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Second Sino-Japanese War
-Started with the Marco-Polo bridge incident between Chinese and Japanese soldiers, which escalated into a battle.
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Munich Agreement
-Agreement reached by Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France to allow the German annexation of the Sudetenland
-Germany promised that this was the last territory that they would attempt to take but blatantly lied.. -
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World War II
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Invasion of Poland
-Germany invaded Poland and sparked the actual beginning of World War 2.
-Took less than a month for Poland to completely fall to Germany's invading forces. -
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Battle of the Atlantic
-Longest running campaign of World War II
-Major part of naval history during the war -
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Western Desert Campaign
-Took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya.
-Was the main theater of war for the North African Campaign. -
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Battle of Britain
-First major military campaign fought entirely with air force
-Royal Air Force defended Britain from German Luftwaffe -
Atlantic Charter
-Provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war claims.
-Essentially a statement to Germany -
Pearl Harbor Attacks
-The allies were caught in a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
-The United States lost a large portion of their navy here (Temporarily) but luckily, their aircraft carriers were out of the bay when the attack happened. -
The Casablanca Conference
-Held at the Anfa hotel in Morocco
-Place where allies planned their strategy for the remaining years of the war
-FDR and Winston Churchill were both in attendance -
Allied Invasion of Italy
-Allies landed on the beaches of Salerno in September of 1943.
-Allies launched a massive amphibious landing to try and break italy's forces. -
D-Day
-The day that allied troops launched into a massive invasion through the France beaches of Normandy.
-Allied forces fought back the German troops, but at super heavy casualties in doing so. -
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Battle of the Bulge
-The last major German offensive on the Western Front in World War 2.
-Launched through the dense forests of Belgium during the end days of World War 2. -
Operation Plunder
-Huge victory for the allies
-over 4,000 allied guns firing for four hours during the opening bombardment. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombed by U.S.
-United States dropped 2 nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to end the war.
-Shortly after the bombs were dropped, Japan surrendered and WWII was ended.
