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japanese invasion of china
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Rape of nanking
rape of nanking During a six week period Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians in the Chinese city of Nanking. The horrifing event that happen was that 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. This event of the capital Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks. -
Germany's invasion of Polnad
germany's invasion of polandThis move was not pouplar with many germans who suppoted Hilter but resent the fact that poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War. -
German Blitzkrieg
German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. The word was used in the Wehrmacht during the wolrd war II but was commly considered to be forgien origin. THe first known use of the word blitzkrieg in an English publication occurred in an article in Time magazine in September 25, 1939, discussing the Polish campaign.
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Pearl Habor
Just before 8:00 a.m December 7,1941 hunderands of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the attack President Frankiln D. Roosevelt ask congress to declare the war on Japnan. He attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades.
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Bataan Death march
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. The estimated of 7,000 Jews perished during the uprising, while nearly 50,000 others who survived were sent to extermination or labor camps.
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D-Day
More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge January 16, 1945 also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. During the course of the month-long battle, some 500,000 German, 600,000 American and 55,000 British troops became involved. During the course of the month-long battle, some 500,000 German, 600,000 American and 55,000 British troops became involved.
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liberation of concentration camps
On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.
British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps. They had gone without food so long that their dead wrists were broomsticks tipped with claws.
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Battle of iwoa jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.
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VE day
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany.
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Battle if Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
Over the next several years, the program’s scientists worked on producing the key materials for nuclear fission–uranium-235 and plutonium.
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VJ day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.
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