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Japan invades China
The Chinese-Japanese dispute in July 1931 the Wanpaoshan Incident was followed by the Mukden Incident, on September 18, 1931. The same day as the Mukden Incident, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, which had decided upon a policy of localizing the incident, communicated its decision to the Kwantung Army command. In violation of orders from Tokyo Kwantung Army commander in chief General Shigeru Honjō ordered his forces to proceed to expand operations all along the South. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust commonly used to refer to the systematic murder by Nazi Germany of approximately six million Jews and the destruction of their communities.The Nazi genocide and ethnic cleansing efforts did not begin as a specific plan to gas Jews and others in concentration camps. It grew from spontaneous murders to planned massacres of Jewish communities, to the establishment of an industrial apparatus for the efficient, wholesale slaughter of a people. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference to discuss Hitler's demands and attempt to reach an agreement that would prevent Germany from invading additional territory.they agreed to cede the Sudetenland to Germany and in exchange, Hitler agreed not to invade any other territories.This destroyed his credibility with Parliament. He was replaced by Winston Churchill shortly thereafter. -
Germany invades Poland
Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II. Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers stage an attack on the radio in the Silesian City of Gleiwitz.
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Battle of Britain
In World War II series of arial combants took place between the British and the German aircraft. The battle was the first major campaign to be fought by air forces. The battle also had the largest and the most aerial bombing campaign to the date. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lease Act empowered the president to sell, transfer, lend, or lease war supplies such as equipment, food, and weapons to American allies during World War II. The Lease was enacted to provide aid to China and the British Empire. The eligibility under its provisions wasexpanded to include all Allies who were essential to the maintenance of the security of the United States.With agreements with countries where American troops were stationed provided that the troops would receive comparableaid. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.On June 22, 1941. over 4.5 million Axis troops invaded the USSR along a 1,800-mile front.The operation was named after Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire, a leader of the Third Crusade. Barbarossa's goal was the rapid conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union west of a line connecting the cities of Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan, often referred to as the A-A line. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. The attack sank or beached a total of twelve ships and damaged nine others. The attack took the country by surprise, especially the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. -
Bataan Death March
The march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. The prisoners were forced to march north to San Fernando and then taken by rail in cramped and unsanitary boxcars farther north to Capas.During the main march which had lasted 5 to 10 days, depending on where a prisoner joined it the captives were beaten, shot, bayoneted, and, in many cases, beheaded. -
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.The attack on the island of Midway,which also a feint to Alaska by a smaller fleet, was a ploy by the Japanese to draw the American carrier fleet into a trap.The remaining American ships destroyed, the Japanese hoped to avenge the bombing of the Japanese home islands two months earlier. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II.The battle was fought in the winter of 1942-1943 and ended with the surrender of the entire German army. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies. The battle bled German army dry in Russia and army was in full retreat. -
D-Day
Led by Eisenhower there was over 150,000 troops stormed into the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France.After a predawn crossing of the English Channel by an armada of ships, tens of thousands of well-trained American, British, Canadian, and other Allied troops stormed the beaches. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans launched the major offensive of the war. The Ardennes offensive and the Battle of the Bulge attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.The area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line and was the largest fought on the Western front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The capture was apart of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the Far East,Amercia'a desire to finally destroy Japans merchant fleet so the Japanese mainland coudn't be supplied from sectors of South East Asia which japan did not have control over.The destruction of Japans remaining industrial base by the bombing of it by the American airforce. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States used a massive atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb is the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city and killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again but this time on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
President Harry S.Truman announced that the Japanese Government had agreed to comply in full with the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan. Although the Japanese administration under General Koiso Kuniaki did not officially surrender with a signed document until 2nd September. -
Warsaw Pact
Thw Warsaw Pact was an alliance creating a organised and Russian dominated, military among control and political ties. The Pact formalized and acted as one of the two key power blocs in the Cold War. The Pact troops operating under the Brezhnev Doctrine occupied and ensured compliance with Russia against member states. -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa was also known as Operation Iceberg it took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies.