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Second Sino-Japanese war was a military conflict that was waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese in it's territory (which begun in 1931)
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Late 1937, Imperial Japanese Army forces murdered 100 to 1000 of people - this includes soldiers and civilians, in the Chinese city of Nanking (or Nanjing). During Sino-Japanese turned to Nanking, fearing of losing to them in battle, Nationalist leader Chiang kai-Shok ordered the removal, Nanking was left in ruins, and would take decades to recover
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Paris fell to Nazi Germany, one mouth after the German stormed into France, 8 day later, France signed a armistice with the German, and a puppet French state was set-up with it's capital at Vichy
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German Blitzkrieg strategy using fast-moving tanks, focus on one part of the enemy, known as Blitzkrieg, pushed forward by Colonel John Fuller, chief of staff of British Tank Corps. Disappointed how tanks in the first world war were used, produced plan in 1919. British Army ignored Fuller's idea, but studied in Germany. The Light Tractor weighed ten tons, carried a 37mm gun. Heavy Tractor was a 20-tonner with two turrets, one forward with a 77mm gun, and one at the rear carrying a machine-gun
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A U.S naval base near Hoholulu, Hawaii, was the scene of a surprise attack by Japanese forces, it was on Dec 7, 1941 hundred of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, they managed to destroy/damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including 8 battleships, and over 300 airplane. 2, 400 Americans died, with civilians, and another 1, 000 people were wounded. On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan
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On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
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Was a epic clash between the U.S Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six month after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It successfully defense of the major base located at Midway island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power, effectively turned tides of World War Two, in the Pacific
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On January, the Allies leader decide to use their massive resource in Mediterranean. On July 10, 1943, The Allies began their invasion of Axis controlled Europe with landing on the island of Sicily on September 3, 1943, Montgomery 8th Army began it's invasion of the Italian mainland, the Italian government agreed to surrender
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The battle of Normandy, lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, as the outcome in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany control. Codenamed Operation Overlored, the battle began on June 6, also known as D-Day. The invasion was one of the largest military assault in history. By late August 1944, the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. Normandy landings have called this the end of the Europe
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Dec 16, 1944 - Jan 25, 1945
The Ardennes region of Belgium was Hitler's last major offensive against the Western Front. Hitler goal was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. German troops failed to divide Britain, France and America -
Soviet soldiers poured into Auschwitz on January 1925, they encountered warehouses filled with people belongings. Most were already dead, murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust's and largest extermination and concentration camps. Trying to cover up their crimes as the people were left to died by the SS soldiers as the Nazi knew they couldn't stay in Auschwitz
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. U.S Marine invaded Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 after months of naval bombardment. Approximately 70, 00 U.S Marine and 8, 000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battles. In thirty-six days of fighting on the island was finally declared secured on March 20, 1945
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Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), the day German troops throughout Europe laid down their arms, German surrendered to Soviet, after losing more than 80, 0000 soldiers. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin, and in Eastern Germany. 13, 000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. VE Day isn’t celebrated until ninth in Moscow, a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself, “-The war is over"
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 of August, 1945
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VJ, the day Japan surrendered and ending World War Two, Victory Over Japan Day (VJ Day). VJ Day was on the day Imperial Japanese Government realized that victory was impossible, since on June 22, 1945, the United State had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, as two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Then, on August 9, United Stated dropped an second bomb on Nagasaki