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In the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese killed an estimated 150,000 male war prisoners, 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women of all ages, many were killed in the process. Shortly after the end of the war, The leader, Matsui was found guilty of war crimes and was executed.
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The German Blitzkrieg was Germanys ’s strategy to avoid a long war. At first, the German Blitzkrieg seemed to succeed. Soviet forces were driven back more than 600 miles, However, the Soviet Union launched a counteroffensive in November 1942, destroying the German army. Germany became embroiled in a long war, leading ultimately to its defeat in May 1945.
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After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is Liberated. German resistance was light,commander of the German defied an order by Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn the city to the ground before its liberation. The German commander who signed the paper to agree to Hitlers plans was arrested and Paris was liberated.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack
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Wannsee Conference, meeting of nazi officials in the berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the final solution. The conference made them want to gather all the jews and send them to labour factories. https://www.britannica.com/event/Wannsee-Conference -
The Battle of Midway was a battle between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on pearl harbour. Japan’s hopes of neutralising the United States as a naval power changed world war ll in the Pacific. As a result of the U.S. victory in the Battle of Midway, Japan abandoned its plan to expand its reach in the Pacific, and would remain on the defensive for the remainder of World War II.
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On July 24, 1943, British bombers raided Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bombed it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July.
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The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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Battle of the Bulge was hitler’s last major offensive against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The German troops’ failure to divide Britain, France and America paved the way to victory for the allies.
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Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. American forces invaded the island. 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed
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The concentration camp was opened and advertised as the “first concentration camp for political prisoners.” And that’s what it was in its early years, a forced labour detention camp for those judged as “enemies” of the Nazi party: trade unionists, communists, and Democratic Socialists at first, but eventually Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and of course, Jews who were held in a bad environment that's purpose was to dehumanise people.
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At the Potsdam Conference, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the Big Three Powers, who had defeated Nazi Germany, met in the city of Potsdam. The summit also gave an early hint of the tensions that developed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which eventually led to a Cold War.
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On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrated Victory in Europe Day reliving the defeat of the nazi war machine during the war. V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth when Stalin made a radio broadcast saying the war was over.
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On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The explosion killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomber dropped another bomb, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
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On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory Over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
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