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Chinese and Japanese troops started firing at each other near the Logou Bridge, which led to Beijing.
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The Rape of Nanking was a Mass Murder/Rape spree comitted by Japanese troops against the Chinese citizens of Nanking. They killed around 300,000 people, and raped a lot of people.
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The Germans, Slovaks, and Soviets invaded Poland. The country was mostly split between The Soviet Union and Germany.
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Germany used Blitzkrieg, meaning "Lightning War", tactics to invade France in the beginning of WWII.
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The Fall of Paris was when the Germans completetd their invasion of France. The Germans formed the French Vichy Gov't to govern France, it was really ruled by the Nazis.
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Operation Barbarossa was the German's plan to take over the Soviet Union.
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The Japanese attacked America's main naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. They destroyed vital parts of the base and many ships.
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Nazi leaders met up at a villa in the German suburb of Wannsee, they talked about a final solution to the Jewish Problem.
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The Bataan Death March was a transfer of 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners by the Japanese Army. Many people wer violently beaten and killed.
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At The Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans pushed into the city of Stalingrad, attempting to take it over. The Russians defended the city from the Germans, but there were heavy casualties on both sides.
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The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto started to resist the Nazis and fight against them.
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Americans and the British started a series of bombing runs on the city of Hamburg, Germany.
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The Allies started to invade mainland Italy, after the had successfully taken over the island of Sicily.
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D-Day was the massive invasion of France by the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and many other countires. They invaded from five different beaches near Normandy, France.
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The Battle of The Bulge was a push throught the Ardennes Forest in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg by the Germans.
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Operation Thunderclap was the United States and Great Britain's plan to bomb Dresden, Germany.
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The U.S. troops landed on the Ryuku Islands in Okinawa, Japan near the end of their island hopping campaign, they planned to use the islands for an Air Force base for when they invaded mainland Japan.
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VE Day was the formal date the Germans unconditionally surrender, ending the war in Europe.
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The U.S. decided to drop an atomic bomb on both the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Japanese surrendered unconditionally, thus completely ending WWII.
