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japan invades china
Japanese invades China and triggers full scale war. They attacked China because they werent letting Japan expand. Another reson is they needed resources. -
Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. This was a very powerful deadly attack plan causeing many victorys. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler said it was a defensive move, Britan and france didnt belive him and declared war on Germany initiating WW2. The real reson was so Germany could exand and take over more territories.
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Fall of Paris
Germans went through and took paris with little resistance. They wanted this to have land and power. they got what they wanted. -
Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack.The Japanese thought thath if they could take out the U.S. ships they couldnt fight Japanses forces.this caused the U.S. to enter WW2 -
Operation Barbossa
Adolf lead a massive army into soviet union. In Barbarossa’s opening month, German armies bit deep into Soviet territory; Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two-front war that it could not win. This was the begining of Hitlers downfall. -
Wannsee Conference
The conference was held in Wannsee and some of the top german military officers got together to discuss the "final solution". This was code name for the complete and udder annihilation of the jews. They started mass killing jewa anyway they could. -
Operation Gomorrah
Hamburg was bombed in July 1943. According to JosephGoebbels, Nazi Minister for Propaganda, the bombing of Hamburg was the first time that he thought Nazi Germanymight have to call for peace.
Many bombings took place after this. 30,000 died in this raid. -
D-Day
on June 6,. The amphibious invasions began at 6:30 a.m. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture beaches codenamed Gold, Juno and Sword, as did the Americans at Utah Beach. U.S. forces faced heavy resistance at Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties. -
Aushwitz
Soviet troops marched towards Auswitz, most of its population was evacuated but the prisoners that remained were liberated.it happened because germany was loosing and it was a big sign the war was over. -
operation thunderclap
the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. troops landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima. They took over two airbases and used them and also the plans for the attacks were taken so the allies lost them. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. they wanted this island to use as a spot to launch air strikes. -
VE day
this is a day of celebration because Germany had unconditionaly surrendered. Germany had lost to many forces and had to surrender. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
U.S. dropped a atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Another bobm was dropped on Nagasaki. these bombs initaly ended the war. -
vj day
VJ day markd the end of WW2. Japanese was the last country to surrender from the war. -
Battle of the Buldge
Its goal was to split the Allied armies by a surprise blitzkrieg attack through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties.
