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Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China all started when they tried to say that the Chinese troops had fired first. Japanese then began their invasion on China. Chinese forces couldn't fight back. Japanese military was better organized and incredibly brutal. China fought Japan with the help of Germany and the United States. Rape of Nanking was considered one of the most shocking......... -
Japanese Invasion of China ( Part 2)
[Japanese Invasion of China]( casualties and 60 million made homeless. www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htm)
.......incident in modern history. The war with Japan had lead to 4 million casualties and 60 million made homeless.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htm
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Rape of Nanking
Rape of Nanking
No fewer than 369,366 Chinese men, women and children were killed by invading Japanese troops in Nanking and its vicinity during the 1937-38 massacre.The rape of Nanking began on December 13, 1937 when the Japanese Imperial Army captured Nanking (Nanjing), which was then China's capital. Japanese soldiers ransacked city streets, randomly killing Chinese men, women and children Within hours, the......... -
Rape of Naking ( Part 2 )
Rape of Nanking
..... streets and alleys of Nanking were littered with the bodies of civilians and prisoners of war The slaughter continued for several months. As many as 80,000 women of all ages were raped by Japenese invasion troops.
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German Blitzkrieg ( Part 3 )
German Blitzkrieg
......“Sturmtruppen”, or Storm Troops, designed to rapidly overrun enemy positions using momentum and speed. Later, Blitzkrieg evolved into modern mobile warfare. Heavily armored tanks supported by infantry, motorized infantry, artillery and air power, would rapidly drive through enemy lines to capture strategic enemy positions or to encircle the enemy. -
German blitzkrieg ( Part 4)
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German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg, or “The Lightning War”, was an operating concept developed as a solutionto the trench warfare of World War I. While American, Russian, British and other armies developed similar concepts, only the German generals received support for their operational plans prior to World War II. Germany's Blitzkrieg tactics overwhelmed Poland in September 1939, then, after a pause, crushed Denmark......... -
German Blitzkrieg ( Part 2 )
German Blitzkrieg
....Norway, and the Low Countries in April-May 1940, and finally France in June 1940. While the word Blitzkrieg is well remembered, it only became popular from use by British and U.S. journalists, while German officers used the term "bewegungskrieg," meaning war of movement, to describe their operations. Blitzkrieg first appeared in the form of elite infantry units known as....... -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Germany's Invasion of Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming in power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resent the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles....... -
Germany's Invasion of Poland ( Part 2)
Germany's Ivasion of Poland
.....after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibly of a French-Polish military alliances against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm. In the mid and late 1930s, France and especially Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement. The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in....... -
Germany's Invasion of Poland ( Part 3 )
Germany's Invasion of Poland
........Europe by making limited concessions of Germans demands. In Britain, public opinion tended to favor some revision of the territorial and military provision of the Versailles treaty.
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Germany's Invasion of Poland ( Part 4 )
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Fall of Paris ( Part 2 )
Fall of Paris
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Fall of Paris
Fall of Paris
After D-Day the fall of Paris was going to happen and people knew it was coming. Theplan was to attack the French-Belgium-German boarder where the allies would not expect it and the main hit would be on France. The Germans we relying on a surprise attack and they would use surprise blitzkrieg or lightning war techniques. Manstein's plan and why they would attack france was to envisage the Panzer..... -
Operation Barbarossa ( Part 2 )
Operation Barbarossa
..attack that when the attack on Russia starts the world will hold its breath.Three army groups attacked Russia on June 22nd 1941. Army Group North, led by von Leeb, Army Group Centre, commanded by von Bock and Army Group South commanded by von Rundastedt. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the name given to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941. Barbarossa the largest military attack of World War Two and was to have appalling consequences for the Russian people.NOperation Barbarossa was based on a massive attack based on blitzkrieg. Hitler had said of such an...... -
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Pearl Habor
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
December seventh, 1941: the surprise was complete. The attacking planes came intwo waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet... -
Pearl Harbor (Part 2)
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.....that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. In one stroke the Japanese action silenced the debate that had divided Americans ever since the German defeat of France left England alone in the fight against the Nazi terror Approximately three hours later, Japanese planes began a day-long attack on American facilities in the Philippines...... -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
In July 1941, Herman Goering, writting under imstructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinchard Heydric, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, to summit ''as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question...... -
Wannsee Conference (Part 2)
Wannsee Conference
.....''Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the central Office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 others from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee a suburb of berlin. The agenda was simple and focused: to devise a plan that would render a ''final solution to the Jewish question'' in Europe. -
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Battle of Midway (Part 2 )
Battle of Midway
....of communication intelligence successes, the U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces, sinking the four Japanese carriers, that had attacked Pearl Harbor only six months before, while only losing of one carrier. After Midway, the Americans and their Allies took the offensive in the Pacific.
