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To break the Chinese spirits the Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered the city of Nanking to be destroyed. This event was known as the "rape of Nanking the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process. -
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. -
The Battle of Britain was an air battle where the Royal Fleet of the UK defended Europe against a full on assault of the Nazi Germany Air fleet. -
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war, who were forced to march until they died. -
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. -
The Battle of Midway was a battle between the US navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
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The Battle of the Bulge was so important because it was Hitlers last standoff against the US in WW2. In the Ardness region of Belgium the US and Hitler fought a trench fight for 6 long weeks just for US to come out as the victor. -
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the jewish prisoners and slaves and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there -
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