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Japenese invasion of over china
Japanese sent a repair party in early November under the protection of Japanese troops.They were trying to take over china.Many people died. -
geramny invasion of poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939.Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany. -
Germqan BLitzkrieg
A militatry tactic use by the germans. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Fall of paris
World War II 1940
Germans enter Paris
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On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. President Roosevelt froze the American assets of the Axis powers, Germany and Italy. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Battle of midway
United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.Torpedo bombers became separated from the American dive-bombers and were slaughtered (36 of 42 shot down), but they diverted Japanese defenses just in time for the dive-bombers to arrive; some of them had become lost, and now by luck they found the Japanese.The Americans sank four fleet carriers–the entire strength of the task force–Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, with 322 aircraft and over five thousand sailor -
Battle of stailgrad
the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million.Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historian -
Allied invasion of italy
Army began its invasion of the Italian mainland and the Italian government agreed to surrender to the Allies.By the terms of the agreement, the Italians would be treated with leniency if they aided the Allies in expelling the Germans from Italy. Later that month, Mussolini was rescued from a prison in the Abruzzo Mountains by German commandos and was installed as leader of a Nazi puppet state in northern Italy. -
Battle of iwo jima
A major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The Marines lost 6,891 men killed and 18,070 wounded. Out of the 22,000 Japanese soldiers on the island, only 212 were taken prisoners. -
Batte of okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II.involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Ve day
Victory in Europe Day.Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. -
Droping of the atomic bomb
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties.So the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton 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. -
Vj day
formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri..Several months after the surrender of th enazi germans.Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
D-day
More than 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.More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.
