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Japanies Invasion on China
Japans Invasion on China was due essentially to japsns desire to be an imperial power. There was both an economic and militaristic elmement to this desires. -
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Rape of Nanking
was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants, -
Germany Invasion on Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. thats when WWII has started. -
Battle of the Atlantic
was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. -
fall of paris
Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi germanys invasion of the soviet union during WWII, over the course the operation, about four million soldeiers of the Axis Powers invaded Soviet Russia along a front, making it the largest invasion in the history of warfare. the two countries had signed politcial and econimical facts for strategic purposes. -
Battle of Wake Island
began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 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 islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Empire of Japan against those of the U.S., with Marines playing a prominent role on both sides. -
Wannsee Conference
Was a sernior officals of Nazi Germany, held in Berlin subburb of Wannsee, The purpose of the conferene was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of final solution to the jewish question, the jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. Conferene attendees included representattives from several government ministries, including state secretaries from the foregin office the just interior. -
Bataan Death March
Prisoners were stripped of their weapons and valuables, and told to march to Balanga, the capital of Bataan. Some were beaten, bayoneted, and mistreated. The first major atrocity occurred when between 350 and 400 Filipino officers and NCOs were summarily executed near the Pantingan river after they had surrendered. -
Battle of Midway
was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. -
Battle of El Alamein
the Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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 in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Operation Torch
The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and United Kingdom to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. The most significant portion of the rebellion took place beginning on 19 April, but ended when the poorly supplied resistance was defeated by the German soldiers. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. -
allied invasion of italy
The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. there was disagreement between the Allies as to what the next step should be. -
battle of monte cassino
the western half of the Winter Line was being anchored by Germans holding the Rapido, Liri, and Garigliano valleys and some of the surrounding peaks and ridges. Together, these features formed the Gustav Line -
D Day
the largest searborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of german-occupied wstern Europe, led to eh liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. in the mouths leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substanitail military deception, to mislead the germans as to the date and location of the main allied landings. the wather on D-day was far from ideeal but postponing would have ment a delay of atlest two weeks. -
Operation Market Garden
was an unsuccessful Allied military operation that fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time. -
battle of the bulge
The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front which Germany was largely unable to replace. German personnel and Luftwaffe aircraft also sustained heavy losses. -
Battle of 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. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodest fight of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland.Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. The prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
V.E day
ve day is the victory in europe. On Monday May 7th at 02.41. German General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document that formally ended war in Europe -
Potsdam Declaration
Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
during the final stage of the Second World War, the U.S dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed over 125,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
VJ day
is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered. in effect ending World War II and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War Il. -
Pearl Harbor
It was a suprise Military strike conducted by the Japaneses Navy agianst the united states naval base, the attack led to the U.S. entry into WWII. the attack was intedned as preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific from interfering with military action the empire of japan was planning in southeast Asia against overseas territories of the united kingdom, the Netherlands, there was simultaneous japanese attacks on the U.S.-HEld Philippiens and on the British empire in Malya, hong kong
