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Japanese invasion of China
conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. The war remained undeclared until December 9, 1941 and it was divided into three separate parts. A period of rapid advance in 1938 and a period of stalemate until 1944.
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rape of nanking
General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned. The Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male war prisoners, massacred another 50,000 male civilians and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages.
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German Blitzkreig
German Blitzkrieg was an military strategy that had air ground attacks and used panzer attacks to crush the poorly equipped troops.Their strategy was very effective this way. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/blitzkrieg_01.shtml -
Germany invasion of Poland
the invasion of poland was a blitzkrieg strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy's air capacity, railroads, communication lines followed by overwhelming number of troops, tanks and artillery. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland -
Fall of paris
When the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-France-World-War-II/The-fall-of-France-June-5-25-1940 -
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded
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Battle of Stalingard
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. It was one of the largest most bloodiest battles in modern warfare. More than two million fought in close quarter and more than two million died during the war. -
Bataan Death March
Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the American and Filipino defenders of Luzon were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army held out despite a lack of naval and air support. Finally, on April 9, with his forces crippled by starvation and disease, U.S. General Edward King Jr. surrendered his approximately 75,000 troops at Bataan
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Battle of Midway
It was an epic clash between the U.S. marines and the imperial Japanese Navy that lasted six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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Allied invasion of Italy
On July 10, 1943, the Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Within three days, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore. On August 17, Patton arrived in Messina before Montgomery, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily and winning the so-called Race to Messina.
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operation Gomorrah
Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July.The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. 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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D-Day
Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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Liberation of concentration camps
As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
It was an epic military battle between U.S. marines and the imperial army of japan and 750 off the coast of japan was airfields where japan much artillery for the fighting.
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. More than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan.
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VE Day
The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
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VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The German troops’ failure to divide Britain, France and America with the Ardennes offensive paved the way to victory for the allies.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
