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Japenese invasion of China
History of invasionThe Japanese invasion was based on economically reasons. Japan wanted to control the resources of China, both mineral resources and agricultral production.The effects of this invasion were 80,000 women raped, 10-20 million chinsese deaths, and a very brutal ending. Even though the Japanese were unable to force victory, the Chinese couldnt evict the Japanese from the teritory they conquered. -
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Rape of Nanking
History of Naking During a period of six weeks,Japnese Army forces brutally murder about 300,000 chinese and raped around 80,000 women. This all happened just because Japan couldnt wait to destroy them after a minor fight with them. As well as on both sides the anger towards eachother. After the attack, it took several decades to recover from the city being left in ruins. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
history From the 2,000 tanks and over 1000 planes, the polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.Hitler wanted living space, he planned that the racially superior Germans would colonize the territory and the native slavs would be enslaved. After, the soviets completed the liberation of Poland, and established a communist government in the nation. -
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German Blitzkrieg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/blitzkrieg_01.shtml“lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The tactic was based on Alfred von Schlieffen’s ‘Schlieffen Plan’ – this was a doctrine formed during WWI that focused on quick miliatry victory. -
Fall of paris
parisParisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris.While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet. -
Operation Barbarossa
code name Codenamed Operation Barbarossa, it was the largest military operation in history, involving more than 3 million Axis troops and 3,500 tanks. The Soviet Union was unprepared for the onslaught that came in June. Stalin refused to believe mounting evidence that an invasion was being prepared, and so his armies and air force on the frontier were caught by surprise.Despite enormous losses in territory, men and weaponry, the Soviets had fought on, and survived. -
Pearl Harbor
[history museum](www.nationalww2museum.org/visit) on a regular sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, the ships were all out in the open enjoying the nice morning not knowing they're just sitiing ducks for the Japanese. The Japanese wanted revenge and so up to 18 ships were severly damaged and more than 2,400 US service personele were killed. The morning after President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war, which was answered with resounding support by a vote of 82-0 -
Baatan Death March
deasth amrchAfter 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 (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. -
Battle of midway
midwayWorld War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. The battle began when U.S. bombers from Midway Island struck ineffectually at the Japanese carrier strike force about 220 mi southwest of the U.S. fleet.The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military struggle between -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
uprisingFrom April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
allied invasion of of italy
italyThe Allies decided to move next against Italy, hoping an Allied invasion would remove that fascist regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the near future. -
Operation gomorrah
gomarrahBritain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The effect on Hitler, too, was significant. He refused to visit the burned-out cities, as the ruins bespoke -
D-Day
ddayOverlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. Blanketed by small-arms fire and bracketed by artillery, they found themselves in hell. When it was over, the Allied Forces had suffered nearly 10,000 casualties; more than 4,000 were dead. -
liberation of concentration camps
holocaustThe Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. Also left behind were victims' belongings: 348,820 men's suits, 836,255 women's coats, and tens of thousands of pairs of shoes.The effect that these discoveries had on western public opinion paled in comparison with the impact exerted during spring 1945, when the American and British armies liberated the concentration camps located in western Germany. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
battleThe japanese defenders of the island got ino dug outs that wer deep within the volcanic rocks. It was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. After it was served as a emergeny landing site , which saved many airmen lives. -
Battle Okinawa
battlen the early pre-dawn twilight of April 1, 1945, Sgt. Takejiro Higa of the 314th Language Detachment of the U.S. 96th Infantry Division peered out at the familiar.Okinawa was defended by 77,000 troops of the Japanese 32nd Army.By June 17 the 10th Army forces penetrated and held all major positions along the last Japanese Gushichan-Itoman defensive line. -
VE day
VE dayThis day of victory is when Europe finnally got the germans to lay down threre weapons.In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
bombsIn the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. First, was to bring the war with Japan to an end. Then the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union.By 1949, the Soviets had developed their own atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race began. -
VJ Day
VJ DayAfter the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan they had nothiing left so the Japanese formally surrendered aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Truman declared this to be V-J Day -
battle of he buldge
battleIts objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously.Secretly planned down to the detail by Hitler himself, the invasion was designed to split the American-British alliance, setting them to quarreling and permitting the Führer to negotiate a peace. The losses on the first day were massive; in some places, the Allies were outnumbered ten to one.
