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Over a period of six weeks Imperial Japanese Army Forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Chinese city of Nanking. http://www.history.com/topics/nanjing-massacre
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Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons along a narrow front.
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Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers then Germany to attacked Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939,
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German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.German forces occupied Paris after a chaotic period of flight of the French government that led to a collapse of the French army.
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Code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force with great loss of American lives and ships.
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The Japanese demanded permission to enter Chinese territory to recover a missing soldier. They Chinese refused. So the Japanese said they would declare war if they didn't let them in and the Chinese still refused.So the war began. https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Sino-Japanese-War
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75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps after the U.s. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon.
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The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre.
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There was one month of fighting when the Germans decided to blow up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw to signaling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto.
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When the British invaded Italy.
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.
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The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war.it was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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The day to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.
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It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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Order issued by the United States, Great Britain, and China calling for the unconditional surrender of Japan.
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when the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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The day that the Japanese surrendered and ended the WW2.
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The day the battle of Normandy began on June 6, 1944
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It was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties than their Japanese counterparts.