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Japanese invasion of China
On July 7, 1937 a clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near peiping in north China. In the 1930s the Chinese suffered continued territorial encroachment from the Japanese, using their manchurian base.the whole north of the country was taken over.the official strategy of the KMT was to secure control of China by defeating her internal enemies first. In 1937 skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops on the frontier led to what became known as the Marco Polo bridge incident. -
-Germany's invasion of Poland (1939)
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory.the German Luftwaffe bombed polish airfields, and German warships and u boats attacked polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.nazi leader Adolf hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action.to hitler the conquest of Poland would bring lebensraum. -
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-German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
Germany's blitzkrieg tactics overwhelmed Poland in September 1939.then after a pause, crushed Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries in April may 1940, and finally France in June 1940.blitzkrieg first appeared in the form of elite infinity units known as “sturmtruppen”, or storm troops, designed to rapidly overrun enemy positions using momentum and speed. -
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Operation Barbarossa was the name given to the nazi germany’s invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941.barbarossa the largest military attack of World War Two and was having appalling consequences for the Russian people.operation Barbarossa was based on a massive based on blitzkrieg. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-and-eastern-europe/operation-barbarossa/
