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The Holocaust
Systematic murder by Nazi Germany of approximately six million Jews. The Nazi party decides to wipe out the Jewish popluation. Jews were forced to wear yellow star of David to show they were Jewish and they were later sent to concentration camps where they were murdered and kept for months. The US and other countries did not know about the concentration camps until after WW2 was over. -
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Japan invades China
Military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. China fought Japan, with economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. Japan invades Manchuria in July of 1937 and other issues like the RApe of Nanking occured from Japans invansion. This was a cause of Japan wanting to spread its territory and take over other countires and land. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich where the leaders of Great Britain, France and Italy allowed Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Non-Aggression Pact
A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland. -
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Germany invades Poland
Joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War in Europe. -
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Blitzkrieg
means "lightening War". Military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces by German forces. They would strike fast. -
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Battle of Britain
was the first major air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. It was fought entirely by air forces and was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign. -
Lend-Lease Act Signed
Lend-Lease Act is signed -
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Lend-Lease Act
program under which the United States supplied France, Great Britain, the Republic of China and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material during WW2 -
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Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. About four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded Soviet Russia. -
Pearl Harbor
Lagoon Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu was bombed by Japanese forces. It was the immediate cause of the United States to enter World War II -
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Bataan Death March
Forcible transfer of the US and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan Peninsula to San Fernando. -
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Battle of Midway
Crucial and decisive naval battle where the United States Navy decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, also led to the liberation of France from Nazi control. Contiributed to an Allied Victory in the war. -
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Battle of the Bulge
major German offensive campaign that was launched in densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in France, Belgium, and Luxembourb on the Western Front that was toward the end of World War II -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibous assualt in the Pacific War during WW2. The 82 long battle included a long campaign of island hopping and the Allies approached Japan and fought on Okinawa to end the battle. -
VE Day
Hitler commits sucide and the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Marks the end of World War II in Europe. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities. The two bombings killed at least 129,000. Only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
VJ Day
Japan surrenders and ends World War II.
