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The Great Depression
The great depression was the worst economic depression in the history of the industrialized world. It began with the stock market crash and ended with WWII. -
Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. -
Invasion of Poland.
The invasion of Poland was one of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy. The objective of this was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. -
Invasion of USSR
German forces invaded the Soviet Union less than two years after the German-Soviet pact was signed. This is considered the largest German military operation of WWII. -
Pearl Harbor
The objective of the two wave attack was to prevent the US from influencing Japan's war efforts in Southeast Asia. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in Europe; it stopped Hitler from dominating Europe. -
Germans out of Africa
The British had been fighting with the Germans and Italians in North Africa since 1940. When Germany was forced out of North Africa, the allies had a chance it invade Italy. -
D-Day
The allies created a fake army of wood and cardboard to convince the Germans the invasion was in Calais and not in Normandy where they actually attacked. -
Victory in Europe
Hitler's twelve years of ruling had come to an end. Germany surrendered in a French schoolhouse. -
Atomic Bombs
US pilots dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The USSR declared war on Japan three days later. The US dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki and the Japanese finally surrendered. -
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Nuremberg Trials
After the war, those who had commited crimes during the holocaust were brought to trial. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death however, high government officials and business executives who used concentration camp inmates as workers receive little to no penalty.
