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Japanese invasion of China
used a scuffle between China in Japanese troops at the Marco polo Bridge as a pretext to launch an invasion of northern China.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_war.htm -
Rape of Nanking
The fighting moved to the south in August when the Japanese attacked Shanghai and pursued the retreating Chinese army up the Yangtze valley to the national capital at Nanking. The Japanese began their attack on that city early in December, forcing its surrender on December 13. Then the horror began.http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nanking.htm -
Germany's invasion of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had bega.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland -
German blitzkrieg
Germans unleashed their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium.http://www.2worldwar2.com/blitzkrieg.htm -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. -
Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477 -
Operation Gomorrah
Bombing of Hamburg. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.The wake of the allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. http://www.army.mil/botb/ -
Operation Thunderclap
Had been under discussion within the Allied Command . The proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day,to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It then marked the end of World War II in Europe.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day ,Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II. September second The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
