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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China started September 18 1931, after invading China, Japan occupied Manchuria, which then became an independent state called Manchukuo. Japan's desire was to prove themselves superior. Japan also wanted military power but needed it's resources so Japan expanded into Taiwan and Korea. Japan also wanted war because they were being controlled by military officers. The outcome of all of this was an outraged Japanese delegation stormed out of the Leauge of Nations. -
Rape Of Nanking
The rape of Nanking was a horrific event in which between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assulted. This event happened over a span of six weeks and was in the Chinese city of Nanking. At the time, Nanking was the capital of Nationalist China and it took decades for the city to recover. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany's goal was to avoid a long war and defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. They relyed on a new military tactic called Blitzkrieg, also known as (lighting war). Germany forces tried blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before employing the tactic with invasions of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France in 1940. Germany couldn't defeat the Soviet Union, Great Britian, nor the United States. Germany became embrolled in a long war leading ultimately to its defeat in May 1940 -
Germany's Invasion of Poland 1939
Poland was invaded by Germany on September 1, 1939. The German army vanquished the Polish army within two weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia, Germany in the north, Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, took down Polish defenses along the border. Warsaw was defenseless against the Germans. Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
Fall of Paris
The Germans entered and occupy Paris at 8 p.m. French premier Paul Reynaud asked President Franklin Roosevelt for any help possible. Roosevelt replied by saying he would send material aid and was also willing to get this promise published. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22 of 1941 Germany invaded Soviet a Union. Codenamed for Operation Barbarossa, it was the largest military operation in history involving more than 3 million Axis troops and 3,500 tanks. This happened because Germany had serious deficiencies. From the beginning the war in the East became an ideological struggle.waged with ruthlessness. But the effect was the invasion covered from the North Cape to the Black Sea. It was the crucial turning point to WWII. (history.com & history.co.uk ) -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7,1941 the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Hololulu, Hawaii had a surprise attack from hundreds of Japanese fighter planes. The Japanese destroyed 20 American naval vessels, eight battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 soldiers and sailers died in the attack, 1,000 were wounded.The next day President Frankil D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, Three days later Japanese allies Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. -
Wannsee Conference
In Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucats to coordinate with the first soluions . It kind of happened because the Nazis would bureacrats to coordinate the very first solutions. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a disaster for the ghetto residents, it began after German troops and police entered the Warsaw Ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. And by May 16, 1943 the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was an aerial bombing campaign that occurred in the European theater of operations during WWII , started July 24, 1943 to August 3. It was a sustained bombing campaign against German port city of Hamburg. This effect was it destroyed 16,000 apartment buildings. ( militartyhistory.about.com ) -
D-Day Invasion of Normandy
On June 6, 1944, the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and stayed on the beaches of Normandy,France,Thiis was the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazis during World War II. In three months the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was big German ofensive campaign. It was launched through the forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War IIThe surprise attack caught the allied forces off gaurd.The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
Operation Thunderclap
This operation was based of all the raids. It was another step in British War Cabinets planned of area bombing ---to Harris the best way to end the war. But in doing so the effects weren't so great there was a complete devastation of 1600 square ares, and 100,00* maybe more but of humans dead. ( ww2orc.tripod.com ) -
Battle of Iwo Jima
One of the third of all Marinesloseduring the World War II .It happened to be that it was only a large engagement ofthe war in which Allied.Allieds were forced to suffer more than Casualties than their Japanese Counterparts . -
Battle Of Okinawa
Allieds had forced to invade the island of Okinawa and to engage the Japanese. This had happened because they were the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War .Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces . -
VE Day
VE Day Stands for Victory in Europe Day. It is the celebration and acceptance of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed force. In some places, thousands of people gathered to celebrate. And meanwhile, around 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. -
Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs
President at the time, Harry S. Truman was stuck in a bad situation. If he were to send American troops to invade Japan, there would be a lot of casualties. So Truman decided to test America's new weapon, the atmoic bomb. The atomic bomb was dropped on HIroshima and Nagasaki. Combined, both bombs cause 120,000 deaths immediately, tens of housands in the follwing days, and had long lasting effects on the people because of radiation . -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945 news quickly spread of the surrender of the Japanese. It was the end of WWII. Since then both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” It has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.
