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the Japanese invade China
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The massacre and mass rape that happened in the city of Nanjing happened on this day, it is spelled Nanking due to the way it is pronounced.
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the day Hitler's army invaded poland.
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the day Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The day Pearl Harbor was attacked, marking America's entrance into the war.
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The Japanese captured approximately 75000 troops due to the troops starving on the Bataan peninsula. The troops were then taken to Prisoner Of War camps. Those too weak to walk were bayoneted, and thousands more died of disease and starvation.
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the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started because German soldiers and police invaded the Warsaw ghetto to kill it's remaining Jewish inhabitants.
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the day D-Day happened.
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Germans, impersonating US soldiers with stolen equipment, sabotage the US communications, and using the Ardennes Forest as cover, 250000 German soldiers fought 80000 US soldiers for three weeks.
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the soviets were the first to liberate concentration camps, as of this day
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roughly 23000 Japanese soldiers fought and lost this battle at fort iwo jima
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the fort was needed for a successful Japanese invasion. many of the Japanese soldiers thought that Americans took no prisoners and chose suicide over surrender.
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this day marks victory in Europe over the Nazi war machine.
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the day the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima.
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The day Japan formally surrendered.
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The day the last axis power surrendered.