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this event started the second Sino-Japanese war. The japanese quickly captured all of Chinas Key ports and industrial centers, including cities. Massacers and atrocities happened often.The most well know is when Japanese troops slaughtered almost 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. Many Chinese were killed by the Japanese air force. There were also savage reprisals carried out against Chinese pesents. This led, by the war’s end, to about 20 million Chinese peole
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When Japanese marched into Chinas Capitol Nanking and murdered 300,000 out of 600,000 people
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The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland Britain and France, promising to protect Poland's borders five months earlier, declared war on Germany this marked the begining og world War 2
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Germany invades poland and within weeks Poland is defeted within weeks. Nazi germany occupied most of poland and it remained that way until January 1945
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a military tactic designed to create disoraganization among enemy forces
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Hilter uses his Bitzkrieg attack to make the French flee from Paris looking for refugee
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the code for a cancelled operation
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Hitler sent his army east in a huge invasion of the Soviet Union and they lost the battle the started
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Hundreds of Japaanesee planes attacked the American Navel base on Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted 2 hours and destroyed the base at Pearl Harbor. The next day america entered WW2
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When the Nazi party and German government officials gathered to discuss the "final solution of thr jewish question
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The U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camps. Thousands died
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one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II
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considered to be the turning point in WW2
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british bombers raid Hambug, germany at nght while Americans bomb it by day
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Allied troops landed along the French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany Gen. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft helped the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in continental Europe
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The second world war seemed over until Germany attacked again attempting to turn the war in Hitlers favor
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America invaded Iwo Jima to try to capture a base near the Jaoanesse coast
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The operation was to move forward following the conclusion of fighting on Iwo Jima. To support the invasion at sea.
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.
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the end of World War 2
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on this day both America and great britain celebrate aa victory in europe
