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Japanese invasion of China
Japanese began it take over of east Aisa in 1937 with a attack on China. On September 27, 1940, Japan signed the Seeking to curb Japanese aggression and force a withdrawal of Japanese forces from Manchuria and China by the US. -
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World War 2
The causes, events and people of the most destructive war in history. -
Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was were Japanese troops killed an 150,000 male war prisoners with an additional 50,000 male civilians and raped 20,000 women and girls of all ages. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in which both countries agreed to take no military action against each other for 10 years. Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany could invade Poland. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
6 am on 1 Sep Warsaw was hit by the first of many bombing raids while two German army groups invaded Poland from Prussia in the north and Slovakia in the south. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germen attack meaing lightning warfare the quick attacks helped germany take over it enemys in a few months. The germans used Blitzreig to attack enemys before they could ready there army -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched his armies eastward in a invasion of the Soviet Union over three million German soldiers and 3000 tanks want into Soviet territory. The invasion covered North Cape to the Black Sea a distance of 2000 miles. Barbarossa was the turning point in World War II for its failure forced the Nazis to fight a two-front war. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. The bombing lasted two hours and destroyed 20 American naval vessels eight battleships and almost 200 airplanes 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the attack President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazis meet to discuss the Final Solution for the Jews. First with shooting finaly with the gas vans. Chelmno Poland was killing 1,000 people a day and proved to be the solution to killing large groups of people at one time. -
Bataan Death March
75,000 Filipino and American troops begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan the prisoners marched 85 miles in six days and hundreds of Americans and Filipinos died. -
Battle of Midway
One of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during WW II in the four-day sea-and-air battle the U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four aircraft carriers while losing only one. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombing raid on Hamburg by night while America bombs it by day. When the bonbing ended more than 30,000 people died and 280,000 buildings were destroyed. Hitler refused to visit the cities as it bespoke end of the war. -
D-Day
Battle of Normandy which lasted from June to August 1944 resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control. The battle began on June 6 1944 known as D-Day, when 156,000 American and British forces landed on five beaches of the fortified coast of Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
Three German armies were launched into the deadliest battle of the war in the wests heavily forested Ardennes. A German shortage of fuel proved fatal to Hitler's army. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japanese troops and was attacked by three marine divisions after air and naval bombardment the Japanese defense troops no longer defended the beach line but concentrated inland defenses. -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa campaign was 287,000 troops of the U.S. Army against 130,000 soldiers of Japan. Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks by planes on one-way "suicide" missions -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe V-E Day was not celebrated until the 9th in Moscow with a radio broadcast from Stalin. -
Dropping of the A-bombs
8:16 a.m. A American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay droped the world's first atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
80,000 people are killed from the blast another 35,000 are injured an 60,000 die by the end of the year from fallout. Three days later a second A-bomb was droped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people. -
VJ Day
August 14 and August 15 have been known as "Victory over Japan Day,"
