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Japanese Invasion Of China
[>https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htm](http://>https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htm</a>)</a>
China was a divided country. In 1931, Japan, eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and seeing her obvious weakness, invaded and occupied Manchuria. Although the Japanese captured all key Chinese ports.Warfare of this nature led, by war's end, to an estimated 10 to 20 million Chinese civilians deaths. The Japanese seemed unable to force victory, nor the Chinese to evict the Japanese from the territory. -
Rape Of Nanking
http://www.history.com/topics/nanjing-massacre
In the late 1936, a six week period, imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered thousands of people. Between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanking was left in ruin, and would tae decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks. -
German Blitzkrieg (start)
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A German term for "lightning war", blitzkreig is military designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Adolf Hitler’s Reich were not shaped by a doctrine of lightning war. A familiar argument is that Nazi Germany deliberately rearmed in breadth rather than depth, propos -
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Fall Of Paris
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris
By May 1940, Europe had been at war for nine months. Yet Britain and France, despite having declared war on Germany in September 1939 following Hitler’s attack on Poland, had seen little real fighting.The German plan of attack, codenamed Case Yellow. On 5 June, the Germans swung southwards and French resistance finally collapsed. -
Operation Barbarossa
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over 3 million German soldiers and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The Further they went in they more unprepared they were for the harsh weather conditions. Germany left with less men who died. -
Pearl Harbor
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Bataan Death March
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After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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From April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.An estimated 7,000 Jews perished during the uprising, while nearly 50,000 others who survived were sent to extermination or labor camps. -
Operation Gomorrah
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British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. British attacks on Hamburg continued until November of that year. -
D-Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day denamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. By the end of August 1944, the Allies had reached the Seine River, Paris was liberated and the Germans had been removed from France. -
Battle Of The Bulge
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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. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles.A crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, Victorey for usa -
Operation Thunderclap
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‘Operation Thunderclap’ 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. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi failed -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.. American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag -
Battle Of Okinawa
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Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.The commanding generals on both sides died in the course of this battle: American general Simon B. Buckner and Japanese general Ushijima Mitsur -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dachau-liberated Some of the American troops who liberated Dachau were so appalled by conditions at the camp that they machine-gunned at least two groups of captured German guards. It is officially reported that 30 SS guards were killed in this fashion, but conspiracy theorists have alleged that more than 10 times that number were executed by the American liberators. -
VE Day
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin. -
Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
The Atomic Bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by the United States. The bombs were dropped by a B-29 Bomber. The Japanese did not surrender after the first bomb, so 3 days later the United States dropped another bomb. These 2 events were the only use of nuclear weapons in war to this day. -
Potsdam Declaration
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-accepts-potsdam-terms-agrees-to-unconditional-surrender
On this day in 1945, just a day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan submits its acquiescence to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, as President Harry S. Truman orders a halt to atomic bombing. -
VJ Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany,
