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Japanese invasion 1937
The war was a catastrophic conflict for the Chinese people, causing up to 20 million casualties. The war began in July 1937. An incident near the Marco Polo Bridge , near Beijing when the japanese to make an exuse to invade. It began because the chinese wouldn't let japanese pass over. The Japan planted a bomb in nese troops opened fire on local soldiers a brief ceasefire was negotiated, however both sides increased military numbers the region. -
German invasion of poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw. After the heavy bombimg warsaw surrender. -
Fall of paris
German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day, as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe. Hitler wanted paris to be on his side in the war -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland , Denmark ,Norway , Belgium , the Netherlands, Luxembourg , France , Yugoslavia , and Greece. Germany did not defeat Great Britain, Graamn forces wanted to over turn any enemy so that the would surrender to help fght against the US, Great britain and France. Germany was unable to defeat the Soviet Union, which together with Great Britain and the United States seized the initiative from Germany. -
Pearl Habor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted two hours, The Japanese destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died, and another 1,000 were wounded. Happened because they US wasn't happy about japan bombing chine for expansionism. Japanese became allies with Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. 2 years later US enter the war -
Baatan death march
Surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers were forced to march in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. General Homma Masaharu,was held responsible for the death march, a war crime,and was executed. -
Battle of MIdway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan World War II. The United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. About two-thirds of Japna's air crews survived. More devastating was the loss of trained mechanics and aircraft ground crews who went down with the ships. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. With millitary and civilan combinded was 2 million casulties. Soviet forces surrounded and crushed an entire German army under.General Paulus surrendered what remained of his army-some 91,000 men. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting. -
D-Day
More than 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 13,ooo aircraft and 5,000 ships supported the D-Day invasion. 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin to slow, slog across europe. less than twelve months after invasion, Germany surrendered to the allies. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the craggy, bombed-out island of Iwo Jima. The island’s Japanese defenders had entrenched themselves in a honeycombed network of caves, tunnels, pillboxes and spider holes, that would take the US several weeks to try defeat the japanese. Nearly 7,000 Marines and some 21,000 Japanese troops lay dead. The US invasion of Japan drop an atomic bomb fell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki leading japan to surrender. -
Battle of okinawa
287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties,including 14,000 dead.At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. -
VE-Day
German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II -
VJ-Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. The Allies were consistently bombarding Japan from air and sea, dropping some 100,000 tons of explosives on more than 60 Japanese cities and towns. General Douglas MacArthur, along with the Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army, Yoshijiro Umezu, signed the official Japanese surrender aboard the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri, effectively ending ww2.