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Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific. Before this battle the Japanese were on the offensive, capturing territory throughout Asia and the Pacific. By their attack, the Japanese had planned to capture Midway to use as an advance base, as well as to entrap and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Because...... -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while americans bomb it by day in its own ''Blits Week.'' Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few......... -
Operation Gomorrah ( Part 2)
Operation Gomorrah
......hours. The explosive power was the
equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most
destructive raids. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.
Britain lost only 12 aircraft in this raid (791 flew)
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D-Day Normandy Invasion
Normandy Invasion
On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the longawaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though they had been fighting in mainland Italy for some nine months, the Normandy invasion was in a strategically more important region, setting the stage to drive the Germans from France and ultimately destroy..... -
D-Day Normandy Invasion ( Part 2)
D-Day Normandy Invasion (Part 2)
.....National Socialist regime. It had been four long years since France had been overrun and the British compelled to leave continental Europe three since Hitler had attacked the Soviet Union and two and a half since the United States
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D-Day Normandy Invasion ( Part 3)
D-Day Normandy Invasion
.........1942 the Germans had been stopped and forced into slow retreat in eastern
Europe, defeated in North Africa and confronted in Italy.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1749.html
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Liberation of Concentration Camps
The first concentration at Majdanek cap was liberated July 24, 1944 by Russian troops. Allied troops entered Nazi territories, the final rescues and liberation transpired in 1945. Allied troops who came across the concentration camps were shocked at what they found. There were huge ditches filled with bodies of the exterminated. They found rooms of baby shoes and rooms of clothes and..... -
Liberation of Concentration Camps ( Part 2)
Liberation of Concentration Camps
..... belongings. The gas chambers had fingernail marks on the walls all testified to Nazi brutality. General Eisenhower insisted on photographing and documenting the horror so that future generations would not ignore history and repeat its mistakes. Eisenhower also forced villagers neighboring the death and concentration camps to view what had occurred in their own backyards, and even.... -
Liberation of Concentration Camps(Part 3 )
Liberation of Concentration Camps
.....properly bury all of the dead.
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Battle of Iwo Jima ( Part 2 )
Battle of Iwo Jima
was to finally destroy Japan’s
merchant fleet so that the Japanese mainland could not be supplied from the food rich
sectors of South East Asia which Japan still controlled. The Americans also caused the
destruction of Japan’s remaining industrial base by the bombing of it by the Americans
Air Force. If the......... -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima is a very small Pacific island just over 4.5 miles long and 2.5 miles wide. Iwo
Jima was supposed to have tactical importance. The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in
February 1945. The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans
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Battle of Iwo Jima ( Part 4 )
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Battle of Iwo Jima ( Part 3 )
Battle of Iwo Jima ..... Americans could get the island they would have two airfields on the island. Under Japan’s control they as in the could be used by Japanese fighter planes to attack American bombers on their flights to Japan. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was an operation that was brought up In August 1944 there was a plan to attack the city of Berlin which would cause 220,000 casualties and 110,000 killed, a lot of them were to be german. The plan was not used. There was a meeting held in which Russia and the Americans were asked to help bomb raid vital cities and they agreed. They made up a plan that they still going to.... -
Operation Thunderclap ( Part 3)
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Air crafts from flying across. Bomber command
carried out the first raid on Dresden on Feburary 13. 796 Lancasters and 9 Mosquitos
were dispatched in two seperate raids and dropped 1,478 tons of high explosives and
1,182 tons of incendiary bombs. There were different groups that had different marking
methods. A band of clouds still remain in the area and this raid was 244 Lancasters
dropped which ......... -
Operation Thunderclap ( Part 4)
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.....is more then 800 tons of bombs. The second raid was 3 hours later, and
was an all-Lancaster attack, the weather was now clear and 529 Lancasters dropped
more than 1,800 tons of bombs with great accuracy.
