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Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
The Italians started their invasion on Ethiopia on October 3rd, 1935.
There were two generals leading this invasion names were General Rodolfo Graziani and General Pietro Badoglio both of these Generals with the power they had on their side with there Italian troops pushed back the ill-armed Ethiopian troops and winning a major victory.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino War split into 3 phrases.
The first was a Japanese advance all the way to 1938 the a stalemate until the year 1944 and last when Allied forces started their counter attack against the Japanese.
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Rape of Nanjing
The Nanjing massacre or called Rape of Nanjing was the Japanese invasion of China.
This was a brutal and savage act that the Japanese inflicted upon the Chinese more than 200,000 Chinese Men and Then Raped at least 20,000 Chinese Women of any age and some that they killed during or after all of it. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23rd, 1939 The Nazi party and the Soviet Union surprised the world when they started singing the German Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
This pact Declares that both country's will not attack each other for the next 10 years to come and considering with Europe on the Brink of another war Joseph Stalin saw this as a peaceful term with Germany.
Adolf Hitler Only allowed that Pact to happen is so he could take over Poland and not have to fight a war on two fronts. -
Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk took place in France in the small town of Dunkirk.
During this time it was a massive military campaign during WWII.
There were 338,000 British forces that had to evacuate Dunkirk for the safety of their civilians and for the soldiers them selves. -
Western Desert Campaign
This War only lasted for 3 years but this battle took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya. This is when Mussolini sought help from Adolf Hitler and the allied troops were pushed into the deserts of Egypt and Libya so they could siege Tobruk. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler said that this would be a Successful mission.
After Initial Victory's and Quick success as well as Brutal Campaigns Dragged but in the end it all failed do to Strategic Blunders and Harsh Winter Weather. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was caused by the Japanese who flew planes over here to bomb and attack our ships.
The attack started at 8:00am and was a very unfortunate loss of 300 U.S. air planes and 20 badly damaged U.S. ships as well as 2,400 American's killed and 1,000 wounded. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad a very Heart wrenching war between Russians and German Nazis.
This was a Brutal campaign that was one of the largest, longest and bloodiest battles in modern warfare at the time.
There was at least over 2 million deaths in total including 10,000 Russian civilians. -
Tunisia Campaign
The British crossed over the border of Libya right into Tunisia and were planning to attack a German outpost and take control over it so the German's could be pushed back. Only after 6 continues days of blood shed the allied forces persevered and unfortunately losing a fairly good amount of soldiers around 238,500 soldiers 220,000 were British and 18,500 were American and the Germans and Italians lost a total of 900,000 were 620,000 were casualties the rest injured and were war criminals. -
Kamikaze
Kamikaze was mainly used by Japanese Pilots to them it was one way they see it being a Honorable death the would nose dive their planes into ships or in the ground mainly to hopefully inflicted countless damage to their enemies this is what the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
The D-Day mission was called Operation Overlord where 156,000 allied troops which stretched 50 miles long across the beach of Normandy had to face off against German soldiers and their Pill boxes that had a MG-34 mounted up firing at them constantly. -
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Harry Truman's head was quote "A way to save over a Million U.S. Lives".
The first Atomic Bomb was Dropped by a American B-29 Bomber and it was dropped right on the city of Hiroshima on August 8, 1945 and the Second Atomic Bomb was Dropped by another B-29 U.S. Bomber only 3 days after the first one this one was dropped on Nagasaki in total the death total was 120,000 Japanese soldiers and Civilians Majority of Civilians. -
Genocide
There was a plentiful amount of Mass Genocides some during WWII and after WWII some during it was the one we all know The Holocaust and one that happened after was The Rwanda Genocides in 1990 all Genocide is is just a massive amounts of death and murder of a group or set of people