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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
On July 7th - July 9th 1937, Japan got into a skirmish with China on the frontier. The fighting led to a whole big conflict, which in turn, lead to the Second-Sino japanese war. Sino-Japanese War -
Rape of Nanking
On December 3rd, 1937, after the japanese took Nanjing, japanese troops infiltrated Nanking. They killed over 300,000 Chinese and raped over 80,000 women. Many chinese were killed in the masscre, it was very devastating for them. Rape of Nanking -
Ribbem/Molotov Pact
<ahref='https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005156' >The german-soviet pact</a>The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact or German-Soviet pact, was a two part agreement for both Ministers to negotiate and agree to. The first part was an economic agreement which was signed on August 18th, 1939 which involved the exchange of manufactured goods. The second part was to sign a 10-year nonagrression act, to not get into a war with each other. The point of the nonagression act is so germany could invade Poland without it being threatening to the russians. -
Invasion of Poland
<ahref='https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070' >Invasion of Poland</a>After coming into power, Adolf Hitler, made one of many foreign policies, one being a nonaggression pact with Poland. Though it was resented by most germans who followed Hitler, until September 1st, 1939 when germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated after several weeks, german units also over took Prussia, Slokovia, and Silesia. With over 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes they used the famous Blitzkrieg. -
Fall of Paris
Fall of paris
The fall of Paris was devastating, originally, they started out on great britains side and while the war had started on september 1939, the invasion of Poland. They called it the "Phoney war", because they never really "fought" until German troops came to France and invaded. -
The German Blitzkrieg
<ahref='https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437' >German Blitzkrieg </a>The German Blitzkrieg or lightning war, lasted from September 1939 to april 1941. During the lightning war, they successfuly and quickly captured Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslovia, and Greece. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
Pearl Habor Attack
At 8a.m. on the 7th of December, 1941, Pearl habor was bombed. Japanese airships continuously bombed and/or suicided into the harbor. The attack lasted for 2 hours, it was devastating, most of the navy, gone in an instant. It was an american tragedy. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the Nazi code name for the invasion of the USSR or Soviet Union. The invasion began June 22nd,1941 and lasted till January 2nd, 1942. Hitler sent many tanks and soldiers across the Russian border. "The invasion covered a front from North Cape to the Black Sea, covering over two thousand miles." - Williamson Muarry -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
"On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons." (The History Place, 1977) -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation GomorrahOperation Gomorrah was a British-American cooperative mission of bombing raids over the city of Hamburg. It was a time when the the whole German population still thought they would win, and Harris, knew that Hamburg was one of the places that would make an impact on the Germans. -
D-Day Normandy Invasion
D-Day Invasion of NormandyOn June 6th, 1944, one of the biggest beach battles happened, the Normandy Invasion or D-Day. When over 160,000 sum troops landed to push back the heavily-forteified Germans sat and waited at the tops of hills in turrets, like a predator waiting for it's prey. Eisenhower said: "we will expect nothing less than victory.'(Gen. D. Eisenhower, 1944) -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the BulgeThe Battle of the Bulge started in Dec. 16th 1944 to Jan. 25th 1945. After D-Day Hitler sent a reverse attack, to use a last attempt to get through the American outposts, paratroopers that were English-speaking Germans penatrated Ally lines. After that they cut contact lines, spread rumors and did many things to set back the American and Ally forces. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation ThunderclapThe Bombing of Dresden lasted from Feb. 13th - Feb. 15th, 1945. The mission was known as operation thunderclap, it commonly was one of the horrific images of convensional air raids that happened over WWII. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo JimaFrom Feb. 19th to Mar. 26, 1945 American soldiers fought in a long battle in Japanese city Iwo Jima. Approxiamately 70,000 american soldiers and 18,000 japanese soldiers took part in the battle and 7,000 of those american soldiers died fighting on the island. Another 20,000 were wounded. -
VE Day
VE DayVE Day was the day that offically marked the end of the war for Europe. It was celebrated on May 8th, 1945. It was a day to be proud of for the Eurropeans, WWII was a long and destruction filled battle. -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of okinawaThe Battle of Okinawa was the last and bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. From the beginning of the battle March 23rd to June 23rd 1945, Okinawa was one of the final ground battles between the Allies and the japanese. Or rather for the Americans and the Japanese. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
The droppin of the atomic bombsThough Europe celebrates the end of the war, it isn't officailly over for the americans. With Japan and their will ot to give up, it seemed like the war was never gonna end. Until, science found a way to end the war. The creation of the atomic bombs had begun. When they were finally finished, on Aug 6th 1945, one of the atomic bombs hit Hiroshima. Then another on Aug 9th 1945 almost immediately after the Hiroshima bomb, another was dropped on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
VJ Day On August 22nd 1945, the press sent out world wide that the japanese had finally surrendered. Then on September 2nd, 1945 a ceremony was held in Tokyo, the war was finally over and everyone live and breathe knowing that the fight is finally over.
