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japanese invasion of china
Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. Japan was Japan came up with a came up against little organised resistance. and , China’s most important port, Shanghai, fell and Nanjing (Nanking), Chiang Kai-shek’s capital, fell in December 1937.The American bombers that launched the first raid on Tokyo were scheduled to land in China. Airstrips were built in China to allow American planes to bomb Japanese shipping. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934.Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm.On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
German Blitzkrieg
“lightning war'' is another term for blitzkrieg which is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941 hilter which spreaded his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
the attack on pearl harbor was attacked by japan and the united states. before 8 a.m a bunch of japan planes attacked the americans on the base of pearl harbor. -
Wannsee Conference
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 persons. -
Operation Gomorrah
in 1943 britsh bombers raid the germany at night and called it the operation gomorrah. alot of british people were killed by the germany bombers over 167 british were killed. on the july 24 evening the saw that the british has dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs. in that bombing over 1,500 germanies were killed in that raid. -
D-Day (normandy invasion
during the civil war in (1939-1945) there was a battle of mormandy which has lasted june 1944 to august 1944. on june 4 1944 the british had candiance had them land on 50 beaches which was a 50 mile stretch on frances normandy region.By the late year 1944 of august, all of the northern france has been liberated. by the following spring the allies were defeated by the germany. -
operation thunderclap
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battle of iwo
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battle of okinawa
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battle of the bulge
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VE day
on may 8, 1945 both british and the united states. on europe day victory was celebrated. Both cities in both nations formerly occupied western europe in cities which put out flags and banners this put the rejoice in the defeat of the nazi machine. -
Dropping of Atomic Bomb
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VJ Day
