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A war broke out between Japanese and Chinese troops near Peiping in north china. Japans military decisions were also influenced by ideas of Pan-Asianism. japan started to see themselves as a potential leader that could unite all the Asian nations together in a struggle against the Western imperialists.
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The Japanese killed an estimated 150,000 male war prisoners, also killed another 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of who were mutilated or killed in the process.
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Poland did not want too hand over there land so Germans invaded the land. 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.
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the term blitzkrieg means "lighting war"
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american and filipino troops where forced too march a 65 mile march too prison camps
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ghettos where left too die
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160,000 people fought in normandy
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Soviet soldiers where the first ones too liberate concentration camps. the soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.
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the Americans invaded Iwo Jima
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this day whas the last day the the germens where on offence. germans put 250,000 to war
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287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army
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the Europeans and the Americans defeated the Nazi army on this day
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the united states where the first and only people too use the atomic bomb during warfare. they dropped the atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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japan has surrendered to its unconditionally to the Allies.
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Japanese attacked pearl harbor in Hawaii. more than 2000 american troops where killed during that attack.