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Japanese Invasion of China
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war was the result of a decades long Japanese imperialist policy aimed at expanding its influence politically and military in order to secure access to raw material reserves and other economic resources in the area.
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Germany Invasion of Poland
Also known as the 1939 Defensive war of Poland. Germany had substantial numeric advatage over poland and had developed a significant military before the conflict.
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Blitskrieg
Blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for it to respond to the continuosly changing front and defeaing in a decisive battle of annihilation.
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The Fall of Paris
The Fall of Paris was a German invasion of France and the low countries during the second World War. German armour outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France with German forces on June 14th, this caused a chaotic period of flight for the French government and ended organized French military resistance. On June 22nd an armistice was signed between France and Germany, which resulted in a division of France, where Germany would occupy the north and west.
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Operation Barbarossa
It was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the soviet Union during WW2 which began on June 22, 1941. The operation was griven byby Adlof Hitler's ideological desire to conquer the Soviet territories as outlined in his 1925 Mein Kampf ("my struggle")
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Pearl Harbor
Was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. The attack led to the beginning of WW2. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor -
Wannasee Confrence
Was a meeting of Senior officials of Nazi Germany,held in the Berlin suburb of Wannasee. The purpose of the confrence, called by director of the Reich Main Security office, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final final solution to the Jewish question. Legalized discrimination against jews began immediately after the Nazi seizure of power on January 30, 1933.
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Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death Marchthe Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer from saisaih pt and mariveles to camp O' Donnell by the imperial japanese army, 80,000 filipino and american prisoners of war which began April 9, 1942, after the 3 month battle of Bataan in the philipines.around 2500-10000 filipino and 100-650 american prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination.the 60 mile march contained occasional severe physical abuse. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation GomorrahOn this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.”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. The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destruc -
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to camps. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
allied invation of italythe allied invasion of italy was the allied amphibious landing on mainland italy on the 3rd of september 1943 during the beginning of the italian campaign of WW2. the operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexanderś 15th Army Group and followed the succesful invasion of sicily. the main force for the invasion landed around Salerno on the 9th of september on the western coast in operation Avalanche while two supporting groups were in Calabria and Taranto. -
D-Day
D-Day Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation ThunderclapOperation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. 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. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work. it was reconcidered in 1945 but was rejected once again as impractical. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the BulgeThe 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. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Liberation of the Concentration CampsThe first concentration camp the Soviet troops liberated was Auschwitz. Just prior, the Nazis had forced the majority of the prisoners to march westward in "death marches", leaving the Soviets to find only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive. In the following months, they liberated many camps in the Baltic states and in Poland. In mid-April, British forces liberated the camp Bergen-Belsen. There, 60,000 odd prisoners were found in critical condition because of a typhus epidemic. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima America wanted a place near the Japanese coast to land their planes, and to serve as a base for escort fighters. On Feb. 19, 1945, they attacked Iwo Jima through 3 marine divisions. Though the Japanese employed new defense tactics and fought through a network of caves and underground instillations, it was an American victory, taking 1,083 prisoners and wiping out the rest of the Japanese militia. -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa In the last and biggest battle of the Pacific islands, the US attacked Okinawa in hopes of gaining possession of the island to create a base large enough to invade the Japanese home islands. The Japanese employed kamikaze air and sea attack suicide missions, and Okinawa soon turned into a mass bloodletting, among military and civilians alike. Though the Japanese conserved their strength for defense rather than attacks, they ended the 82 day war with 120,000 lives lost, while America had 12,500. -
VE Day
VE Day VE Day is the day that German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. More than 13,000 British prisoners of war were released and sent back to Great Britain. When the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, about 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the west, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
Dropping of the atomic bombs The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five ton atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. The blast, which was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, reduced four square miles of the city to ruins, killing 80,000 people instantly. In the following weeks, tens of thousands more people died from wounds and radiation poisoning. Three days after the first bomb was dropped, a second one was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan surrendered, and the war officially ended. -
VJ Day
VJ DayVJ Day was the day that Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. On September 2, General Douglas MacArthur, the Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army Yoshijiro Umezu signed the official Japanese surrender on the US Navy battleship Missouri, officially ending World War II.
