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Japanese invasion of China (1937)
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific. -
The rape of nanking (1937)
This was when the japanese leader unleashed his troops on to china and the troops came around swinging. -
Germany's invasion of Poland (1939)
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. -
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Fall of Paris
This was when Germany entered and eventually took over France because France, though they tried to stay strong, eventually had to request peace with germany. -
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Hitler launched a major raid on the soviet union. Russia ran to their aid, and it became a turning point for Germany who where now fighting a three-way war. -
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Japan launched a kamikaaze bombing on U.S. ships is a Hawaii harbor called Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were supposed to be our allies. -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in Berlin to discuss and coordinate the details of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." It was supposed to finish the Jewish problem once and for all. -
Bataan death march
This was when the Japanese took over the biggest island of the phillipeans,Luzon ,and made the inhabitants walk the long,hot walk to the prison camps.Many people perished from the swealttering heat,cruel guards and pure exaustion. -
Operation Gomorrah (1943)
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
Allied invasion of Italy (1943)
This was an invasion of Italy which was at that time ruled by Mussolini who was a puppet for Hitler.Many Italians were ready for this attack because they couldn't wait for their dictator to be overthrown.Therfore the troops were very easy to defeat for Britan. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge. It was an attempt to push the Allied forces west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
Operation Thunderclap
‘Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied powers for some time, the idea was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
It was a large scale invasion on Germany from America. The code name was D-day. It was one of the most importanat battles of the war. It was during this raid, that America defeated Geramny. -
Liberation of concentration camps (1944)
This was when the polish troops broke through to the concentration camps and rushed in to save the people inside.Many were unnourished and basicly skin and bones.They broke through to Auschwitz,the main camp. on the 27th of january and found hundreds of sick exausted and starving people. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa (1945)
The battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest awater assault in the Pacific War during World War II -
VE Day (1945)
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8th to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
An American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
VJ Day (1945)
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
