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Japanese Invasion Of China
A clash occured between the Chinese and Japanese, this was followed by indications of intentified military activity. The reason for the japanese to bully the chinese was because they wanted to expand and take over.The effects and impact of this was, the surrender of all Japanese forces, and China became a permanent member of the U.N. -
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Rape of Nanking
Japanese forces took over Nanking and the General ordered for the city of Nanking to be destroyed but Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities agains civilians about 200,000 males were murdered and at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages were raped, thus the name rape of Nanking. The reason for the Japanese even coming in to Nanking was they had planned on taking over to build and expand their empire. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was a German term for lightning War, this was a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemies. German forces tried to use the Blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before sucessfully employing the tactic with invasions at Belgium, the Netherlands, and France was used by German commander Erwin Rommel during the North African Campaign of WWII, and it was adapted by U.S. General George Patton for his army's European operations. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
1.5 million German troops invaded Poland all along its 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory. To Hitler the conquest of Poland would bring more living space for the Germans. The native slavs would be enslaved. Polish territory divided. -
Fall Of Paris
This was a German invasion of France during WWII. THe results in this were decisive German victory, and the fall of the French third republic, and the establishment of victory France. @ million parisians had already fled and for the Germans to get revenge the French was turned to surrender. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Three great army groups smashed across the frontier into Soviet terrioty. This invasion covered a distance of two thousand miles. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in WWII. Hitler believed German's master race needed living space in the east. For the rest of the war in the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht would be short of infantry and support servies. Parallels have been drawn with Napoleon's invasion of Russia. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii territory. This attack wa sintended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and to protect Japan so the could advance into Malaya and the East Indies. The attack damaged a total of 21 ships and killed more than 2,300 americans. This attack on Pearl Harbor was a suprise to the whole country. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officals of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wansee. This was to ensuer the cooperation of administration leaders of the final solution where most jews in Europe would be deported to ploand and killed. -
Bataan Death March
People were forced from Saisaih and Manveleus to camp O'Donnell by the Japanese army of 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. Overall 21,000 dead Filipino and americans and there was 65 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt agaisnt deportations to extermination camps. This uprising insppired other revolts throughout German occupied Eastern Europe. The revolts did this so that the Germans would stop klling and so theat the Jewish people could be freed.This left the Jewish population between 55,000 and 60,000 people. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raided Hamburg, Germany by night while Americans bombed it by day. These attacks went on until November of that year. This happened because Americans and British wanted to break down Germany's forces so they wouldn't want to be in the war, they wanted to break their will to fight. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed during the first british raid. -
Operation Thunderclap
Code for a cancelled operation. This was used for German propaganda. It was a massive attack on Berlin in the beleif that would cause 220000 deaths with 110000 killed, many of them were Germans, which would shatter German morale and get them to participate more in the war. -
D-Day (Normandy Landing)
Was the landing operation of the allied invasion of Normandy. Operation overload was the largest seaborne invasion in history. This was a Allied victory, with five Aliied beachheads established in Normandy. This was the best possible time and place to attack on Germany and get France back. In the end they got Paris baack. -
Battle Of The Bulge
German armies launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the West in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily frosted Ardennes. In this battle Hitler attempted to splt the allied armies in Northwest Europe by means of suprise. Approximately 30,000 soldiers and 44,000 infantry forces were killed or captured. America lost about 62,000 forces and the British lost about 2,000 troops. -
Liberation Of Concentration Camp
Soviet soldiers entered the Majdanek camp and later overran several killing centers. On January 27, 1945 they entered Auschwitz and found hundreds of sick prisoners. Tens of thousands of survivors migrated west. Many Jews were afraid to go home. The reason for all this happening was to get them to free al the prisoners. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This battle was the American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during WWII stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast, following this air and naval came into the fight after about a month of fighting the marines wiped out the defending forces. This was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way where they were supposed to. -
Battle of Okinawa
A series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Island, the 82 day battle lasted from April 1 until June 22. Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. ninety percent of the buildings were distroyed. This was oart of the three point plan the americans had for winning the war. -
VE Day
Great Britian and the U.S. celebrated their victory in Europe on this day. urope cities put up flags up and rejoiced in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. This battle and celebrating hapened because the Nazi's were bullying Europe and German soldiers were storming in and taking over. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nigasaki, during the final stage of WWII. Two bombings which killed at least 129,000 people. Thisresulted in Japan surrenduring and allies victory. The reason why this happened was because the only way President Truman could attack Japan without losing large numbers of american soldiers. -
VJ Day
The anouncment the Japan surrendered unconditionaly to the allies, effectively ending wwII. They surrendered because they were giving up. The Japanese soldiers were devistated and started killing war prisoners and then killing themselves.
