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Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Hitler and Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. Secret protocols of the treaty defined the territorial spheres of influence Germany and Russia would have after a successful invasion of Poland. This happned because both Stalin and Hitler wanted to gain more land.
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Japanese invasion on China
The war started because the Japanese said that they were fired by the Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge close to beijing. That was a good excuse for Japan to send troops into China, and they used Manchuria as a base for the Japanese troops. Some of the effects to China were that one million Chinese people were under Japanese control. And Most of China's cities were invaded by the Japanese. -
Rape of Nanking
150,000 Japanese soldiers were giving the right to murder and rape on a massive scale. This hapend because Japan sucessfully invaded China.Because of this, many Chinese people were killed. Woundering through the streets they killed men and raped the women and children for sport. When they were bored they were allowed to torcher and kill chinese people. Some even barried them alive.
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Germany's invasion of Poland
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans proceeded, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage.
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Fall of Paris
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War 2 that began on 22 June 1941. Over 3.9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.http://www.historyinanhour.com/2011/06/22/operation-barbarossa-summary/ -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions.
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Bataan Death March
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Wannsee Conference
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Battle of Midway
The part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to react fast and converse Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.
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Kasserine Pass
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Operation Gomorrah
Operation Barbarossa was the name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War 2 that began on 22 June 1941. Over 3.9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. This famous battle is sometimes called D-Day or the Invasion of Normandy.
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Battle of the Bulge
It was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II and it was also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. This war was faught to stop the Germans,rive a wedge between the American and British armies in France and the Low Countries .
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima had 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an made a network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.The marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore.
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Battle of Okinawa
This battle was the biggest and last pacific battle in World War ll. The battle involved over 287,000 U.S. troops, and over 130,000 Japanese soldiers. Both of the Generals died during this battle. U.S. losses in ground combat included 7,374 killed, 31,807 wounded, and 239 missing in action. The navy suffered 4,907 killed or missing aboard 34 ships sunk and 368 damaged; 763 aircraft were lost. At sea and in the air, the Japanese expended 2,800 aircraft, and abattleship, a light cruise.
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VE Day
It was the day the Germans finaly put there armes down. And no more war. million Germans tryed a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but they were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. And took over 2 million prisoners.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
First atomic bom was the American B-29 bomber dropped dropped it over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The bomb explosion cleaned 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an about 40,000 people. Later the Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II.
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VJ Day
VJ Day is know for the victory over Japan. Later the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
This occured because Allies ended the war. And the Japan was defeated, which there would be no more torcher in China.
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