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Japanese invasion of China
Mainly faught between Republic of China and Empire of Japan.
Japan wanted more resources wanted more industrial and military power but didn't have the space -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Was marked as the start of WWI, Germany sent in people on foot and in tanks to invade. By September 3,1939 announced they were at war -
German Blitzkrieg
A German term 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. -
Operation Barbarossa
June 22,1941-January 7,1942
Hitler sent his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, with 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Bombing on Pearl Harbor
The rampage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight large battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Wannasee Conference
government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Operation Gomorrah
Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion
The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from ended in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Operation of Thunderclap
The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale.
