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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Rape of Nanking
The rape of Nanking was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking (current official spelling: Nanjing) during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It happened because japan needed resources. It cause the Foreign nations to protest the actions of the Japanese troops. It caused the Communist Party of China to gain a larger number of members, especially to join the 8th Army (the army of the Communist Party within the National army). -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Non-aggression pact signed by the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939. It allowed for Hitler to invade western Poland and Stalin to take eastern Poland without the two sides fighting a war. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to ensure the final solution to the Jewish question. Jews were sent to concentration camps -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan death march is the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. The march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime. -
Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway was an important naval battle. Japan wanted to keep us out of the Pacific theater of war. If they had taken Midway we would have lost one of our major air bases that allowed us to push West. It would have been a major strategic victory for Japan if they had succeeded.
it was a turning point because, midway was a strategic, island that gave US air and naval a base where they could launch attacks on japan and the neighboring islands, -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingard was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day. Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
D-Day (Normandy Invasion) was the invasion and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II, the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place. The Germans had been stopped and forced into slow retreat in eastern Europe, defeated in North Africa and confronted in Italy. U.S. and British bombers had visited ruin on the enemy's industrial cities -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a canceled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields (including South Field and Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The dropping of the atomic bombs were the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). On August 15, just days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources
