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Japanese Invasion of China
Japan was eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and saw their obvious weakness, they invaded and attacked Manchuria. -
The Rape of Nanking
An episode during the second sino-Japanese war which the Japanese troops raped and mass murdered civilians. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Treaty of non aggression between Germany and Soviet Union. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Germany had more than 2000 tanks and 1000 planes. -
German Blitzkrieg
The Blitzkrieg was a new military tactic and required the concentration of offensive weapons. Was very successful at first. -
Fall of Paris
This was the German invasion of France during WWII. -
Operation Barbarossa
Ws the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Ws a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Wannasee Conference
InBerlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons. -
Bataan Death March
Surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese. People were forced to March 65 miles to prison camps. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising.
This was an act of Jewish resistance that arose in the Warsaw Ghetto. They opposed the final effort of the Nazis to transport them to death camps. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. -
Battle Of The Bulge
Hitler attempted to split up the allied armies in Northwest Europe by a surprise blitzkrieg thrust. -
Operation Thunderclap
The idea was to bomb the eastern cities of Germany to disrupt the transport of infrastructure behind what was becoming the eastern front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A battle in which the U.S marines landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. -
Battle of Okinawa
Series of battles fought centered on the island of Okinawa. The allies wanted to use the island as a base for operations. -
V-E Day
Signifies the end of WWII and an allied victory. -
Dropping of atomic bombs.
The U.S dropped nuclear weapons on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
The day Japan ceased fighting in WWII.
