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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
He made his itinerary public so everyone could know it. A member from a nationalist group and there was seven people that where sent to do the job. They where not successful until they driver made a wrong turn down a road. -
The Armenian Genocide
It was a systematic mass murder and etheric cleansing. They killed around 1 million Armenians from Anatolia and from other regions. Most of the people that where killed women, children, and elderly. -
Appeasement
Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. This term was most often used in foreign policy of the UK governments -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the end of the war the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Japan invades China
It mainly involved china republic and japan empire in military conflict. it started with the double seven incident but then more and more troops got sent and the issue became bigger. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Rape of Nanjing was also known as The Nanjing Massacre. This was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing. The Japanese army murdered tens or hundreds of thousands of unarmed people. -
Hitlers invasion of Poland
Nazis justified their invasion in Poland by saying they were going to invade Germany. Mid September the Soviet Union joined Germany and invaded Poland with them. -
Blitzkrieg
The term Blitzkrieg was commonly used in western areas. The Germans used this in the blitz or lightening war to surprise attack using a rapid raid. -
Turning of the Tide.
The German army threatening to cut off oil supply to the allies. they continued to advance into soviet oil fields. There where also a few attacks made by the allied which helped to continue these advances. -
Desert War
The North African Campaign was also known as the Desert War and it included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts. These wars where fought between the allied and axis power who had interest in Africa for awhile. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
The attack was a surprise attack by the Japanese on the US naval base in Hawaii. The attack made the US formal enter WW2. The Japanese destroyed 188 US aircraft and killed 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
It was a major naval battle between the Japanese and the US naval and air force. Both sides ended up doing good damage to each side but it knocked them both down so fast they both retreated and Japan stopped the surprise invasion. -
Battle of Midway
This was a major naval battle between the US and Japanese and it was major because they made their aircraft carriers unrepairable. With US being more industrialized the little damage they did get was able to bounce back instantly compared to japan who couldn't reproduce things as fast. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein had prevented the Axis powers from advancing further into Egypt. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The US denates 2 nuclear weapons on these Japanese cities during the morning. Most of the people killed in these attacks where civilians and this was to force the Japanese to surrender and it ended up working. Between the 2 bombings they killed 129,000-226,000 people.