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World War II
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Japenese Invasion of China
HISTCLO.comWHAT: On July 16, 1937, a few days after the beginning of Japan's undeclared war on China, Secretary Hull issued a statement of fundamental principles of international policy.
WHY: The Japanese bombing of Shanghai was the beginning of the Second Sino- Japanese War.
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Rape of Nanking
WHAT: The population of Nanking was subjected to an uncontrolled butchery that came to be known as "the Rape of Nanking." they wouldnt control the killing.
WHY:It became an uncontrolled butchery and became known as"rape if nanking."
EFFECT: This led to the invasion of the china by the japense population -
Fall Of Paris
WHAT: On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris.
WHY: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid.
EFFECT: French capital remained an open city-that is, there was to be no armed resistance to the Germa -
German Blitzkreig
WHAT:blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
WHY:Blitzkrieg relied on a military force be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soldiers).
EFFECT:Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. -
Operation of Barbaroosa
WHAT:was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941.
WHY:This happened because the germans invaded the soviet union.
EFFECT: This past the nonagression act between germany and the soviet union. -
Pearl Harbor
WHAT: Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory.
WHY:Pearl Harbor was intended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and hence protect Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, where it sought access to natural resources such as oil and rubber.
EFFECT:requiring all Japanese Americans to submit themselves for an internment. Propaganda made repeated use of the attack, because its effect was enormous and impossible to counter. -
wannsee conference
WHAT:was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942
WHY:The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.
EFFECT: every participant at the meeting knew that the ’Final Solution of the Jewish Question’ did not merely mean the deportation of Jews. -
Bataan Death March
WHAT: April 1942. The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando.
WHY:U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
EFFECT:1942 had famously promised to r -
D-DAY
WHAT: The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
WHY:Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces -
liberation of concentration camps
WHAT: Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.
WHY: the Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp.
EFFECT: theyre are no longer concentration camps to imprison people or to torture others and they were set free! -
Battle of the Bulge
WHAT:largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II
WHY:Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front.
EFFECT:the effect of lack of fuel was becoming evident as the Germans had to simply abandon their vehicles. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
WHAT: it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts
WHY:U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II
EFFECT: B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marianas -
VE DAY
WHAT: this was the victory day for europe. to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
WHY: This was the victory day for europe.
EFFECT: more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. -
Dropping Atomic Bombs
WHAT: The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
WHY:Germans were already defeated and the japenese continued to rage.
EFFECT: The seriousness of these radiation effects may be measured by the fact that 95 percent of the traced survivors of the immediate explosion who were within 3,000 feet suffered from radiation disease -
VJ Day
WHAT: news of the surrender was announced to the world.
WHY: the potsdam declaration was ordered that they surrender or they continue to suffer.
EFFECT: the japenese surrendered and they sign the treaty with the united states.
