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Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese claimed that Chinese soldiers attacked the railroad and that is why they invaded but China decided not to fight back because they knew Japan was just looking for a reason to invade Manchuria. Eventually the Japanese provoked China into a full on war. -
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they destroyed and damaged 20 American vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack,and another 1,000 people were wounded.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades because,the United States was unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China, ect. -
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 from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. The transfer began on April 9, 1942, after the three month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. The march was characterized by severe physical abuse and wanton killings, and was later said to be a Japanese War Crime. -
D-Day ( Normandy Invasion-1944)
D-Day first started when the Allies combined a naval, air, and land assault on Nazi occupied France. On D-Day the United States and allied troops invaded Normandy. The goal was to surprise Germany but Germany was ready to fight, and this day was the beginning of the end of WW2. This caused Germany to eventually retreat and surrender. -
Liberation of concentration camps
This is when the Allies started to save dying and malnutritioned people from concentration camps. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a conflict in the making because the US invaded Iwo Jima because, they felt that there was a need for a base near the Japanese coast. After a month of fighting the Marines wiped out the defending forces of Iwo Jima; the US got the victory. -
VE Day (1945)
VE Day is also known as victory in Europe day which celebrates the formal acceptance by the Allies of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of it's armed forces.Thus the end of World War 2; also this was the day that Hitler killed himself. -
Dropping of atomic bombs
The US was the first and only nation to drop an atomic bomb (they dropped it on Hiroshima) during the wartime. Because Germany had already admitted defeat, the US couldn't drop the bomb on them, but Japan was still fighting. So the US dropped a bomb on the Japanese City Hiroshima and killed thousands of people and left the land in ruins; a couple days later Japan surrendered. -
VJ Day (1945)
This is the day that Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending the war. -
Battle of Bulge (1945)
Hitler tried to split the allies armies in northwest Europe by the means of surprise attack. Because the Americans were fighting hard, the Germans didn't get a victory but they did cause a draw in some of the west armies.
