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Japanese invasion of China
in 1937, over a time period of 6 weeks Japanese Army forces murdered hundreds of thousands of people, which include both civilians and solders. On December 13, the first troops of Japan's Army had entered the city, Chinese soldiers were hunted down and killed by the thousands not just soldiers but elderly, women and infants were targeted for execution. An estimates 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed. https://www.history.com/topics/japan/nanjing-massacre -
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German Blitzkrieg
What happened - Germany quickly took much of Europe and was victorious for quite sometime. They did this by using there new military strategy called Blitzkrieg.
Why it happened - Adolf Hitler wanted to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. The German invasion on Poland was a primary way on how Hitler intended to wage war.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/blitzkrieg-lightning-war
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Fall of Paris
In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy then entered the war on 10 June 1940 and invaded France over the Alps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler sent his armies in a massive invasion to conquer western soviet union. There were three groups of armies were sent with more then 3 million German soldiers as well as 3 thousand tanks. Russian weather with heavy rains that turned the roads into morasses. The Germans struggled to get to the gates of Moscow where the Soviet counterattacks stopped them in early December, Germany confronted a two front war that they could not win//www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes bombed the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, and the American battleship U.S.S. was completely destroyed and more than 2300 Americans were killed. The attack on pearl Harbor was intended for many reasons first to destroy important American fleet units, and this would prevent the pacific fleet from interfering with the Japaneses plans.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_pearlhar_1.html
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Wannsee Conference
the Wannsee Conference was a meeting between Nazi party, SS and government officials. They came together to discuss the final solution to the Jewish people in Germany and Europe and to decide the Jewish peoples fate. The solution was to send all Jewish people to ghettos and camps in Poland, and have them exterminated.
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Bataan Death March
After the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese during World War II, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make 65-mile march to prison camps. The journey took reciprocally 5 days to complete. Thousands died in what is known as the Bataan Death March.
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Battle of Midway
The USA defeats the Japaneses attempt to take midway. The Japaneses were a large obstacle and was turning point in the war and is one of the most important battles.
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German troops on the coast of Normandy, France. With a large number of soldiers of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained victory that became a turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Liberation of concentration camps
In 1945, Auschwitz was overrun by Russian soldiers. It was the largest concentration camp, to which over a million people had been moved to from all over Europe. Upon liberation, only a few thousand prisoners remained. In every camp, Allied soldiers encountered terrible sights.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for more then five weeks. In some of the most gruesome fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines.
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VE Day
On this day in 1945, Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, put out flags and banners, in great joy the defeat of the Nazi's.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
The USA dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan one was dropped on Hiroshima and the other was dropped on Nagasaki. The dropping of the bombs on Japan marked the end of WWII, and many historians say that it also instantiated the start of the Cold War.
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VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II, known as Victory over Japan Day.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, was called the Bulge because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest to push the American defensive line through, it was the largest fought on the Western front. The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the assault, against 80,000 Americans.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge
