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japanese invasion of china 1937
military conflict fought primarily between the republic of china and the empire of japan from July to september -
German blitzkrieg 1939
which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of soviet intervention -
Germany invasion of Poland 1939
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air as Adolf Hitler seeks regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
pearl harbor 1941
Japanes fighter planes attacked the american naval base at pearl harbor near Honolulu hawaii -
operation barbarossa 1941
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the soviet union three great army groups with over three million German soldiers 150 division and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into soviet territory -
wannsee conference 1942
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the final solution of the Jewish question -
Operation Gomorrah 1943
British bombers raid hamburg Germany by night in operation Gomorrah while american bomb it by day in its own blitz week -
battle of the bugle 1944
German launched the last major offensive of the war operation mist also know as the Ardennes offensive and the battle of the Bulge an attempt to push the allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium -
d-day normandy invasion 1944
battled of Normandy which last from June to august resulted in the Allied liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany control -
operation thunderclap 1945
series of allied firebombing raids begins against the Germany city of Dresden reducing the Florence of the Elbe to rubble and flames and killing as many as 135,000 people -
battle of two jima 1945
major battle in which the united states marine corps landed on and eventually captured the island of two Jima from Japanses imperial army during wwll -
ve day 1945
great Britain and the untied states celebrate victory in Europe day cities in both nations as well formerly occupied cities in western Europe put out flags and banners rejoicing in defeat of the Nazi war machine -
battle of okinawa 1945
last and biggest of the pacific island battles of the wwll the Okinawa campaign April -June involved the 287,00 troops of U.S tenth army against 130,000 soldier of the Japanese thirty-second army -
bropping of the atomic bombs 1945
united states detonates the world first atomic bomb at a test site in new mexico on July less than a moth later atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
vj day 1945
japan was surrendered unconditionally to the allies effectively ending wwll