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the Japanese attacked the Chinese. They had little local battels befor this. The Japanese raped and killed the Chienese. Within 5 months, 1 million Chinese people were under Japanese control.
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German troops invaded poland. All of Poland army defited. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes defetied Poland.
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Germans sent an attack to make the millitary disorganized. ther Germans did not want a long lasting war so the used the new tactics the blitskrieg. whipped out most of Euroup in many short attacks. Blitzkrieg means lightning war.
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The USSR was attacked. Hittler wanted to defeat communism happening in USSR, take over land in USSR and use the Soviet people for slave labour. On December 6 1941, the Soviet Union launched a major counterattack against the center of the front driving the Germans back from Moscow in chaos. the original name was Operation Fritz
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20 U.S. naval vessels was attacked at 8 a.m. 2,000 dead 1,000 wounded. America declared war on japan. 200 airplanes where destroyed.
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15 German leaders met to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the Final Solution of the Jewish Question. whanted jews gone.
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Forced to retreat back to Bataan Peninsula. on April 9, with his forces crippled by starvation and disease, U.S. General Edward King Jr surrendered his approximately 75,000 troops at Bataan.
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Operation Gomorrah was an aerial bombing campaign that occurred in the European Theater of Operations. there were 700+ bombers per attack.
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more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.
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The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops.
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VE Day is the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. It is a day were both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe.
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The Battle Of Okinawa was the Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan.
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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 the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
