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Rape of Nanking
Picture: http://www.emptykingdom.com/tag/the-rape-of-nanking/
This is taking place during the sino-Japanese war. Naking which is the capital of China falls to the Japanese and has to be moved to Hankou. Japanese General Matsui told his men to destroy the city of Nanking. The Japanese troops did horrible things to the chinese civilians.. (rope, torture, murder..)
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Spark of the Japanese Invasion of China
Picture: http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub5/item59.html There was a dispute between Japan and China by Beijing, China at the Marco Polo bridge. The Chinese kept backing up farther into China in hopes that buying time would help them. In the end the Japanese did not take over China.
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
Picture:http://www.dw.com/en/remembering-the-start-of-wwii/a-17891588
This is what started the war in Europe when Germany invaded Poland. To try and help Poland, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. But the French waited until spring to do something and by that time it was already to late.
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German Blitzkrieg
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It is a style of war that the Germans used. It is very short and rapid and with it you can take over a place very quickly. They quickly took over Poland and split it in half with the USSR. Following Poland was Denmark, Norwa, and the Baltic States to fall under Nazi control.
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Fall of Paris
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Germany gave the people of Paris a little time before totally taking over Paris. 2 million parisians fled before the German government came in and took over Paris. Canadian came in to help France, but the U.S. wanted to help but didnt want to go to war.
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Operation Barbarossa
Picture:http://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa
The Soviet Union was invaded by Germany and its allies. The invasion was going great for Germany and its allies. They were moving eastward very quickly, but with the USSR outnumbering them in troops the Germans had to retreat before it got to bloody. http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii -
Pearl Harbor
Picture:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/09/national/history/historian-seeks-to-clear-embassy-of-pearl-harbor-sneak-attack-infamy/
The Japanese attacked the United States Pearl Harbor so Congress decided to declare war on Japan. With going to war with Japan pretty soon the United State was going to war with the axis powers.
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Wannsee Conference
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Nazi officers and officials met with Adolf Eichmann who is the chief of the central office of Jewish Emigration. They met with one thing on their mind and that was how do we get rid of the Jewish people. Heydrich proposed sending them to concentration camps and their they would be worked to death, and the only objections to that is that it would be very time consuming.
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Bataan Death March
Picture: http://www.britannica.com/event/Bataan-Death-March
The U.S. surrendered the Bataan Peninsula on the Philippine island to the Japanese troops. The Japanese troops made about 75,000 American and Filipino troopss make a 65 mile tortous walk to prison camps. Thousands of them died along the way -
Start of the Battle of Midway
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SBD_8-B-11_on_USS_Hornet_Midway.jpg
American planes found the Japanese before the Japanese found them. Four of the Japanese carriers were lost and only one American carrier was lost. Many thought the Japanese were involunerable but this battle proved them wrong.
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Battle of Stalingrad
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The Nazi Army bombed Stalingrad a USSR city. Its considered to be the greatest battle in WWII. It stopped German advances into Russia and helped the allies in the war.
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Operation Gomorrah
Picture:http://blackwatchforums.co.uk/showthread.php?15183-Operation-Gomorrah-Firebombing-of-Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany is raided by British bombers at ngiht and then during the day the United States bombed ti. Britain was upset with Germany because Germany had bombed Britain before. Britain kept attacking Hamburg until November. The city of Hamburg was ruined after being attacked for that long. Hitler was starting to feel defeated.
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D-Day
Picture:http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_d-day_66_years_ago.html
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The western allies invaded France's Normady coast, which is not where Hitler thought the invasion was coming from. Hitler thought that their targets were further west. The allie powers had total control of the air. They were dropping troops through the air. Early morning is when the U.S., Canada, and British forces had taken 50 miles of beach.
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Battle of the Buldge
Picture:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/bulge/
Information:http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-bulge
German troops wanted to take the port of Antwerp. The Germans were ready for a fight but the port was only lightly gaurded and was easy to take over. They took it over in just three days.
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Operation Thunderclap
Picture:http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Thunderclap-Black-March-Unstoppable/dp/161200265X
The allie powers are bombing Germany from the air like crazy. It was supposed to make the German people feel like their government had failed to protect them.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Picture:http://www.nationalww2museum.org/focus-on/iwo-jima.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
Many battles were fought before this one to capture small islands to use for supplies. Iwo Jima only lasted about a month and we onlly lost around 6,500 Americans. In the end around 300 Japanese were still alive but they were taken prisoner to the USA.
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Battle of Okinawa
Picture:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_and_Ryukyu_Islands_campaign
Okinawa was the last major battle for a Pacific Island. Here we over powered the Japanese defenders, they had 130,000 while the US had around 180,000 troops. Not only did the Japanese military people die but so did many of their civilians.
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VE Day
Picture:http://www.capital-moments.com/ve-day-a-day-to-remember-for-past-and-present/
This is the day that the Germans quit and said they could no longer giht with the United States and Great Britain. It was a day for celebration. Surrender documents were signed in Berlin and eastern Germany. Now the German's main fear was being kept as a prisoner. But all the fighting didnt stop on the 8th in Silesia it wasnt until the 9th when the Germans surrendered.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
Picture:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
They figured if they were going to attack the Japanese home islands it would have to be by air because if they did it by ground we would lose way more troops. A bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by a American airplane. The bomb destroyed Hiroshima and when no surrender call was coming from the Japanese the U.S. dropped another bomb on Nagasaki.
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VJ Day
Picture and info:http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
The Japanese finally surrendered to the allies, and that was the end of world war 2. Some people say that VJ Day didnt happen until September 2 when Japan signed the papers on the U.S.S Missouri, sitting on Tokyo Bay.
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