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Operation Thunderclap ( Part 2)
Operation Thunderclap
.....bomb vital cities in the
communications zone of the Eastern Front Germany, these cities were Dresden, Berlin,
Chemnitz, and Leipzig. Bombs were dropped on these cities intensively and were
dropped to disrupt the German Eastern Front lines to help the Soviet advance.
Americans were supposed to start the first raid on Dresden, but because of bad weather
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Battle of Okinowa ( Part 2)
Battle of Okimowa
......ndustrial land. It had strategic importance. There were four airfields on the island that America needed to control in order to help defeat the Japanese. America also had a problem because they did not have much intelligence information about Okinawa. There were over 130,000 Japanese troops on the island with more than 450,000 civilians. The.... -
Battle of Okinowa
Battle of Okinowa
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945. The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Okinawa was one of the major battles of World War Two. The Americans wanted to destroy what was left of Japan’s merchant fleet and use airstrips in the region to launch bombing raids on Japan’s..... -
Battle of Okinawa ( Part 3 )
Battle of OKinowa
..... Japanese troops on the island were commanded by Lieutenant, General Ushijima who had been ordered to hold onto the island at all costs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-okinawa-ends -
V-E Day ( Part 2 )
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V-E Day
V-E Day
V-E Day is a day of celebration to mark the day the world war 2 allies accepted that the armed forces of the nazi group had surrendered. This meant the end of World War 2. On April 30 Hitler committed suicide during the Battles of Berlin, so the surrender was by German successor, the President of Germany Karl Dönitz, also the Flensburg government. The military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May.... -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs ( Part 3)
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Dropping of Atomic Bombs
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
Germany was already defeated. But the war against Japan in the Pacific, continued to rage and did not end. President Harry S. Truman, was warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to an end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay.... -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs ( Part 2)
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
....dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima blast that was equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning. -
V-J
V-J
Victory over Japan Day or Victory in the Pacific Day. This was made when the Japanese surrendered ending world war 2. V-J day is on two of the days when the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made . Its August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, its August 14, 1945, as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War 2. -
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Battle of the Bulge
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_the_bulge.htm
The Battle of Bugle began in December 1945 and did not come to and end until Janurary 1945. Hitler wanted to do this so that he could weaken or break the alliances so himself and his army would not be defeated. The battle started with a two hour bombardment of the Allies lines that was followed by a huge armoured attack with the majority of the German armoured might based at the Schnee Eifel. Hitler decided to.... -
Battle of the Bulge ( Part 2)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_the_bulge.htm
...send a quarter of a million troops across an 85 mile stretch of the Allied front he land his troops passed through stretched from southern Belgium into Luxembourg. In deadly cold winter weather the German troops advanced about 50 miles into the Allied lines, creating a deadly "bulge" pushing into Allied defenses, that is how the name came to be. Hitler thought of this as he would split the allies and they..... -
Battle of the Bulge ( Part 3)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_the_bulge.htm
......would not be able to
defend for themselves. Hitler’s plan was to launch a massive attack using three armies
on the Allies.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_the_bulge.htm
