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Japanese invasion of China
In 1937 some skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops happened on the frontier this was known as Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Because of that this spared up a full blown conflict between the two. The war began on July. 7 this war was the biggest Asian war in the twentieth century and was the reason for more than 50 percent of deaths in the Pacific War. Another cause was the conflict between Chinese and Japanese troops for control of Chinese mainland. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking massacre or known as rape of Nanking. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937 the same day the Japanese captured the area. During this period soldiers of Japan army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and that's not all also disarmed combatants and perpetrated widespread rape and looting to the Chinese. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
German-Soviet Nonaggression PactThe pact remained in force until the German government broke it by launching an attack on the Soviet positions in eastern Poland on 22 June 1941 contrary to the supplementary protocol of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty dictating the new European spheres of interest. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Invasion of PolandGermany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and destroyed the Polish army within weeks of the invasion. The German army used over 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes to invade Poland. The strategy they used was an encirclement to surround the army and it was successful. -
German Blitzkrieg
BlitzkriegIt's a German term for a lightning war, it's used to disorganize the opposing army and then use concentrated fire power to destroy the target. This strategy saves lives and uses less artillery for battle. -
Fall of paris
Germans enter ParisOn this day germans entered france and war broke out in france.Germans announced in loud speakers saying that their was a curfew at 8pm that evening when germans entered france.British Prime minister churchill told fance to hold on not to sue for peace and that America would enter the war. -
Operation Barbosa
Operation BarbosaThere was over 3 million German soldiers marching eastward to the Soviet territory, because they were looking to wipe them out. It covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea. Barbosa was a crucial turning point in World War 2. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl HarborOn December 7, 1941 the Japenese bombers started to bomb Pearl Harbor and destroyed most of the battleships in the bay. It was a devastating attack that brought the United States into World War 2. -
Bataan Death March
This was a march with war and 60,000-80,000 Filipnos which began April 9, 1942. This was after the three mouth battle of Bataan. And 2,000- 10,000 Filiponos and 100 -650 Amercans would die before they even reached their destination. People who survied the march would be loaded up in a train in tooked to camp o'Donnell in capas. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of MidwayThis battle took place 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they defeated Japan in one of the decisive naval battles of World War 2. This was an important change for the battle of pacific. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
WWIIBetween July 22 and September 12, 1942 the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 jews in the warsaw uprising. German authorities granted 35,000 jews to stay in the ghettos while 20,000 stayed and hide in the ghettos. -
Tehran conference
Tehran conference was a strategy metting of Joseph Stalin, Fanklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill from November 28 to the frist of December 1943. It was held at the soviet union embassy. Also was the first WWII coferece called the big three. the main reason for this was to join allies to hold a front on the Nazi army. -
D-Day
Americans landed on Normandy on tuesday, 6 june 1994 this was the largest seaborne invasion in history. this whole battle was so we could have control of the western front. It was the first infantry division wade ashore in WWII. More than 160,000 Americans, British and canadian troops were sent to Normandy. There were five sectors this was Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the leader of this battle and succeeded to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops. After the si -
Liberation Of Concentration
LiberationSoviet soliders were the first liberate concentratiojn camps prisions in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1945, they entered the Madjdank camp camp in poland, and landed in camps over seas. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This battle was on February, 19 through March, 26 1945 this was a huge battle. The U.S Marines landed and after a few day captured the island. The Island was heavily defended by the japanese army in a sense network of bunkers and underground tunnels. America was trying to take control of the three main airfields on the island. This battle was one of the most bloodiest war in the pacific of world war II. 250 men went up the hill and only 27 lived to walk back down again. -
VE day
Victory in EuropeVE day is victory in Europe day the day is publicly celebrated on may 8th to mark the former acceptance of the alliesof WWII of the Nazi Germans unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Also Great Britian and The United States celebrate this holiday. -
Postdam Conference
The postdam conference was where the big 3 leaders met in 1945. The big 3 leaders were Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Churchill.They Negotiated terms for the end of WWII. -
Dropping the Atomic Bombs
This Day in HistoryThe USA and the UK made an agreement that the US could drop 2 atomic bombs on Japan to end the war. The agreement was called the Quebec agreement. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 1945 which devestated japan but they didnt surreneder. Just 3 days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and the war was over soon after Japan surrenders. -
VJ Day
VJ DayIt is also called Victory over Japan Daywhich is when Japan had surrendered. August !4th Japan had surrendered to the world. -
Battle of the Bulge
On December, 16 1945 german army launched a counteroffensive to cut through Americans allied forces to split us up and surround our infantry. Because Adolf Hitler to turn the tide. more than 200,000 German troops, and almost 1,000 tanks was Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that he had begun. After one hard day of fighting the germans finally broke through Americans front.
