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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese started their expansion when they started their assault in Manchuria and kept expanding into China starting their war with the Chinese. Meanwhile the Japanese signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany -
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WW2
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The German invasion of Poland
When Germany secured the treaty with the Soviet Union Known as theRibbentrop/Molotov Pact, they began their invasion of Poland and officialy started the second world war. -
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German Blitzkreig
German style of attack meaning 'lightning war'. The quick attacks helped to overrun Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in a matter of months. This technique was also used in the Blitz which led to the deaths of many British people -
Fall of Paris
Germany was taken over by Germans and people asked for aid from the U.S. -
Operation Barbarossa
The Germans llaunched an attack onto the Soviet Union and the attack failed -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Naval fleet Pearl Harbor and that started the war between ther Japanese and the Americans. -
Battle of Midway
The Americans defeated the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor and gained a strategic advantage -
Wannsee Conference
Was the start of the Holocaust and the discussion of the "Final Solutuion" which wasa the start of the European Jewish extermination -
Battle of Stalingrad
A battle between Germany and The U.S.S.R. and it decided the strategic point in the eastern war -
Operation Gomorrah
The British bombers raid Hamburg in Germany and leave the city in ruins with more than 1,500 civilians dead -
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D-Day
A battle that took place on a beachfront that icluded British, American, and Canadian soldiers attacked Normandy and thewn after it's capture proceeded to liberate France -
Battle of The Bulge
The Germans launch a Blitzkreig on the Allies from Ardennes to Antwerp to split them from the rest of them -
Operation Thunderclap
It was a plan to cripple the German transportation network on thee Eastern front and to show that the regime had failed -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The American Invasion of Iwo Jima was to place an area of operations to prepare for tha capture of Okinawa and the the attack of the Japanese homeland After this Operation Meetinghouse took place -
Battle of Okinawa
A battle that lasted 82 days and marked as the last bastion for Japan -
VE Day
Marked as the day off Victory in Europe where the Nazis surrender to the Allied forces. -
Dropping of the Bombs
The united states developed a bomb by the time they defeated the Nazis but the Pacific war was still on. And to prevent anymore American losses The president at the time Harry S. Truman ordered that the bombs be dropped on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima -
VJ Day
It was on this day the Japanese surrendered
