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Japanese Invasion of China
In July of 1937 Japan claimed Chinese troops fired on them at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Japan used this as an excuse to launch a full invasion on China using the conquered Manchuna as a launch base for their troops. November 1931, China's most important part Shanghai, fell and Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek's capital fell in December that year. In "Rape of Nanking" senior officers allowed Japanese army to ransack Nanking murdering tens of thousands. total death toll for Nanking was 250,000. -
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Within five months one million Chinese people were under Japanese control. By the end of 1937 all major cities were captured.
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Germany's Invasion of Poland continued
border had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. The demarcation line for the partition of Germany- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River. In October 1939, Germany directly annexed those former Polish territories along German's eastern border: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. The remainder of German-occupied Poland (including the cities of Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Lublin) -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland -
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was organized as the so-called Generalgouvernement (General Government) under a civilian Governor General, the Nazi party lawyer Hans Frank. Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Poland remained under Greman occupation until January 1945.
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German Blitzkrieg
Germany tried to avoid a long war. Their strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. They were victorious for more than two years by using the "Blitzkrieg" (Lightning War). It required the concentration of offensive weapons, along a nrrow front. This would be how they broke the barrier and get behind enemy lines. Germany used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland (September 1939), Denmark (April 1940), Norway (April1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), -
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(April 1940), Norway (April 1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), Luxembourg (May 1940), France (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), and Grece (April 1941). Germany didn't defeat Great Britian. German forces invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941. Soviet forces were driven back more than 600 miles to the gates of Moscow. December 1941 Hitler declard war on the United States, it added economic and militart power to the coalition arrayed against him. A second German offensive -
German Blitzkrieg part 3
against the Soviet Union in 1942 brought German forces in east to the shores of the Volga River and the city of Stanlingrad. The oviet Union launched a counteroffensive in November 1942, trapping and destroying an entire German army at Stanlingrad. Germany became embroiled in a long war, leading ultimatley to its defeat in May 1945
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Operation Barbasossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. It covered from the North Cape to the Black Sea. The forces invading Russia represented the finest army to fight in thr twentieth century. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War 2, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war -
Operation Barbarossa part two
two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resorces. Germans had underestimated their opponent. Germany's industrial perparations had not even begun. The greatest mistake that the Germans made was to come as conquerors, not as liberators-they were determined to enslave the Slavic population and exterminate the Jews. In Barbarossa's first month German armies bit deep into Soviet territory; panzer armies encircled large Soviet forces at Minsk and Smolensk, while armored -
Operation Barbarossa part three
spearheads reached two-thirds of thr distance to Moscow and Leningrad.In September the Germans got enough supplies forward to renew their drives; the results were the encirclement battles of Kiev in September and Bryansk-Vyazma in October, each netting 600,000 prisoners. Got from: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor part two
and Italy declared war on theUnited States. Congress gave the okay to also attack them. Two years into the battle America was finally entered into World War II.
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Pearl Harbor
Beforen8 am hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked thr American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The fight lasted for two hours leaving horrifying dammage. Almost 20 naval vessels, including 8 huge battleships, and almost 200 airplanes, were destroyed. More than 2,000 American soldiers and saliors died, another 1,000 were injured. On December 8th President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, and they approved. Three days later Japanese allies Germany,