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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria(Manchukuo)
The Japanese controlled the Manchurian railway, but In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria, and thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. America continued sales of weapons to Japan because we didnt want them to get mad and declare war. -
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
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The Munich Pact
This was an agreement signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. it was an act of appeasement so Hitler wouldn't get out of hand, by giving him a piece of Czechoslovakia so he would no longer want more land. But this was unsuccessful, and Hitler continued taking land, thus the beginning of WW2. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is a German word for "broken glass." this was an event in which Hitler's Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews, and nearly 100 Jews died. this initially started the Holocaust. -
Invasion of Poland
Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and this was the act that initially started WW2. -
Battle of Dunkirk
This was a important battle in WW2 between the allies and germany. The German army seized the French port of Dunkirk, ending the evacuation that had begun nine days earlier and had saved 338,000 Allied troops.They rolled to the English Channel and split the Allied forces in two. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. They did this because of the embargo the U.S. had on Japan, so they attempted to destroy the United sates naval power for a part of revenge. This is important because this is what brought the U.S out of isolationism and into WW2. -
Bataan Death March
This was a forced march of the American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines of WW2. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese military planners goals were to attack the American-held midway island, to lure the Americans into a large sea battle. but naval intelligence officers had broken a Japanese code and found out about the plan to attack midway .although the Americans had won a tremendous victory, the Japanese did manage to destroy the USS Yorktown. The U.S victory at this battle greatly reduced the Japanese naval power. -
D-Day
this was a gruesome and deadly battle for the American soldiers. Arriving in Normandy, allied forces waded through the surf till they hit sand, and raced to find something to hide behind to escape Germany gunfire. This battle is important, because their goal was to free France of the German Nazis, and were successful at doing so. -
Battle of the Buldge
This battle was the Germans attempt to push the allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. On this day, the Germans launched the last major offensive of WW2. -
Yalta Conference
a conference held in Yalta where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe.The Yalta Conference has had a massive long term impact on the structure of the world we live in today.Stalin broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union.Then American critics accused Roosevelt, who died two months after the conference, had “sold out” to the soviets of russia. -
VE Day
This was a public holiday celebrating when the WW2 allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Hitler's third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
The bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped the world’s first 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 die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II on the radio. -
V-J Day
This is the date that marks the day the allies declared victory over Japan in WW2.
