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Japanese invades China
Chinese victory as part of the allied victory in the Pacific war.
Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland Chna.
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Rape of Nanking
During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 chinese civilians and disarmed combatants, and perpetrated widspread rape and looting. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The german invasion of poland was a primrt on how hitler intended to wage war what would beome the "blitzkrieg" strategy. Concentration camps for slvaes ladorers and the extermination of civilians went hand in hand with german rule of a conquered nation. -
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Battle of the atlantic
The convoys, coming mainly from North America and predominantly going to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces. -
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Battle of France
In the second world war, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of Frace, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces. -
operation barbarossa
Was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World war II. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded Soviet Russia along a 2,900 km front making it the largest invasion in teh history of warfare. -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
The attack was intendened as a preventive action in order to keep the US Pacific fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in southeast asia against overseas territores of the united kingdom, the netherlands, and the united states. -
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Battle of wake island
Began simultaneously with the attack on peatl harbor and ended on december 23 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the empire of Japan. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by wake island and its islects of peale and wilkes islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the empire of Japan against those of the US with marnies playing a prominent role on both sides. -
Wannsee Conference
Was a meeting of senior officials of nazi germany, held in the berlin suburb of wannsee on 20 january 1942. Legalized discrimination against jews began immedently after the Nazi seizure of power on 30 january 1933. vilolence and econmic pressure were used by the nazi regime to encourage jews to voluntarly leave the country. -
Bataan death march
After the April 9 1942, US surrender of the Baatan Peninsula on the main philippine island of luzon to the japanese during wwII the aprox. 75,000 flipino and american troops on battan were forced to make an arduos 65-miles march to prison camps. -
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battle of midway
A naval and air battle fought in wwII in which planees from american aircraft carriers blunted the japanese naval threat in the pacific ocean after pearl harbor. -
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battle of el alemein
A pitched battle in wwII resulting in a decisive allied victory by british troops under montgomery over german troops under rommel. -
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Battle of guadalcanal
was a military campain fought between 7 august 1942 and 9 feb. 1943 on and around the isalnd of guadalcanal in the pacific. -
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Battle Stalingard
was a major battle of wwii in which nazi germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city of stalingard in southern russia, on the eastern boundary of europe. -
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operation torch
was the british american invasionof french north africa during the north african campaign ofnthe second world war which started on 8 november 1942. -
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Warsaw Ghetto
The warsaw ghetto was the largest of all the jewish ghetto in nazi occupied europe during wwii. -
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Invasion of Italy
was the allied landing on mainland italy on 3 september 1943 by gereral harold alexander 15 army group during the second wwii. -
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Battle of monte cassino
The battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italty held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. -
D-DAY
Is the day on wich a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944---the day of the Normandy landings---initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. -
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operation market garden
was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time. -
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Battle of the Bulge
Was a major German offensive campain launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgim, France, and Luxemburg on the Western Front toward the end of Wrold War II. -
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Battle iwo jima
Was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
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battle of okinawa
Its also known as Operation Iceburg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. -
Liberation of Nazi Camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of consentration camp prisoners. Soviet froces were the first to approch a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. -
VE DAY
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
potsdam declaration
Is the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for teh surrender of all Japanese armed forces durning World War II. -
Atomic bomb
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fussion. Both reactions release vast quantites of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. -
VJ DAY
The day on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day when Japan formally surrendered. -
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nuremberg trials
The trails were a series on military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the proecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
