Who: The Japanese
What: Admitted defeat to the Allies.
Effect: The U.S. won the war, defeating the German's and the Japanese.
