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World War II

By SydneyD9540
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    World War II

  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
    1. Japan's Kwantung Army invades Manchuria
    2. Japan required momre raw material for their growing army and operations.
    3. Ultimately led to the invasion of Pearl Harbor

  • Rape of Naning

    Rape of Naning
    1. Japan attacked the capital of China
    2. China retreated and then Japan burned Nanking
    3. The General was found guilty after WW2 and executed

  • German Blitzkrieg

    German Blitzkrieg
    1. Germany used a new military tactict to invade Poland
    2. They needed a new plan for invading
    3. Took over many countries in a very short time

  • Operation Barbossa

    Operation Barbossa
    1. Germany invaded the Soviet Union
    2. Hitler feared losing control of oil supplies in the Balkans
    3. Set Rusia against Germany who eventually joined the allies, leaded to Germany's deafeat.

  • Pearl Harbour

    Pearl Harbour
    1. Japan launched a suprise attack on the U.S. naval fleet
    2. Japan wanted to get the upperhand on the United States
    3. The U.S. got involved in the war

  • Wannsee Converence

    Wannsee Converence
    1. German officials created a plan to exterminate millions of Jews.
    2. German's new the allies were gaining the upperhand in the war
    3. Millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    1. U.S. surrendered Bataan Peninsula
    2. Tha Japanese invasion of the Philippines
    3. Filipino and U.S. troops marched for 65 miles to prison camps, many casualties, led to name.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    1. Jewish-ghetto in Warsaw led armed revolt
    2. They didn't want to go to extermination camps
    3. Other ghettos were inspired to do so

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    1. Soviet defense protecting Stalingrad
    2. Germans attempted to invade, Russia defended
    3. One of the bloodiest wars in WW2, succesful stifling of German Army

  • Operation Gomorrah

    Operation Gomorrah
    1. Great Britain luanched an air raid on Hamburg Germany
    2. Payback for the bombings on London.
    3. 1,500 German civilians were killed

  • D - Day

    D - Day
    1. Allies invade Normandy, France
    2. Invasion to deafeat the Axis poweres
    3. The Allied liberation of Western Europe
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    Liberation of Concentration Camps

    1. Allied troops discover Jewish conconcentration camps in Europe
    2. As they were marching thorugh they found thousands of prisoners
    3. Camps were liberated, including Aushwitz, the largest one.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    1. Germany attempted to Blitzkrieg the Allied powers and split their defenses
    2. It was a major offensive attempt to regain bridgeheads.
    3. Germany was quelled by Allied powers when they formed a bulge, thus the name.

  • Operation Thunderclap

    1. Originally involved a enormous attack on Berlin, but was converted to smaller attacks on German cities in the Eastern Front
    2. An attempt to lower German morale to end the war
    3. The plan was eventually carried out and a bomombing on Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz, and Leipzig

  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    1. Last and biggest battle of WW2
    2. Allies needed airbases for invasion of Japan
    3. Allies got important air bases

  • V E Day

    V E Day
    1. Victory over Europe day
    2. German troops surrender 3.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    1. United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan
    2. Japan would not surrender
    3. Japan surrendered several days later

  • V J Day

    V J Day
    1. Celebration of victory over Japan
    2. Japan surrendered
    3. End of WW2