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coninued...
The Chinese sufferes continued territorial encroachment from the Japanese, using their Manchurian base. (the whole north part of the country was graduually taken over) -
Japanese innvation of China
Japana invades Manchuria,China beccause of their vast natural resources.
Was turned into a normally independent state later called Manchukuo, but the Chinese Emperor who ruled it was a puppet of the Japanese. Japan was later condemmed from its aggression towrds China after Chine appealed from the leaguue of Nations. -
Skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops
This conflict became known as the Marco Polo Bridge incident. THis fight sparked a full-blown conflict, The second Sino- Japanese war. -
German-Soviet Pact
The German-Soviet Pact , which was stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Pland without the fear of soviet intervation -
Germany invades Poland
The polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Britain and France declares war on Germany
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"the lightning war"
This was an operating concept developed solution to the trench warfare of War world 1. Germany's Blitzrieng tactics overwhelmed Poland. It also crushed Denmark, Norway and the low countries in April-May 1940 and then finally France in Juune 1940. -
Warsaw surrenders
After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet union, smashing across the fontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles.
Germans had seriouus deficiencies (had severelt underestimated their opponent) -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attcked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack lasted just two hours.nThe Japanese managed to destroy nearl 20 Anerican naval vessels. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and 1,000 were wounded.
This was when America finally joined ww2. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee conference was a meeting of the Nazi official in the Berlin suuburb of Wannsee to plan the final solution to the so-called Juuuudenfrage (Jewish question)
The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy towrd the Jews.
They planned on rounding up all Jews throughout Europe, transport them eastward, and organizing them into labouuuur gangs. (also leaving them in hard living conditions)
The men seated at the table were among the elite of the Reich. More than half of them held doctora -
Operation Gomorrah
Onthis day, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany by night while America bombedi it by day in its own "Blitz week" -
Normandy invasion
(lasted from juun to August)
The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history.
D-day resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
their was many difficulty conditions facing American soldiers in the island near the Japanese coast.
the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Battle of Okinawa
(April 1- UJune 22, 1925)
It was the last and biggest of the Pacific Islands Battles.
At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. -
Victory in Euurope
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate victory because of their victory in defeating the Nazi war Machine.
It was the day when German troops throughout Europe finally surrendered to their soviet antagonists. -
Atomic bombing
An American B-29 bomber dropped the first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.
Abouut 80.000 were injured and at least another 60,000 died by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demanded the order to drop the atomic bomb to prevent much greater loss of american lives. -
victory over Japan
The day in which it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ended World war 2.
(VJ day)
also on September 2, 1945, Japan formanly surrender took place aboard the U.s.s Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bauy coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans launched their last major offensive of the war. This was an attempt to puush the Allied front line west from nothern France to Northwestern Belgium.
Their assauult came in early morning at the weakest part of the Allied line.
One particularly effective German trick was the use of English-speaking German commandos who infiltrated American lines and, using captured U.S. uniforms, trucks, and jeeps, impersonated U.S. military and sabotaged communications.
