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Invasion of Manchuria
During September of 1931 Japanese claimed that the Chinese soldiers has sabotaged the railway and they had attacked the Chinese Army but the Chinese had just executed spy who was Japanese. The Chinese Army didn't end up fighting back because they knew the Japanese would be wanting the excuse to invade Manchuria and China went and appealed to the League of Nations. -
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1. Prewar Events
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler emergence as chancellor started on January 30,1933 marked a was very crucial and a big turning point for Germany and the rest of the world. Hitlers plan was to do away with politics and to make Germany a powerful and to unite it into one-party state and his plan embraced by much of German population. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
Ethiopia was a two independent African nation at the time the invasion happened on October 3, 1935 by Fascist Italy which was under the leader of Benito Mussolini. The reason why Mussolini invaded Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige. -
Munich Conference
The Munich agreement which happened on September 30, 1938 was a settlement in which was reached by Germany, Great Britain. And other countries like France and Italy which permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland that was located in western Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
The Nazis in Germany torched synagogues and did other hateful things like vandalize Jewish homes, Schools and businesses and took 100 Jews life. After the Kristallnacht which was another name for the "Night of Broken Glass" and 30,000 Jewish men were put into concentration camps. -
Non-Aggression Pact
This was shortly before WW11 had broken out in Europe enemies like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had shocked the world by signing the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This meant that the two countries had agreed on taking no military involvement against one another for 10 years. -
Invasion of Poland
After heavy shelling and and the bombing Warsaw ended up surrendering to the Germans on September 27, 1939. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland and happened on September 17, 1939. -
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2. Europe
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Invasion of France (include Dunkirk)
Dunkirk was a failure for the Germans they allowed 300,000 troops and also let 100,000 French soldiers to escape. The Germans ended up winning the battle. -
Battle of Britain
Germany was wanting to invade Great Britain but the first thing they had to do first was to destroy Great Britain's Royal Air Force. The battle was won by Royal Air Force Fighter Command (RAF) and they blocked the possibility of invasion and they had created the conditions for Great Britain's survival and they defeated the Nazi Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a US naval base the Japanese had did a surprise attack on the US naval base on December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor pulled the US closer in unity and it helped create the US into a world power. -
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3. Pacific
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Bataan Death March
This was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured allied soldiers which were Filipinos and Americans they marched 80 miles across to the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place on April 1942 which was during the time of WW11. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was fought during WW11 and its battle took place on June 5 1942 (US time zones June 4th-7th). The US navy ended up defeating attack from the Japanese against Midway Atoll. -
Normandy Invasion (D-day)
Allied forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces which they did so on the coast of Normandy, France. The allies had 150,000 soldiers they attacked and gained a victory this became the turning point for WW11 which happened in Europe. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was an attempt to push the allies who were on the front line west from Northern France all the way to Northern Belgium. And it was the largest battle fought by the Americans during WW11. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference brought together big three leaders which were Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. The main point of the meeting was to reestablish of the nations that had destroyed and they had also conquered by the Germans. -
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
In 1945 the US bounded forward in the central Pacific as combat and it reached to the point were it was the bloodiest crescendos. The US ended up winning the battle. -
V-E Day
The V-E day was to remember the unconditional surrender of the Nazi Germany to allied forces which was during 1945. This ended WW11 in Europe. -
Atomic Bombings of Japan
The US wanted to prevent the possibility that the Soviet Union would be able to occupy Japan. The US had the first atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and this happened on the 6th of August. -
V-J Day
V-J day stands for the victory in Japan day and this day marks a very important event that occurred when Japan imperial surrendered in WW11 in effect brought the war to an end.
