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Japanese Invasion of China
This battle was also called the Second Sino Japanese war. The japanese invaded china trying to take it over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War -
Germany invasion of Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939 said that Germany was be partitioned between the two of them, so Germany decided to take of poland. It only took a few weeks for Germany to take over Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland -
German Blitzkrieg
They also called this the Lightning war. It perserves human lives. Germany tried this tactic out and the poland war, it kinda worked but it worked really good in the Belguim, Netherlands, and France.
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Fall of Paris
This marks the day that the Germans invaded Paris. It is also known as the fall of France. German armour passed the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France.
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Operation Barbarossa
The NAZIs tried to invade the soviet union in june 1941. They were some of the bloodiest battles in history. It was the largest Military Operation in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor
Also known as the battle of pearl harbor. To the Japanese it was called operation AL. It was near Honolulu Hawaii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor -
Wannasee Conference
They got 15 of the highest ranked NAZI'S to create a final solution. The solution was to eliminate all the jews in europe. There was about 11 million jews living in Europe at this time.
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Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula. 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
An act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto. In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. 2 million jew that survived in the ghettos were deported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising -
Battle of Midway
Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, The us Navy defeated a attacking Japanese fleet. This is a big turning point in the Pacific campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway -
Operation Gomorrah
This was the largest firestorms raised by the royal airforce. It killed 42,000 and wounded 37,000. The bombing was highly concentrated and also created an updraft of super-heated air which created a 1,500-foot-high tornado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II -
Allied invasion of Italy
This was the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War Il. After completing the invasion and capture of Sicily by mid-August 1943, the next Allied objective was the invasion of the Italian mainland. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-invade-italian-mainland -
D-Day
This is one of the ugliest battles in history. It was the largest amphibious attack in history. 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France https://www.army.mil/d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
This is a major German offensive campaign located in a densly forested area. Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by surprise.
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Operation Thunderclap
It was a plan to bomb the eastern cites in germany. It was used to disrupt transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.
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Battle of the bulge
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Battle of Okinawa
They also called this operation iceberg. It consisted of a few small battles on the islands of Ryukyu. But it also included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific.
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VE Day
This is the day that they consider victory day in Europe. When the allied forces took over the NAZIs forces and made the surrender. The soviet army loses over 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first deployed atomic bomb. IT killed about 140,000 people. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
VJ Day
August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. The final end to WW11 was here. President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/September/vjday.htm
