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japanese invasion of china
Japan's invasion of China was due essentially to Japan's desire to be an imperial power. -
germany invasion of poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
german blitzkreig
It was an innovative military technique first used by the Germans in World War II.Hitler spent many years in World War One fighting a stationary war with neither side making progress for months on end.The main effect of Blitzkrieg was how it shortened battle time and conserved artillery, it also saved lives. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Hitler instructed his armies eastward in a huge invasion on the Soviet Union. The attack was just an expression of Hitler’s twisted mind, reflecting the his ambition and cruelty of Nazi ideas. Barbarossa failed, and Germany faced a two-front war that it could not win. -
pearl harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter jets attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor was planned to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and it would help Japan get access to precious resources. Many American ships and planes were destroyed. After the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Wansee Conference
The Conference was a meeting of high ranked officials from Nazi Germany, They discussed the killing of the Jews. The conference informed other interested agencies related to the execution of the Final Solution. Place Where Final solution was formally revealed to non-Nazi leaders who would help arrange for Jews to be transported to camps. -
Japanese internment
The Day of Remembrance (DOR) is a day commemorating the Japanese American internment during World War II. Events in numerous U.S. states are held on or near February 19, the day in 1942 that Executive Order 9066 was signed, requiring internment of all Americans of Japanese ancestry. -
battle of stalingrad
was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. ended february 2 1943 -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
150,000 Allied soldiers invaded a handful of beaches along the coast of Normandy, France.To end WWII and the Nazi domination of Europe.The beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler tried to split the Allied armies in Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg attack through the Ardennes to Antwerp.Attempted to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.Hitler’s last major offensive in the war. Germany suffered much more loss than Americans. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. The battle helped end tyhe war and led up to the Allied victory later that year when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Battle of Okinawa
A series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific. The Japanese used their tactics of suicide bombers and kamikazes to try and take out the U.S. Pacific fleet. -
VE Day
It mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. VE-Day officially marked the end of WWII in Eurpoe. VE-Dy braught peace to The country of Europe as its soldiers all layed down their guns and celebrated the end of the War for their country. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. With Japan in an extremely weak position, the United States used the bomb rather than invade the inland to bring the War to an end. Following the bombing, Japan not only surrendered, but suffered massive physical, mental, and psychiological damage. -
VJ Day
Day when Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. The Japanese surrendered because of all of the damage that it suffered after the two American Atomic bombs were dropped on them.An overwhelming sense of relief covered the Americans as the Japanese surrendered, Fascism had been defeated (according to the american people).