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sino-japanese war
Chiang Kai-Shek had formed a Nationalist Government and had a Civil war between the Communists and Nationalists in 1930 and In 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops met on the frontier and it led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and becaue of that soon after the japanese attacked and destroyed Nanking in December 1937 with the help of the leage of powers -
Rape of Nanking
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Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
this made gemany and the solvete union friends. they couldnt figth each other for 10 years and they could trade goods with each other -
hitler invades poland
hitler invades poland and casues the british prime minister to declare war with britan and germany starting world war 2 because he is wanting more power.
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german blizkrieg
sourcea combanation of fast moving armor and fast reaching airborn attacks that destroyed almost all of the compeation and this cause big panic among other nations to prepaire there army for such a war and it left many nations weak afterwards for the germans to take over -
fall of paris
germany invaded paris and they decided not to go into full on battle so they surrendered to the germans and accepted defeat -
bataan death march
the japanees were transfering 60000-80000 filipenos and american prisoners of war -
Operation Barbarossa
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the operations goals were to take over the soviet union but back fired and made them fight a 2 sided war and left them to a disavanage and left them at there wak point -
pearl harbor
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the japanese had extensive economic interests throughout the region. When the US imposed an oil embargo on Japan, threatening to suffocate her economy, Japan’s response was to risk everything on a massive pre-emptive strike which would knock the US out of the Pacific, clearing the way for a Japanese conquest and they led the pratace of bombing the pearl harbor till they got 80% and then attac -
The Wannsee Conference
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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 (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million people and there were few exceptions to mixed blood butThe meeting was closed and didnt have enought funding at the time -
battle of midway
the battle of midway was a navil battle between the us and japan in the middle of the pacific ocean. it lasted 4 days and the us were the victors -
Kasserine Pass
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On this day, German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against an Allied defensive line in Tunisia, North Africa. The Kasserine Pass was the site of the United States’ first major battle defeat of the war -
Operation Gomorrah
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British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week. German officials from this period describe a similar despair, as they sought to come to terms with defeat.Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids so brittan wanted pay back so 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British -
D-DAY
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Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, FranceMore than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops. -
Battle of the bulge
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On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The United States also suffered its second-largest surrender of troops of the war: -
battle of iwo jima
iwo jima is a tiny speck in the pacific ocean. we bombed it to warn japan we werent messing around. -
battle of iwo jima
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he battle was marked by changes in Japanese defense tactics–troops no longer defended at the beach line but rather concentrated inland; consequently, the marines experienced initial success but then got bogged down in costly attritional warfare. The Japanese fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations that were difficult to find and destroy. -
Battle of Okinawa
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Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 ca -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa was very powerful they had troops, airfields, and a lot of fire power. we couldnt underestimate them or they would hurt us. so we brought the boom and bombed the daylights out of them. -
VE Day
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On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
VE Day
VE Day of V Day was a holiday celibrating the acceptance of the surender of hitlers armed forces in europe. -
droping the atomic bombs on hiroshima
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On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, 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 -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
after the germans had surendered the japanees and united states continued to brawl. we got tired of fighting so we dropped the atomic bomb and that put an end to ww2 and possibly started the cold war -
VJ DAY
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Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day -
Jv Day
this day was celibrated for the victoy over germany and japan in europe. this officially marked the end of ww2
