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Once Japan conquered China they killed and tortured many people. The commanders of the soldiers encouraged them to be ar brutal as possible leading to around 300,000 people being killed. -
Stalin and Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact. This pact was meant to keep peace between these countries. But, Germany decided to plan secretly with the USSR to divide Poland. -
Germany invaded Poland. The invasion of Poland that Germany started was the start of the second world war. -
Germany broke the non aggression pact. Once the pact was broken, he decided to invade the Soviet Union. This led to many bad things. -
The United States cut off all ties with Japan. They cut off their sales of iron and oil & Japan began to get furious. -
To retaliate with their anger, there was a surprise bombing on the US Naval Base on one of the Hawaiian islands by Japan. This even was the event that brought the United States into World War II. -
D-Day is known to be the biggest land and sea attack in history. The allied powers landed on a beach in Normandy, France and slowly invaded and attacked unexpectedly. -
For the first time during battle, the Japanese deployed kamikaze bombers. Kamikaze bombers are “suicidal” bombers that risk their lives to bomb an area. They get into a plane and just straight dive their plane into where they want to make a destruction. The Japanese soldiers refused to give up in battle & tortured the people. -
This situation happened when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city Hiroshima, Japan. The US was trying to get Japan to surrender and back out of the war. They did not stand down. -
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the city of Nagasaki, Japan was bombing by the United States. This bomb was the second and final warning for the Japanese to surrender. These two bombs took hundreds of thousands of innocent souls.