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rape in nanking ww2
Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians
between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanking, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks. killed 1/2 the population all because they hate the chinees -
Japanese invasion of china
japan invaids China. Chinese victory as part of the Allied victory in the Pacific War. To acquire resources, mainly manpower. Japan occupied nearby Korean peninsula gain food. 75% of Korean agriculture was confiscated -
germany invation of poleand
well germany came to poleand an invaited.
On the other side of Poland was the Russian provinces and Hitler did not have the supplies to start a war with Russia. -
Operation barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. launched a invation on soviot landf. -
pearl harbor
what got us got involved in ww2.
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours.President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan -
Wannsee Conference
On January, 20, 1942, the wannsee conference also called the final solution was when all the nazis got together and formed a plan to wipe out the entire 11 million person population of the jews -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War IIThe Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942 demolished the Japanese military's perception that their homeland was immune from air attack. They realized that in order to protect Japan, their defensive perimeter had to be extended eastward. Midway, a tiny island a thousand miles from Hawaii became the target -
Kasserine Pass
This is where the Britsh and Americans fought in North Africa against the Germans and it was one of our worst defeats. -
Operation Gomorrah
This was in opperation where the british went in with bombers and raided Hamburg Germany and then the American came in during the day. -
allied invasion of italy
the United States and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, looked ahead to the invasion of occupied Europe and the final defeat of Nazi Germany. The Allies decided to move next against Italy, hoping an Allied invasion would remove that fascist regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the near future. The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. -
D-day (Invasion of Normandy)
D-Day was when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the coast of France’s Normandy heavily guarded region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
Where Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwestern Europe by doing a suprise blitzkrieg. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This is when our marines went and invaded Japan because we needed to get a naval base nere the japanese coast. -
Battle of Okinawa
This was the last and biggest sea battle. We went and invaded japanese for the last time and created another air base on the japanese island -
dropin atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War japan serender -
vj day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
got tired of being bombed and done lost enoughf
