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Japanese invasion of China
It was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. (AKA The Second Sino-Japanese War)
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Rape of Nanking
It was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China.
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Germany's invasion of Poland
The German invaded Poland from the North, South, and West. The Polish forces withdrew and this gave the Germans an undisputed advantage, after the Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock German and Soviet forces gained full control
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German Blitzkrieg
German forces attacked using the Blitzkrieg method, British and French commanders thought they would move through central Belgium and rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack.
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Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise Japanese military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Bataan Death March
The imperial Japanese Army forcibly transferred 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American POW's.
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Battle of Midway
The United States defeated Japan in one of the most naval battles of WWII, six months after Pearl Harbor.
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Battle of Stalingrad
Germans saw the conquest of Stalingrad as essential to their campaign in southern Russia, since from this strategic point on the Volga River they could launch further assaults in the Caucasus. It was one of the bloodiest battle in history with nearly 2 million military and civilian casualties.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
An act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
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Allied invasion of Italy
The Allies, Britain and the U.S.'s objectives were to remove Italy from World War II, secure the Mediterranean Sea and force Germany to divert some divisions from the Russian front and other German divisions from northern France, where the Allies were planning their cross-Channel landing. The plan was simple, the northern forces would throw a net across the Italian peninsula while the British army chased the Germans into it from the south. -
Liberation of concentration camps
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target.
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Battle of the Bulge
The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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Operation Thunderclap
It was a proposal to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front and to demonstrate to the German population that the air defenses of Germany were weak.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle where the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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Battle of Okinawa
A major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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VE Day
A public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Potsdam Declaration
It defined the terms for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, 1945, U.S. President, U.K. Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, they faced war.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
President Truman ordered a bombing to avoid american casualties and bring the war to a speedy end, he hired Enola Gay to drop a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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VJ Day
This is the day Imperial Japan surrendered in WWII.
www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
