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Concentration Camps
this is where large numbers of people are imprisoned and forced to do labor or to wait for a large mass exocution -
Japanese invasion of China
in 1937 imperial Japanese forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people including both soldiers and civilians -
Rape of Nanking
Much of the city was burned, and Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. In what became known as the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process. -
German Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a German word for lightning war. blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower -
Germany's invasion of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II called the battle of midway -
Pearl Harbor
pearl harbor is a US naval base by Hawaii and had a surprise attack by Japanese forces hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels including eight enormous battleships and over 300 airplanes More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack -
Death March
forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw Poland, and staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps -
Allied invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the landing on mainland Italy that took place during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted to split the allied army's in Europe it was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Fall of Paris
Paris was liberated by the french an order by Adolf Hitler was sent out to blow up Paris landmarks and burn the city to the ground before its liberation -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
the United States is the first and the only nation to use atomic bombs and when it drops an atomic bomb of Hiroshima though it marked the end of the cold war many people say it ignited it -
VJ Day
this was the day that it was announced that japan surrendered and world war 2 ended -
Potsdam Declaration
statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
the American invasion of Iwo Jima during world war the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. American lost nearly a lot of people including 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. -
Battle of Okinawa
it was the very last battle of world war 2 and one of the worst more that 180,000 U.S. army and marine corps descended on the pacific island -
VE Day
VE Day marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces
