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Japan Invades Manchuria- China
When Japan invaded Manchuria it was the brink of World War 2. They invaded northeast China. They did it because they needed lots of materials to build their empire, and China had lots of them. China had lots of rubber and oil. https://www.historycentral.com/DEP/JapanInvadesManchuria.html -
Nuremberg Laws are enacted
On the 15 of September 1935, Hitler published the Nuremberg laws. They were stripped of there citizenship. They were thought of as subjects. They lost a lot of rights. And they were not allowed to eat with the "pure-blooded Germans." And this was definitely against there rights.
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Italy invades Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini wanted to expand Italy, Jest like the Germans. so they took over Ethiopia. His aim in invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler decided to invade Poland because he wanted to wage war, he was doing the “Blitzkrieg” strategy. He bombed the railroads, communication lines, air capacity, and munitions dump followed by a land invasion.
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Auschwitz concentration camp opens
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Battle of Britain https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain-1
The battle was Germany against Britain. The point of the battle was for more control over airspace. It was the first battle ever to only take place in the sky. In world war one the treaty of verses said that Germany could not have an air force but it secretly gained pilots to fly for the air force. Hitler wanted to take more land for Germany. He was targeting the soviet union but first, he needed to take over Britain. He nearly did but he was stopped. the operation was called operation sealion. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler decided to go attack the soviet union on June 22, 1941. he had 3 great army groups with over 3 million soldiers, 150 divisions, and 3 thousand tanks. they smashed into Soviet territory. the attack covered north cape to the black sea. it had a distance of 2 thousand miles.
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Siege of Leningrad
the nazis invaded the soviet union in the summer of 1941. the nazis surrounded the city Leningrad in a siege. the siege lasted almost 900 days and there were 1 million deaths. -
Japan attacks Pearl harbor.
the attack on pearl harbor was very bad for America. there were more than 350 Japanese plains that were sent. their targets were our naval ships', naval base and vessels. they sunk 18 vessels and killed almost 2403 people, they damaged 300 us aircraft. after this attack, America decided to go into war with the allide, and axis powers.
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Japanese Internment
After the bombing of pearl harbor, the president made the executive order 9066. He did this because he thought that it would stop espionage. He thanked that there were Japanese spies because when the bombing happened they knew where the naval base was in Hawaii. When order 9066 was published it was only for volunteers, then since no one wanted to join they made it essential. They were called japs or aliens.
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Battle of Midway
The us knew that the Japanese were planning an attack in the first place. The us won the battle between the Japanese by bombing there the last ship "the Hiryu." the Yorktown was the ship that was responsible for winning the battle(the Yorktown was later sunk on June 7th).
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D-Day https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
D-Day was only a one-day invasion. it took place in France, on as much as 5 beaches n a 50-mile stretch. there were almost 156,00 Americans, British and Canadian soldiers that were sneek attacking the Germans in France. the germans took over France sometime before but know the alide powers wanted France back. D-Days code name was operation overload. the invasion took place in little boats on the coast in France. after the war, the boats were called duck boats. they cared solders to the beaches. -
Boming of Hiroshima
The bome that bombed Hiroshima was called Little Boy. It was made out of uranium and was very gun like. It exploded with 13 kilotons of force. There were about 290,000 civilians living there and 43,000 solders. It is believed that 90,000 and 166,000 people died from Radiation sickness Cancer and Burns. Its code name was Operation Centerboard.
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The bombing of Nagasaki https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945
The second bome was dropped three days after the bome dropped on Hiroshima. It was dropped on Nagaski. It was a 21 kiloton plutonium device. Its name was Fat-Man. it was bigger then the first atomic bome dropped on Hiroshima. there were 263,000 people there including 240,000 Japanese residences 9000 Japanese soldiers and 400 prisoners of war. right after the bome was dropped almost 75,000 people died immediately and then 60,000 people suffered later, the total deaths after 1945 were 80,000.
