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Japanese invasion of China
(1) On July,7,1937 The empire of japan invadied the peoples republic of china. Aimed with the idea of expanding thier borders in search of raw materials. The japanese also wantded to influences other parts of the world politically and militarily; while gainig acess to food and labour sources.
(2)China emerged from the war nominally a great military power but economically weak.Large swathes of the prime farming areas had been ravaged by the fighting and there was starvation in the wake of the w -
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German invasion of Poland
On September 1st 1939 the german army invaded poland from the north, south, and west. This invasion subsequently began World War II,
German propaganda used as a pretext to claim that German forces were acting in self-defence.Poland was divided among Germany, the Soviet Union, and Slovakia. -
German Bltizkrieg
During the years 1939 through 1940 the germans lauched a blitzkrieg or "ligting war" agasint multile countries quickly gaing ground. Such places as Poland,belgium and france came under heavy attack. -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, commencing on 22 June 1941. About 4 million soliders from the axis powers engaed soviet troops on a 1,800 mile long front -
Pearl harbor
The Pearl harbour suprise attacks were a suprise military attack by the Japanenese on a us navy base in hawwaii. Destroying some of the unitded states pacfic fleet. It also was the main cause of america's invovlement in world war 2. -
Wannsee Confrence
The Wannsee Confrence held on January 20 1942 was a meeting of the senior nazi leaders to propose the "final soultion" to he Jewish question. Whic they would all be deportded and killed in poland. -
Batlle of Stalingrad
One of the most major battles in WW2 in which Nazi Germany and it's allies fought the soviet union for control of the city Stalingrad. Resluting in heavey axis losses and the star of germany being pushed out of russia. -
Operation Gomorrah
The Battle of Hamburg, codenamed Operation Gomorrah, was a campaign of air raids beginning 24 July 1943 and lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials.[5] -
Allied invasion of italy.
The Allied Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943. -
Invasion of Normandy
The invasion of Normandy was a joint operation by the allies in the summer of 1944 to liberate occupied france from nazi control.Later leading to allied victory over Hitler, -
Operation thunderclap
Operation thunderclap was the code name for a canceled attack on Berlin in 1944. Reconsidered in 1945 it was dwclined agin due to improbabilty to work. -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the bulge was a major german offensive during the final years of ww2. Hoping to separate allied forces so Hilter could just take on on force at a time instead of 2, with supplies and men low nearing the end of the war. -
Battle of Iwo Jima.
The battle for Iwo Jima was a large engagement by U.S.Armed Forces and the japanese imperial army. Mainly to capture the whole island and it's airfeilds to use as a staging are to attack the Japanese main islands. -
Batlle of okinawa
Codenamed "Operation iceberg" was a battle between US marines and Japanese forces, for control of the final island.before the final U.S. invasion plan of mainland Japan. -
V E Day
The day the nazis surrenderd to the allied powers. ending the war in eroupe. -
Dropping of the atomic bomb.
On april 6th and 9th the Us dropped to atomic bombs on japaenese citys Nagasaki and hiroshima. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. On September 2, -
VJ Day
Victory over japan day, Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II,
