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WW2
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Japan invades China
Japan invaded China to initiate war in the pacific. this ensured Japan as a trustworthy and powerful ally to Germany and Italy. -
Rape of Nanking
Japan takes over the capital city of japan and the chinese government flees further inland to hankow. -
Germany invades Poland
the Nazis advanced into Poland and swept the country in pure havoc to set the fire to WW2. invading Poland showed the world what Hitler and his army were truly capable of -
battle of the atlantic
aliies naval blockade of germany and germanys counter blockade. -
fall of Paris
german forces invade and conqueor Paris. -
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Operation Barbossa
Hitler sent a massive invasion east bound into the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese sent a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials met to discuss the final decision of the jews and hw to rid them in Germany. -
Bataan Death March
day after surrender of the phillipine island Luzcon to japan and 75000 filipino and american troops were captured. -
Battle of Midway
between june 4-7 US naval ships and Japanese ships were engaged in one of the most intense naval battle of the war and the US inflicted permanent damage on the japanese navy. -
Battle of El Alamein
british prevented the second advance of axis forces into egypt. -
Battle of Stalingrad
the germans were stopped by the soviet union from further invasion into the soviet union making a major turning point in the war in favor of the allies. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
surprise attack by US marines to take over a airbase that was under construction and forced the Japanese to withdraw from Guadalcanal. -
Operation Torch
a secret meeting with algiers planned by a american diplomat stationed in north africa. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
it was a revolt in the jewish camps and ghettos against the germans. -
Allied invasion of Italy
the day that mussolini began to talk peace with the allied powers. -
Nuremberg Trials
a series of 13 trials to bring justice to the nazi war criminals held in Nuremberg Germany. -
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ww2 end
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battle of monte cassino
series of assaults by the allies against the winter line in Italy held by the axis. -
Liberation of concentration camps
in the summer of 1944 allies started to liberate jews from nazi concentration camps. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy in hopes of driving the German forces back and into submission. -
Operation Market Garden
it was a plan take over dutch town Arnagm it fails as thousands of british and polish troops are wounded. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans launched the last major defensive attack of the war. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
defended by 23000 Japanse but the US marines overcame and wiped out all the Jap forces. -
Battle of Okinawa
the last and most specific battle in the pacific in ww2 and included 287,000 US troops and 131,000 Japanese troops. -
VE Day
Day the US and britain celebrated the surrender of Germany. -
Potsdam Declaration
the last ww2 meeting between the big three talked about on what they should do to german war criminals, economy, reparations, etc. -
dropping of the atomic bombs
the US was the first and only nation to use atomic bombs during wartime when they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
the day that Japan surrendered. -
battle of wake island
japanese soliders finally laid down their arms after a bomb attack by US troops.