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Invasion of Manchuria
Japan used as a launching point to attack the rest of China during the 1930s.
Later, Japan invaded French Indochina (Vietnam and Laos) in 1941. -
Invasion of Poland Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939
German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Western Campaign, the French Campaign and the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France during the Second World War. France and the Low Countries were conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was not the only hit.
-Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake
-Seizing Burma, Philippines
Japan was brutal to their enemies and prisoners of war. -
Battle of Midway
A battle over a central island that was very flat. -
Stalingrad
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Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima is most famous for being the bloodiest war in marine corps history. The island is now abandoned and has a population of 0. -
Okinawa
The Island that was captured right before the main land of Japan. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic Bombings -
VJ-Day
Victory over Japan day. Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.