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Nanjing Massacre
Japan forced their way into the Chinese capital of Nanjing, Where hundreds of thousands of people were massacred. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
This marked the start of WW2, Germany planned on ending their invasion quick by using the blitzkrieg doctrine. which was made up of an overwhelming amount of air support while using mechanized ground forces. -
German Blitzkrieg
Bombers were used to neutralize key infrastructure while German soldiers countered the Polish. Germany took control of roads and check points that led to important city's, towns, or villages that led to their advancement to the capital. -
Pearl Harbor
Around 8 a.m hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the american naval base. around 2,000 american soldiers were killed and another 1,000 wounded. The next day The united states declared war against japan. two years into the war and the U.S finally joined -
Bataan Death March
After the surrender of the U.S and the Philippine troops of Bataan, nearly 75,000 troops were forced to march 65 miles to Japanese imprisonment camps were they were subjected to harsh punishment -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
Jewish residents in German Warsaw planned and armed revolt against the Deportations to extermination camps. This inspired many other revolts throughout German occupied-Europe -
Invasion of Normandy (D-day)
Nearly 150,000 American, British, and Canadian were planning to storm the fortified beaches of Normandy which was controlled by Germany. -
Libiration of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. -
Battle of the bulge
This was Germany's last offensive attack of WW2. An attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Battle of Okinawana
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 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
VE day
On this day Britain and the United States celebrated victory in Europe day. Flags of the Allied powers were hung throughout city streets, rejoicing in the defeat of Germany. -
Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s 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 die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Victory over Japan Day (VJ day)
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
