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Japanese Invasion of China
Ends September 9th 1945, The war was a result of a decade long Japanese imperialists policy. China fought Japan with some economic help from Germnay. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war would merge into the greater conflict of the World War. History.com -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
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Germany Invasion of Poland
Ends on Oct 6th, the German offense in the west began on sept 1st, and was followed by the soviet offense in the East. Adolf Hitler knew that this conquest was neautralizing Poland in the East. The soviets were preparing a battle against Britain and France. History.com
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German Blitzkrieg
German forces attacked Poland on land and from the air. Hitler led this revolt hoping to gain back land and rule Poland. This war established the Blitzkrieg tactic which was using different sources of power such as fire power and air. This revolutionized war tactics.
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Operation Barbarossa
One of the bloodiest battles in history, this battle was the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a threat possessing immensely superior resources. History.com -
Pearl Harbor
On the day of Pearl Harbor, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The battle was only 2 hours long but the Japanese managed to devistate the United States forces. History.com -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of the Nazi Party and German government officials, in a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. This meeting was held to answer the final question about what should be done about the killing of the Jews. History.com -
Bataan Death March
The death march was approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan, forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps in San Fernando. The men were divided into groups of approximately 100, it is believed that thousands of troops died because of the brutality of their captors. History.com -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles known as the Battle of Midway. The United States was able to counter Japan’s planned ambush of its remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. History.com
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Battle of Stalingrad
Ending Feb. 2nd, was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War. This battle stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union. It was a bloody battle with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. History.com -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own. British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. British attacks on Hamburg continued until November of that year. History.com -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the Western Allies invaded France’s Normandy coast. Rommel had established many defenses that included concrete bunkers, mines, and a half-million obstacles. Five Allied divisions came ashore along 50 miles of coastline. By the end, over 75,000 British/Canadian troops and more than 57,000 Americans held the beaches. History.com -
Battle of the Bulge
In the Ardennes Forest, the germans launched a surprise attack on the morning of December 16 against a lightly defended portion of the American line. Within three days they had destroyed the Americans 28th and 106th divisions, but those units had delayed the advance long enough to upset the Germans and allow Eisenhower time to order other units forward. History.com -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was a code name for a cancelled operation. The operation was to bomb the eastermost cities of Germany. History.com -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was an island where the US navy landed and took over. The island was was defended by rougly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Afteer naval and air bombardmnet the Japanese defence went inward which was their key mistake. It took a month of fighting for the Marines to wipe out the Japanese. History.com -
Potsdam Declaration
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa. This battle was the largest amphibious landing in WW2 and also resulted in the largest casualties. History.com -
Ve Day
Ve day was a public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the acceptance of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. History.com -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb (little boy) over the city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people with many deaths after due to effects of the bomb. On August 9th another bomb (fat man) was dropped ober the city of Nagasaki. This led to Japanese surrender. History.com -
VJ Day
VJ day or Victory Over Japan Day is the day that the news of the surrender was announced to the world. This was the official ending of WW2. History.com
