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Rape of Nanking
Over a period of six weeks Imperial Japanese Army Forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Chinese city of Nanking. http://www.history.com/topics/nanjing-massacre -
German Blitzrike
Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons along a narrow front. -
German invasion of Poland
Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers then Germany to attacked Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, -
Fall of Paris
German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.German forces occupied Paris after a chaotic period of flight of the French government that led to a collapse of the French army. -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Pearal Harbor
A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force with great loss of American lives and ships. -
Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese demanded permission to enter Chinese territory to recover a missing soldier. They Chinese refused. So the Japanese said they would declare war if they didn't let them in and the Chinese still refused.So the war began. https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Sino-Japanese-War -
Bataan death march
75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps after the U.s. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
There was one month of fighting when the Germans decided to blow up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw to signaling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto. -
Allied invasion of Italy
When the British invaded Italy. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war.it was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
VE day
The day to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. -
Battle of ikanawa
It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Potsdam declaration
Order issued by the United States, Great Britain, and China calling for the unconditional surrender of Japan. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
when the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ day
The day that the Japanese surrendered and ended the WW2. -
D Day
The day the battle of Normandy began on June 6, 1944 -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties than their Japanese counterparts.
