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Who: The Japanese
What: Launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.
Effect: Raped, tortured, and killed people (up to 250,000) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_war.htm -
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Who: The Japanese Imperial Army
What: marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
Effect: The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. -
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Who: The Germans and Soviets.
What: The German-Soviet Pact
Effect: The German's and the Soviet's signed this pact to agree that neither country will attack each other. -
Who: Germany
What: Invaded Poland
Effect: Annexed all of Poland's terroritories.
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LinkA 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. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940.
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Who: The German's
What: Invaded France and took over
Effect: Everybody left with the exception of not that many people. There were few soldiers, citizens, and policemen left after the German's invaded. -
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Who: Adolf Hitler
What: Sent his armies east to invade the Soviet Union, despite the German-Soviet pact.
Effect: He sent 3 armies consisting of 3 million soldiers. During this they took hundreds of thousands of prisoners. -
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Who: The Japanese
What: Attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
Effect: Killed 2,000 American soldiers and wounded 1,000. They obliterated almost 20 American ships, 200 airplanes, and 8 battleships. -
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Who: The Nazi party and the German government.
What: Gathered to determine the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
Effect: They determined that they would be put into concetration camps. The able-bodied Jews would be put to work. -
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Who: The Japanese.
What: U.S. and Filipino troops surrendered.
Effect: Were forced to walk 65 miles to prison camps. -
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Who: The U.S.
What: Was in a Naval battle with the Japanese
Effect: They were able to defeat the Japanese in this Naval battle due to major advances in code breaking (thanks to Turing). -
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Who: British bombers
What: Raid Hamburg,
Effect: Dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs, killing 1,500 Germans. -
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Who: The U.S. and their allies
What: Raided Normandy beaches
Effect: In a week the beaches were fully secure with 4,000 allied troops losing their lives and thousands more wounded or missing. -
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Who: Allies
What: Massive attack on Berlin to cause 220,000 casualties and killing 110,000.
Effect: It was cancelled, thus never following through. -
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Who: Three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) What: To launched the deadliest battle of WWII.
Effect: The U.S. won the battle, losing 100,000 soldiers in the process. -
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Who: Americans
What: Attacked the island of Iwo Jima.
Effect: Attacked the Japanese on the island and won. When they first arrived on the island they were basically sitting ducks to Japanese gunners due to not being able to find cover. -
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Who: U.S. and Japanese soldiers
What: Fought the last and biggest battles of World War II in the Pacific.
Effect: The campaign ended 82 days in. Japan had 77,000+ casualties and we (the U.S. and our allies) had 65,000+ casualties (with 14,000 soldiers being killed. -
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Who: The German's
What: Finally gave up the war and admitted defeat.
Effect: The German's lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
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Who: The U.S.
What: Dropped the world's first atom bomb over Hiroshima.
Effect: 140,000 (80k of which were killed on site) were killed and 35,000 suffered injuries (radiation poisoning, etc...) -
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Who: The Japanese
What: Admitted defeat to the Allies.
Effect: The U.S. won the war, defeating the German's and the Japanese.
