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japanese invasion of china
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan -
rape of nanking
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
germanys invasion of poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War and in Germany as the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss , was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union. -
German blitzkrieg
The first known use of the word blitzkrieg in an English publication occurred in an article in Time magazine in September 25, 1939, discussing the Polish campaign. (lighting warfare) -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries. German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front. -
Operation Barbarossa
The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
D-day
the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
Liberation of the concentration camps
These concentration and slave-labour camps, located throughout the Reich, were different from the extermination camps. Although the concentration camps were also places of appalling suffering and death, the authorities 'merely' incarcerated the inmates - political and religious prisoners, criminals, resistance activists, deserters, shirkers, and internees - at these sites, rather than exterminating them. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
VE Day
The day Europe won against the Nazis. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
A highly destructive bomb dropped to take Japan out of the war -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II.
