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Japenese invasion of China 1937
in 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops having a skirmish led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This fighting sparked a full-blown conflict called the sino-japanese war. Several countrys including the U.S gave aid to Japan before hitler crreating an alliance with them. -
German Blitzkrieg (1939- 1940)
A German term for "lightning war" blitzkrieg is a military tatic designed to create a disorganiztation among enemy forces though the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Germanys Invasion of Polland
On this day in 1939 German forces bombard on land and from air as, Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ulitmately rule poland. World war 2 had begun the German invasion of poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war- what would become the "blitzkrieg" strategy -
Fall of Paris
On this day German soliders marched though the streets of paris anouncingg the fall of paris. The british prime minsiter tried to convince the french goverment to hold out, but ultimatley they couldnt handle the pressure any longer. -
Opertation Barbarossa
Hitler launchhed his armies eastward to invade the soviet unoin to rule over them as a dictator. He failed and it made the soviet union the leading power in east europe -
Pearl Harbor
On december 7th a japanese fleet bega to bomb a harbor in hawaii. Killing thousands of americans and sending America in to WW2 -
Wannsee Conference
on January 20th High ranking SS officers met to discuss the Final solution in which Nazis would exterminate the entire jewish population of europe which was ll million people -
Bataan Death March
America surrendered the Bataan Peninsula on the main phillippine island of luzon the japanese during world war 2 about 75,000 americans and Fillipino troops had to walk 65 miles to prison camps. Thousands lost their lives during this giving it the name Death march -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 jews in the warsaw ghetto they deported 265,000 jews to prison camps wwhile they only allowed 35,000 thousand jews to remain in the ghetto -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg germany by night while Americans bombed it by day to exact revenge for german bombings in british space that killed 165 civilians -
Allied invasion of italy
The british army led an ivasion againist the italian peninsula the italian secrectly agreed to the allies terms for surrender but did not publically announce anything -
D-Day (Normandy invasion)
More than 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50 mile french coastline More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the invasion
