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A time line of World War Two by Colin Wilmes
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Japan needed more resources. It wanted to be an industrial and military power but lacked resources and space on its home islands. For these reasons it invaded China. This was the beginning of the second Sino-Japenese War.
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Large scale massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants numbering an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.
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Joint invassion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent which marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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Germany's military tatic blitzkrieg which means quick was to get through enemy defenses with tanks and attack from behind to cause confusion they used this to control most of Europe.
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Germany's invassion of France
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The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front.
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Nazi Germany's invassion of the Soviet Union
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The Japanese attack on US Naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii the Japanese successful destroyed boats as well as planes the success of the attack relied on the day being a Sunday and most of the fleet to be in the harbor
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After Pearl Harbor the US declares war on Japan
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Shortly after declaring war on Japan Germany delclares war on the newest world superpower to enter the war the USA
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The 65 mile march that US and Philippians troops made on the Battaan Peninsula
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Nazi Germany's battle against the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad
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An act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto against the Germans
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The allied amphibious landing on Italy
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Germany's attempt to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance
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The US first attack on Japanese islands 85% of Japanese soldiers died
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Biggest and last battle of the Okinawa campaigns
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The day that Germany surrendered
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The day that Germany surrendered to the allies
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The day Japan surrendered
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