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Japanese Expansion
Japan was an industrialized country, but it had few natural resources. The United States was its principal supplier of raw materials prior to 1939, but the Japanese had already begun to look elsewhere.Japanese expansion began in 1931–32 with the seizure of Manchuria, in northeastern China. In the following years Japan seized more territory bordering on Manchuria. By 1937 the Japanese had secured most of northeastern China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing. -
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World War ll
world war 2 involved virtually every part of the world in the years 1939 to 1945 the axis power were Germany, Italy, and japan and the allies were great Britain, united states, France, and china. -
The Beginning Of The War (Invasion of Poland)
The war was started by Hitler. The early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland tried to fight back but they were taken over. After Germany took Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Soviet Union also invaded Poland and split it with Germany. -
Third Event Of World War
The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17. Poland was soon forced to surrender. Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland between them.Some Polish government officials, soldiers, pilots, and naval units managed to escape the swift Nazi and Soviet advances. They fled to Britain, where they continued the fight against Germany with the Allies. -
Four Event Of World War
The French government moved to Tours on June 11 and later to Bordeaux. The Germans occupied Paris on June 14. The French cabinet, defeatist and deeply divided, asked for an armistice. Marshal Philippe the 84-year-old hero of World War I, became premier.The Franco-German armistice was signed on June 22 in the forest. It was signed in the same railway car in which France had dictated its terms to a beaten Germany 22 years before. -
France falls (Second Event Of The War)
On May 13 German armored forces, in a surprise move broke through the lightly defended Ardennes Forest area north of the Maginot Line. The battle of France began on June 5. The French army fell apart. On June 22 the French gave up. Some people called the Free French kept fighting. After France gave up Italy went to war with France and Britain. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japan surprise attacked the United States by bombing them in Hawaii. They wanted to show that they were the strongest in Asia. More than 180 American planes were destroyed in the attack. This attack ended the US ignoring the war and caused them to go to war with Japan. Days later, they went to war with Germany and Italy. -
Japan Invades Malaysia
The Japanese 25th army, under General Yamashita Tomoyuki, invaded Malaya on December 8, 1941, and overran the peninsula in an eight-week campaign. Their experience in jungle fighting and ability to make amphibious landings behind the British forces were key to their success. When the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse tried to intercept Japanese troop convoys, Japanese aircraft sank them. This ended British naval efforts in the area. -
Bombing Of Hiroshima
The US attacked Japan. The atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces at about 8:15 on the morning of August 6. Most of the city was destroyed, and estimates of the number of people killed outright or shortly after the blast have ranged upward from 70,000. Deaths and illnesses from radiation injury continued to mount through the succeeding decades. It became a center for peace.
