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Japanese Invasion of China
Japan invaded china because they were eager for the vast natural resources to be found in china and by seeing her obvious weakness they took the oppertunity and invaded china -
Rape of Nanking
In 1937 over a period of six weeks, imperial Japanese forces murdered over thousands of people including soldiers and civilians. Between 20,000 to 80,000 women where sexually assulted. Nanking was left in ruins and was said that it would take decades for the citizens to recover from such savage attack from the Japanes and yet there has not been any justice served for those. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland all along its 1,750 miles border, simultaneously, they boomed Polish aircraft, and the naval forces in the Baltic sea. France and Britan were not convinced by Hitler when he claimed it was a defensive action. On September 3, war was declared on Germany. -
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German Blitzkerieg
Blitzkerieg (lighting war) was a military tactic designed and used to disorganize the enemy forces with the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The execution resulted successful they invaded Poland in 1939 before they invaded Belgium -
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Fall of Paris
Paris once woke up to a voice over a loudspeaker announcing a curfew was being imposed, soon after German troops entered and occuped Paris. The prime minister tried to convinced the government to no surrender so easily because the US would come to their aid -
Operation Barbarossa
code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. Although it was not a successful operation It was one of the most bloodiest battles in history. Due to this operation the Nazi German fought a two-front war they were not able to win -
Pearl Harbor
Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbor located by Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack only lasted to lasted two hours but was every devastating. More then 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died. 1,000 more were wounded. After that day President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked to declare war on Japan. Days later Japans allies declared war on the United States. Which is when America finally decided to join World War II -
Battle of midway
Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack the US defeated Japan in one of the most overriding battles. All thanks to major advances of code breaking the US was able to find out what Japan's attack plan was and counter Japans plan to ambush the remaining aircraft carriers of the US. -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day British bombers raid Hamburg, by night and Americans bombed it by day. This came to be know as the "Blitz Week". Britain suffered the death of 167 civilians so now the tables have turned the British dropped 2,300 tons of explosives on Hamburg resulting in more then 1,500 German civilians were killed in the British bombing raid. That was the priced paid by the Nazi's for bombing the British. -
Operation Thunderclap
This had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. (Note: couldn't find a date because the operation never happened) -
D-day (Normandy Invasion)
It was one of the largest amphibious military assault in history.With about 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces that landed on five beaches that were heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
VE Day
Known as "Victory Day" was the public holiday celebrated to mark the acceptance of the Nazi German surrender of World War II. This marked the ending of fighting aginst Hitler and his armed forces. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany. It was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.Various gruesome proposals were discussed, including mass sterilization and deportation to the island of Madagascar. Various gruesome proposals were discussed, including mass sterilization and deportation to the island of Madagascar. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
United states become the very first nation to use and atomic weaponry during a wartime. With the atomic bomb dropping that marked the ending of World War II. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. After that they were given three days to surrender. Then a seconded bomb was drop on Nagasaki, after they surrendered. -
VJ Day
VJ Day is the day Japans surrender was announced to the world. Once it was announced there were celebration sparking spontaneously around the world. On September 2, 1945 was whem the formal surrender ceremony was held at Tokyo Board on the USS missouri. September 2 was declared as the VJ Day -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II -
Battle of Okinawa
Codenamed operation Iceberg it was a series of wars fought on the Japanese Ryukyu island.It included one of the biggest amphibious assault. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers where the very first to liberate concentration camps. On July 23, 1944 they entered Majdank camp in Poland and liberated the prisoners and other camps in the area. On January 27, 1945, the camp of Auschwitz was liberated as well where they found thousands of sick and exhausted prisoners even children. -
Bataan Death March
The Death march was where approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65-miles to there own death or death camps in server conotions and treatment. There were only three troops who escaped from the death march and made it back to the US to notify them of what was going on.