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Japanese invasion of china
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This was a invasion of china by japan due to years of long Japanese imperialist policy to expand its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves, food, and labor.
It left between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military dead from the war. -
Rape of Nanjing (Nanjing Massacre)
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Over a 6 week period Imperial Japanese army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people including both soldiers and civilians in the city of Nanjing. Between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. A lot died but there was no exact number Around tens of thousands. -
Germany's invasion of poland
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Hitler sent around 1.5 million German troops to invade Poland. He did it as a "defensive action" although Britain/France weren't convinced. The result was War on Germany, Which led into ww2 -
German Blitzkreig
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blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. This strategy ended up being adopted by others and used in many wars. -
Fall of paris
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Paris was attacked by the Germans. Churchill was trying to convince the french gov to hang on and that america would come in and aid to them, but that was opposed . By the time German tanks rolled into Paris 2 million Parisians fled. However the Canadians rolled in to help them and The US ended up freezing the assets of the axis powers. total of 360,000 causalities in french dead and 163,000 Germans dead. -
Operation Barbarossa
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Massive invasion on the Soviet union.It was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources.results were the encirclement battles of Kiev in September and Bryansk-Vyazma in October, each netting 600,000 prisoners. -
Pearl Harbor
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hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. This all because We never listened to japan and they felt ignored. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
The Wannsee Conference
SourceThis meeting was about the final solution the the jewish question. Most ended ip being deported to poland then murdered. -
Bataan death march
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This Bataan Peninsula was where the Us/Filipino army held out from the japan forces. But on April 9 the forces were crippled by starvation and disease. Then the troops surrendered due to Edward King Jr with 75,000 troops. -
Battle Of Midway
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This was the naval battle in the pacific that was against the Japanese 6 months after pearl harbor. The Us destroyed 4 carrier ships from japan in order to defend themselves and it worked. -
Battle Of Stalingrad
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This was the successful soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during ww2. It stopped the German advance and it was Germany's biggest loss also. All due to the Russian winter. There was 91,000 men when they surrendered and 150,000 Germans died all due to Hitler's ego. -
Operation Gomarrah
SourceBritish aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. it was attacked due to the huge oil refineries there. There was 37,000 Wounded and 42,600 civilians killed. -
D-Day
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156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region to invade. This was to distract and fake out Germany. It resulted in Victory in Normandy. -
Operation Thunderclap
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This was a plan that got canceled. The plan had a massive attack on the Berlin and was believed to cause 220,000 causalities and 110,000 killed. But the plan was decided that it wouldn't work. -
Battle of the Bulge.
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It was a surprise Blitzkrieg through the Ardennes to Antwerp. It caught the american units off guard. It was Hitlers attempt to split the allied armies.
Over 100,000 casualties. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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This was the battle where the united states invaded Iwo Jima to help the us for attacks on the Japanese. It was defended by 23,000 Japanese soldiers and 216 of them were taken prisoner. -
Battle of okinawa
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This was the last biggest Pacific island battle of ww2. It had 287,000 troops of the US tenth army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second army. By the end Japan lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties. 14,000 dead. -
VE Day (Victory In Europe)
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This day Great Britain and The us celebrated victory with the suicide of the Nazi's leader Hitler and their surrender. -
Dropping the atomic bombs.
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This was the atomic bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US bombed them as a harsh decision of the new president to end ww2 which it did, buy it was very controversial. It killed around 80,000 people and tens of thousands more died the following weeks from wounds and Radiation poisoning. Three days later We bombed Nagasaki killing 40,000 people. Then Japan Surrendered. -
VJ day (Victory over Japan Day)
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This was when Japan announced their surrender unconditionally to the allies that ended ww2. Since then august 14th/15th have been known as VJ day.
