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Japanese army invades China because Japan wanted to be an imperial power. https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-did-japan-invade-china-1937-an-what-was-marco-315915
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Germany invaded Poland because of the German-Soviet Pact, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between two powers. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
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A German word meaning “lightning war” which was a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
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Hitler believed that if he invaded the Soviet Union, the German army would be seen as the finest army in the 20th Century. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
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Japan launches a surprise attack on the US because the US cut off the oil supply to Japan needed to go to war with China. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gather at a villa on the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477
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British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany because Britain had suffered in July the same raid that killed 167 civilians. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied Armies in Northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp
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The Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May 1940. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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The proposal was to bomb the Eastern cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.
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The American soldiers made their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
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Allied forces invaded the island of Okinawa and engaged the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War
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To mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War 2 of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this devastation led to Japan’s unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War 2
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It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War 2
