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Japanese Invasion of China
Japan invaded China seeing that it was weak and wanted its natural resources because Japan had none. Japan was criticized and stormed out of the League and it is estimated that 10 to 20 million Chinese died. -
Rape of Nanking
Their first concern was to eliminate any threat from the 90,000 Chinese soldiers who surrendered. To the Japanese, surrender was an unthinkable act of cowardice and the ultimate violation of the rigid code of military honor drilled into them from childhood onward. The Japanese were order to kill everyone. About 20 Americans and Europeans went and took over about 2.5 square miles in the middle of the city. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany invented a new way of fighting called blitzkreig, or lightning war. They needed an unseen way of fighting to destroy their opponents in battle. Using this style they were able to just plow through their enemies and win with ease. -
Germanys Invation of Poland
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Germany invaded Poland because of the Jews. Germany defeated the Polish army within weeks of the invation. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler sent three great army groups with three million soldiers and three thousand tanks. The invation covered a front to the North Cape to the Black sea. The Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and destroyed 200 planes and 20 naval ships because of the sanctions and embargoes on them for how they were treating China. Because of their attack the US declared war on Japan and Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on us. -
Wannsee Conference
It was presided over by SS-Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and Security Service. Heydrich summoned fourteen men representing the governmental and military branches most involved in implementing the practical aspects of the Final Solution. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring had charged him with arranging all practical matters concerning the implementation of the Final Solution of the Jewish question. -
Battle of Midway
It took place 6 months after Pearl Harbor. The US solved a code and was able to counter attack the Japanese planning on taking out US Carriers. Japan lost and their Navy was permanetly damaged. -
Battle fo Stalingrad
Turning point in the war in the Allies favor. Germany attacked stalingrad and the USSR successfully defended it stopping their advance into the Sooviet Union. -
Kasserine Pass
On this day, German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against an Allied defensive line in Tunisia, North Africa. The Kasserine Pass was the site of the United States’ first major battle defeat of the war. The Effects were more that a 1000 American soldiers were killed and hundreds more were taken as POW -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
An area in Warsaw where 500,000 Jews were forced to live during WW2 before they were sent off to concentration camps where most of them died. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bomb the german city of Hamburg by night and Americans bomb it by day because 167 civilians were killed in Britain by german bombing and they wanted to return the favor. The bombing hurt germany's moral and caused 30,000 death and the destruction of 280,000 buildings. -
D-Day
The D-Day invation was when we sent a 160 thousand allied troops into a heavily fortified 50 mile stretch of Frecnh coastline. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a were "we will take nothing less than victory". By the end of D-Day the allies gained a foot hold in Contenetial Europe, even tho we lost over 9000 soldiers. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germany wanted to split the American army in 2 so he hit us with a surprise blitzkrieg catching us offguard. The inexperienced Americans had to buy time for Gernal Bruce Clarke and this battle had the most American casualties at 100,000. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Invaded an island off the coast of Japan with amphibious vehicles because the US needed a base near Japan.After a month of fight the marines finally took over the island. 5,900 people died and 17,400 were injured. -
Battle of Okinawa
It was the largest and the last of the Pacific battles because if the US lost they would have lost vital bases for the invasion of Japan. 40,000 US were wounded or killed and 400 ships were sunken or damaged. -
VE Day
It was the day that the Allies had defeated the Nazi war machine. In Prague, Germans had surrendered to their Soviet Antagonist and lost about 8000 soldiers. The Russians stoped the germans that tried to flee to the west and captured about 2 Million german soldiers and the effects were that it ended the war. -
Potsdam Declaration
It was the defining terms for the Japanese surrender. The Big Three wanted and unconstitutional surrender from Japan. It was also a threat to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. Japan was allowed to keep its emperor. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The US was the first and only country to use atomic weapons during war on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and HIroshima. Germany waas defeated but Japan was still fighting and the US wanted to war to be over. The cities were demolished and lost over 100,000 people and a few days later Japan surrendered. -
VJ Day
VJ Day is the day that America got victory over Japan. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
