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Japanese Invaded China
The decision of invading China were made by the Japanese Army and politicans either friendly to the Army or intininated by it. Politicans who disturbed the military were likely to be assasinated. The reasons for the invasion were primarily economic. The Japanese wanted to control the resources of China, both mineral resources and agricultural production. The Japanese also wanted control over the vast Chinese market where Japanese industrial products could be sold. -
Rape of Nanking
In the year of 1937, Japanese troops, after the invasion of china, poured into the city of Nanking raping, murdering and enslaving Chinese woman of all ages for the entertainment and pleasure of seeing Chinese woman suffer. for six weeks Nanking for men but for woman especially became a reality nightmare. At least twenty thousand woman were raped in Nanking in the first four weeks of the Japanese occupation, and many were mutilated and killed after the Japanese troops were done with them. -
Germany's Invasion of Porland
German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the blitzkrieg strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps also massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. Once the German forces had plowed their way through devastating a swath of territory infantry moved in, picking off any remaining resistance. -
Fall of Paris
Paris falls into German control. Imperialist Germany wants to control all lands with German people to unite them. This let Germany control Paris for more than a month. -
Germany's Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The term blitzkrieg was in fact never used in the title of a German military manual or handbook. Nor is it to be widely found in the memoirs or correspondence of German generals. The word was used in the Wehrmacht during World War II -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 3.9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions -
Wannsee Conference
Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution. The nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population -
Battan Death March
Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile, (hence why it's called the death march). Many died on this march alone because of starvation or dehydration. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on pearl harbor. -
Operation Gomorrah
Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids, on the evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid. -
D-Day
June 1944 was a major turning point of World War II, particularly in Europe. Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable to mass sufficient men and material to risk an attack in northern Europe. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was a code made that was never dismantled. Churchhill had instigated the mass bombings -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. The battle was marked by changes in Japanese defense tactics–troops. The Japanese fought from an elaborate network of caves. -
Battle of Okinawa
It involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese. The Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks. A series of defense lines across the island, both north and south of the American landing beaches, enabled the Japanese to start it. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. -
VJ Day
VE Day in may, 9 1945 was known as the end of the war in Europe when Germany surrendered its armed forces to the allies. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
In the years of 1944 and 1945 the allies freed prisoners of war from Nazi Germany concentration camps and several other killing centers in attempt to do nothing but the right thing. -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and another one on the city of Nagasaki in attempt to provoke the Japanese to surrender to the Americans. the bombing however instead destroyed 90% of the city's population and or injured those who were a least mile away from the bombing. -
Battle of Bulge
It was a major German offensive, launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. The end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
