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Japan invades China
Japanese armies occupied Chinchow when the Chinese retreated without giving combat. Afterwards the Japanese occupied Shanhaiguan, completing their takeover of Manchuria -
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The Holocaust
The mass murder of about 11 million Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Gypsies by German Nazis -
Munich Conference
Hitler met with representatives of the states from United Kingdom, Italy, and France. An agreement was made that Hitler could invade Sudetenland as long as he didnt invade anywhere else -
Non-Aggression Pact
(A national treaty agreeing to avoid war between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.) Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to take no military action against each other for 10 years. -
Germany invades Poland
The Germans advanced, the Polish forces withdrew from the Polish–German border to more safe areas in the east. France and the United Kingdom had pacts with Poland and had declared war on Germany to help. -
Blitzkrieg
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battle of Britain
This battle was fought entirely by air war machines. Germanys plan was to win air superiority over the Royal Air Force. -
Lend-Lease Act
During WW2, the United States began to provide military supplies to the Allies in September 1940. A lot of this help went to nations already at war with Germany and Japan. -
Operation Barbarossa
The code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (a united states naval base) in a surprise attack, making the United States enter ww2 the following day. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of officials of Germany. The purpose of the conference was to make sure all the administrative leaders of different government departments were ok with or agreed with forcing most of the Jews to Poland and to be murdered. -
Bataan Death March
About 75,000 American and Filipino troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to concentration camps and made prisoners. Most died on the march and many more in the camps -
battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated an attack by the Japanese Navy, causeing a lot of irreparable harm on the Japanese fleet. -
battle of stalingrad
This was a battle between Germany and the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. Its is known to be the bloodiest battle in history. The German bombing reduced almost all of the city to rubble. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy, also known as "D-Day", had 156,000 British, Canadian and American forces land on five beaches along a heavily armed coast of Normandy region. D-Day has been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
battle of the bulge
A major German surprise attack that caught the Allied forces off guard. Its main goal was to split up the British and American allied lines. -
battle of Iwo Jima
America needed a base near the Japanese coast thus making them invade Iwo Jima. -
Battle of Okinawa
Biggest of the Pacific island battles, the Battle of Okinawa involved 287,000 troops of the U.S.army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japaneseb army. -
V-E Day
V-E Day marked the end of ww2 in Europe -
The bombing of Hiroshima + Nagasaki
An American bomber dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb killed 90 percent of the city.Three days later, a second bomber dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 40,000 people. Emperor Hirohito (Japan) announced his country’s absolute surrender in WW2 in a radio address. -
V-J Day
On August 15, 1945, news of Japans surrender was announced to everybody. This sparked celebrations over the ending of WW2. -
Warsaw Pact
Signed on this day, the treaty involved many members and stated that the membering states had to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outsider and it set up a unified military. Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria were members.