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Japanese Invasion of China
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The Japanese invaded China because they were becoming more imperialistic and they needed more natural resources that they werent able to get from their homeland. They also felt like they needed more land. Once Japan had attacked Manchuria, they establishe a puppet state called Manchukuo. The Japanese didnt leave China until the end of World War. This puppet state is very similar to the puppet state of Vichy, France. -
Rape of Nanking
Nanking
Over a 6 week period in late 1937, Imperial Japanese Army forces murdered more than a 100,000 people in Nanking, China. This included both soldier and civilians. These horrific events were known was the Rape of Nanking due to the fact that between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. The city was left in ruins and it would take decades for both the city and citizens to recover from the savage attacks. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland
In August of 1939, the Hitler and Stalin made the German-Soviet Pact which stated that Poland was to be shared between them. This made it so Hermany could attack Poland without the Soviets intervention. On September 1st, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion due to lack of prepairment. -
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Germany's Blitzkrieg
The German word Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. German forces first used Blitzkrieg in Poland before using the tactic sucessfully in the invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Greece and France until the end of the war. -
Fall of Paris
On June 14 in 1940, the citizens in Paris awake to the sound of a German voice annouzing that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. so German tropps could enter and occupy Paris. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, almost 2 million Paris citizens had already fled. The German Gestapo arrested, interrotated, and spyed through the day. A giant swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe as the people of Paris are trapped in their capital. -
Pearl Harbor
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On December 7th, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor was meant to neautralize the US Pacific Fleet and protect Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch Easy Indies. They sought out access to natural resources such as oil and rubber. Soon after the attack, the US declared war on Japan and because of that, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. -
Bataan Death March
Death March
On April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. An estimation of 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. The conditions were intense heat and subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands died in what is now known as the Bataan Death March. -
Battle of Midway
Midway
On June 5 in 1942, Japanese Commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entire Japanese navy in hopes to widen its sphere of influence. This attack on Midway was a disaster for Japan and resulted in the loss of 322 aircraft and 3,500 men, They were forced to withdraw before they could even land. -
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
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Allied Invasion of Italy
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On July 10, 1943, the Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Within three days, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore.On September 3, Montgomery’s 8th Army began its invasion of the Italian mainland and the Italian government agreed to surrender to the Allies. -
D-Day
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The Battle of Normany last from June 1944 to August 1944 and resulted in the Allies liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. On June 6, 1944, or D-Day, was when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of France's heavily fortified coast. It was one of the largest amphibious attacks in history. -
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
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In the final stages of the war, the Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other camps. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
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Battle of the Bulge
bulgeIn December of 1944, Hitler tried to split the Allies ameries in Northwest Europe by using blitzkrieg. American units were caught off-guard as they fought desperate battles to stop the German advance. The Allies line took on the appearance of a large bulge, which is where the battle got its name. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
Operation Thunderclap
The Allies proposed to bomb the eastern-most citiest of Germany to disrupt transportation. They also wanted to demonstrate to the German population that the air defences of Germany were of little substance. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima
The American invasion of Iwo Jima was because of the need for a basr near the Japanese coast. The island was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops who fought from a network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and installations. Despite the conditions, the marinies wiped out the defending force only after a month. -
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Battle of Okinawa
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The battle of Okinawa had been the largest and last of the Pacific island battles. It involved 278,000 troops of the US Army against more only 130,000 Japanese soldiers. Air bases that were vital to the projected invasion of Japan were at stake. By the end of the battle, Japan had lost more than half of their soldiers while the Allies suffered more than 65,000 casualties. -
VE Day
VE DayVE or V day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8 in 1945 for the victory in Europe. That day marks the acceptance by the Allies of World War 2 of Germany's Nazis to surrender its armed forces unconditionally. That day, there was barely any criminal activity despite the fact that the behavoir of many was wild. -
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Potsdam Declaration
conferenceThe Potsdamn Conference, held near Berlin, was the last World War 2 meetings held by Truman, Churchill and Stalin. They talked about establishing a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administation of Germany. The "Big Three" heads of state arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. They also issued a declaration demanding "unconditional surrender" from Japan. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb On March 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Immediately after the drop, more than 80,000 people died and more continued to die due to radiation exposure. Three day after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki. This time only killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
VJ Day
VJ Day
Known as "Victory over Japan Day”, VJ Day was the day that Japan had surrendered to the Allies. In doing so, this effectively ended World War II. The term has also been associated with the day September 2 of 1945 when Japan's formal surrender took place aboard the USS Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Many months after the surrender of the Nazis, Japan's capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to an end.
