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Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China was the largest Asian war in the 20th century, accounting for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War. The numbers range anywhere between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes related to the invasion. The war was the result
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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German Blitzkrieg
On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agree to divide control of occupied Poland roughly along the Bug River–the Germans taking everything west, the Soviets taking everything east.
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Operation Barbarossa
On this day in 1941, over 3 million German troops invade Russia in three parallel offensives, in what is the most powerful invasion force in history.
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Pearl Harbor
At 7:55 a.m. a swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes descended on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
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Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942.
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Battle of Midway
United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.An important turning point in the Pacific.
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion
On April 19, 1943, a day of Jewish passover, Himmler sent more than 2,000 Waffen SS soldiers to combat the Jewish resistance. German tanks, howitzers, machine guns, and flamethrowers were met with Jewish pistols, rifles, homemade grenades, and Molotov cocktails. The Jews were able to fend off the German assault for 28 days. By May, 56,065 Jews were dead.
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Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany by night, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week”. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destructive raids. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.
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Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the landing on mainland Italy that took place on September 3, 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily. The main invasion force landed around Salerno on September 9, 1943 on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria and Taranto.
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D-Day
The day the 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.
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Liberations of Concentration Camps Begin
On July 23, 1944, Soviet forces entered and overtook the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers marking the beginning to liberations of Nazi camps
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Battle of the Bulge
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault against a mere 80,000 Americans. The battle raged for three weeks, and would not end until better weather enabled American aircraft to take action.
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Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August of 1944. The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, but was again rejected as being impractical.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
On this day the U.S. Marines’ invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched. Soon as the Marines made their way onto the island, and by evening, more than 550 Marines were dead with an additional 1,800 wounded. When the American flag was finally raised on Iwo Jima, the memorable image was captured in a famous photograph that later won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Battle of Okinawa
On this day in 1945 50,000 U.S. combat troops of the 10th Army land on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. More than 1,300 ships converged on the island, finally putting ashore 50,000 combat troops on April 1. The Americans quickly seized two airfields and advanced inland against nearly 120,000 Japanese army, militia, and labor troops.
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Victory in Europe Day
Generally known as VE Day, Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8,1945, 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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Atomic Bomb Droppings in Japan
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured.
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Victory over Japan Day
On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be Victory over Japan day, otherwise known as VJ day.
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