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Japanese invasion of china also known as the second sino-Japanese war, begun due to china having a full scale resistance of expansion which caused conflict between Japan and china in 1931. This conflict was broke up into three sections, in 1938 when the Japanese advanced, in 1944 the virtual stalemate, and the final stage when allied counter attacks brought Japan to surrender. -
Rape of Nanjing was a massacre of Japanese citizens and surrendered Japanese imperial soldiers that went on a ravaging rampage. This massacre lasted from December of 1937 to January of 1938. Thousands upon thousands where killed and later on when there was a new leader he demanded that any one that was involved with the murdering and raping was charges with war crimes.
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the German Blitzkrieg is a war tactic that included tanks, artillery, and planes. These war tactics are commonly used by the German soldiers to attack their enemies. The blitzkrieg was created by Prussia because they new it would have a swift and forceful impact on the enemies, saving them resources. -
the fall of Paris also know as the battle of France was when the Germans invaded France. The Germans also conquered the lower countries in France. In total Belgium, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands had fallen. -
pearl harbor is a military base in Honolulu, Hawaii in the United states. It was surprise attacked by the Japanese military. The Japanese military attacked because the relationship between them and the U.S. was strained because of Japan's attitude towards china. After the attack it drove the U.S to join the war to help its allies defeat germany. -
the Bataan death march took place along 5 to 10 days in April 1942. was a mix of 66,000 Filipinos and 10,000 Americans prisoners that marched 66 miles to then get hauled down to camps in unsanitary rail carts to walk another seven miles to a new camp. This was called the death march because the prisoners either survived making it there or they would die or be killed on their way to the camp. -
The wannsee conference was held in a villa in Germany, and was held by the Nazi party. This meeting was held to find the “final solution” for the “Jewish question”. This lead to concentration camps and the decrease in the jewish population -
Italy was invaded on July 10, 1943 by the allies. During this invasion Russian was being attacked by the Germans so the allies wanted to invade Italy to try and relive the pressure on Russia. So they took out some of the Germany soldiers. Shortly after they invaded Italy surrendered which meant that the allies could focus on fight the Germans -
d-day also know as the second front was when 156000 canadian, American and british troop landed on the beaches along the coasts of normandy. This forced Germany into a two front war, and them having to split up their troops. The germans eventually were defeated marking the end of the war in europe. -
over many months over hundreds of concentration camps were liberated when they found out the poor condition of these camps. When liberation hit these camps it marked the days of freedom and no more pain being imprisoned and enslaved for the Nazis. All these camps were closed around Germany and banned for the human right act, so nothing as disgusting as those camps would happen again. in 1944 the first camp was liberated and in 1945 each camp was liberated -
the battle of iwo jima was a dispute between the Empire of japan and the United States. The United States declared they were going to attack the islands of iwo jima. They where forming this attack because they was a part of the pacific crusade against japan. This battle was the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States ever recorded but that didn't matter because it was another win in the United states books. -
VE day marked one of the most victorious and world changing days in history. VE day stands for victory in europe day, it marked the day that germany surrendered from ww2. That meant the war was finally over and life could go back to no hatred and war going on around everywhere around them. -
the first atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber at 8;15 on Hiroshima, they dropped the bomb named little boy. This estimate killed about 80 000 people immediately and many more later due to the air quality and radiation. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing roughly 40 000 people. These bombs opened japans eyes to the damage of these new bombs , so japan surrendered in fear they would drop more bombs on them -
VJ day victory over japan day on September, 2 of 1945. when it was announced that japan had surrendered the people around the world broke out in celebration. This marked the end of world war two so the world celebrated the end of the most deadliest wars to be recorded. These celebrations lasted over two days due to the pure joy everyone felt that there would be no more death related conflict. -
battle of the bulge was the last big attack the germans made to try and push the allies back, to give them some time to recover. “Bulge” also known as the wedge was a very successful plan because the allies did get pushed back so they could stall the attack on the germans