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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18,1931, when ta he Kwantung army of the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Muken incident. the japanese established a apuppet state called manchukuo, and their occupation lated until the end of world war II -
German blitzkrieg
a german term for 'lightning war' blitzkrieg ia a military tactic desined to create disorganization among enemy forces tthrough the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. its successfu execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. german forces tried out the blitzkrieg in polan in 1939 before successefully employing the tactic with invasions of belgium, the netherlands aand france in the 1940. -
Germans invasion of Poland
the polish army was defeted within weeks of the invasion. From east prussia and germany in the north and silesia and slovakia in the south, german units with more than 200 tanks and over 1000 planes broke throught polish defenses along the border and advance on warsaw in a massive encirclement attcak.warshaw surrendered to the germans on septemmber 27 1939. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m on december 7 1941 hundreds of japanese fighter planes attacked the american vanal base ta oesrl harbor near honolulu hawaii the barrage lasted just two hours but it was devestating the japanes managed to destroy nearly 20 american navan vessels including eight enormous battleshps and more than 300 airplanes. more than 2000 americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack and another 1000 were wounded. the day after the assult president franklin D. roosevelt asked congress -
D-Day
156,000 american, british and canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile strech of the heaviily fortified coast of frances normandy region the invasion was one of the largest-scale deceptions campaign desinged to mislead the germans bout the intednde invasion target by late agust 1944 all of the northern france had been liberated and by the followin spring the allies had defeted the germans the normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of the war in europe -
Battle of Iowa Jima
a key island in the bnin chain roughly 575 miles fro the japanese coast was sparked by the desire for a place whee b-29 bombers damaged over japan could land without returning all the way tto the marianas and for a base for escort fighters that would assist in the bombing campaign.amreican losses include 5900 dead and 17400 wounded -
Battle of Okinawa
287000 troops of the u.s tenth army against 130,000 soldiers of the japanese thirty-seconds army at stake were air based vital to the projecred invasion of japan by the end of the 82-day campaing japan had lost more than 77,000 sodiers and th allies had sufered more than 65,000 casualties - including 14,000 deeeead. the commanding generals on both sides died in the course of this battle: amaericsn general simon b. buckner by artillery fire , japanese general Ushijima mitsuru by suicide -
VE Day
vitory in europe day generally known as V-E Day, it was the public holiday celebrated on 8 may 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of world war II of nazi germanys unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
an american b-29 bomber droppeed the worlds 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 died of radiation exposure. three days later another bomb dropped on nagasaki, killing around 40,000 peopl. japans emoeror hirohito announced his countrys unconditional surrender in world war II -
VJ Day
news of the surrenderwa announced to the world, this sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of the 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 declred september 2 to be VJ Day
