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Japanese invasion of China
Japan invades China and they agree to fight. Many Chinese folk die from the bombings and the war. 10 to 20 Million civilians died. China won as part of the Allies.
[http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/sino-japanese-war] -
Rape of Nanking
apanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
[http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nankin -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Germanys invasion on Poland ended on October 6, 1939 Poland lost within weeks to 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes. Warsaw Poland surrendered after being bombed in september 3, 1939
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Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery.
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg] -
Fall of Paris
German troops enter and occupy Paris. And American then entered the war.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris] -
Operation Barbarossa
A code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Barbarossa was the critical turning point in the War. It failed and forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources.
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa] -
Pearl Harbor
Japans attack on pearl harbor happened on December 7th of 1941. Japan attacked with hundreds of planes destroying more than 20 naval ships, 300 planes, 2,000 dead, and 1,000 wounded. U.S. declared war on Japan the next day. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
The Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942 Reinhard Heydrich Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi Bureaucrats to coordinate the entire Jewish population of Europe when there was only about 11 million.
[https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007712] -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Bataan Death March
The Philippine lose the Luzon island for surendering the Bataan Peninsula. They lose it to the Japanese.
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march] -
Battle of Midway
Six months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the U.S Navy attacks the Japanese fleet.
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway] -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany by night, and Americans bomb it by day. Germany killed 167 civilians with their bombing so Britten bombed them right back. Many died and most places were left in crumbs.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched] -
D-Day
D-Day was on June 6th 1944. This is when 160,000 allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. They landed with more than 5,000 ships and 12,000 air crafts which was a huge blow to Hitler and his forces. https://www.army.mil/d-day/ -
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945. The capture of Okinawa was part of a 3 point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of WWII
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa] -
VE day
Great Britain and the U.S celebrate victory in Europe Day -
Da bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
Operation Thunderclap
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Vj day
Both August 14 and August 15 have been known as "Victoryover Japan Day" or VJ Day. It 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.
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day] -
Battle of the Bulge
In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied Forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitlers favor. The battle that ensued is known historically as the Battle of the Bulge
[http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge] -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment (sixty-eight hundred tons of bombs, twenty-two thousand shells). American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
