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Japanese invasion of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War ,was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before and during World War II. It was the biggest Asian war in the twentieth century. The invasion started something huge.
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Rape of Nanking
In 1937 Japan armies went into china. Killed 300,000 chinese civilians. Also 600 thousand soldiers. The invasion was crazy and big. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
It all started when hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland in 1939. Many Germans did not like it and were really mad. It basically started the invasion of Poland. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070 -
German Blitzkrieg
Wanted to avoid the war. They did not want to be part of it. They tried to defeat their opponents with short campaigns.Germany quickly over ran Europe.
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Fall of Paris
Parisians awaken to the sound of a German accented voice announcing loudspeakers that a curfew was being done at for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies and led them to do a massive invasion.The invasion covered a front of two miles.
https://www.google.com/search?q=operation+barbarossa&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=633&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPxZSepdLMAhWiyoMKHboPDBoQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1&safe=active&ssui=on -
Pearl Harbor
Late early in the morning 8:00 am ,japanese fighter planes flew over Pearl Harbor by honolulu. It lasted two hours long and took out 20 naval vessels. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20 1942 15 high ranking Nazi parties and officials gathered together. They went to a villa in a Berlin suburb to discuss the final solution. -
Bataan Death March
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. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad, was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad. In the U.S.S.R. during World War II. It was a big success and was remarkable. -
Operation Gomorrah
This day British bombers raided Hamburg ,Germany. Britian had 167 deaths of civilians from this. Then the tables turned.1,500 people from Germany died. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion-1944)
During World War Two there was a battle known as the Battle of Normandy. This battle ended in the allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944 ,Adolf Hitler attempted to split the aliied armies in northwest. Americans caught off guard fought desperately to stop the Germans from improving. -
Operation thunderclap
For a long time Operation thunderclap have been talked about for awhile with the allied commend. Operation thunderclap was basically to bomb the eastern cities of Germany. http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Americans invaded Iwo Jima. America needed a base close to the japenese coast. So in 1945 three U.S. Marine Divisions landed on the island. -
Battle of Okinawa
The last and biggest battles of WWII. There was a lot of deaths. It japan the most. They lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties ,including 14,000 dead.
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VE Day
The U.S. and Great Britain both have victories. They celebrate.They both put up flags and banners to show the defeat of the Nazi army. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The U.S. was the only country to ever use nuclear warfare. It made it so that Japan wouldn't invade. It definitely was successful but too many people died. -
VJ Day
Japan announced that they were surrendering unconditionally to the allies. Basically ending WWII. It was a big thing and a big mark in history.
