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The Japanese Invasion of China
In 1937 a clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. This invasion started all because of Japans long quests to expand their culture and influence.This war was one of the largest asian wars in the 20th century. This war eventually merged to the start of World War II after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Because the U.S. was helping China fight against Japan.
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Rape of Nanking
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Germany's invasion of Poland
The main reason Germany was able to invade and attack Poland was because of the German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which said that Poland was to be split between the two powers, that allowed Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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Germany's Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a German term for “lightning war,” it is a military tactic designed to create caos among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower (Tanks, Planes, and Ground troops). If it is executed correctly it results in short battle, which saves human lives and limits the use of artillery.
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Fall of Paris
Although German forces in the north encountered strong French and Belgian resistance, the main German advance through the Ardennes met with tremendous success. French second-rate divisions in the area were not prepared or equipped to deal with the major armoured advance that developed, and were hammered by incessant attacks by German bombers. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on June 22, 1941. The operation was lead by Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer Soviet territory as stated in his book Mein Kampf.
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy 20 American naval vessels, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote.
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Wannsee Conference
On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons.
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Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front 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.
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Operation Gomorrah
The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destructive raids. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.
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D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Operation Thunderclap
‘Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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.
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Battle of Okinawa
On April 1, 1945, Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. it was last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II.
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VE Day
Is the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Dropping of Atomic Bombs
August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured.
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VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
