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The Japanese killed 150,00o war prisoners, massacred 50,000 male civilians, and raped 20,000 woman and girls. This happened to break the spirit of the Chinese resistance and cause china fall. -
Japan needed raw materials and invaded china. This caused the capital in nanking to fall, and started the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
This was created because of Prussia's relatively limited economic resources. This was a strategy Germany used to try and avoid a long war. This helped Germany sweep through Citys and gain a quick victory with loss of fewer men.
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This was a pact between Germany and the soviet union. The pact permitted Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to disturb eastern Europe. Despite this, Hitler later invaded the soviet union. -
Paris fell to Nazi Germany. Paris fell because Germany had superior communications and their style of warfare was aided. This resulted in the capture and subjugation and three other countries. -
This was the invasion of the soviet union and was the largest land offensive in human history. This happened because Hitler wanted to have more success like the one in blitzkrieg. This cased Germany to suffer many casualties and millions of soviet union soldiers were captured. -
This was a surprise military attack when the Japanese air force bombed the US naval base at Pearl harbor. Japan did this to prevent the US from interfering with planned military actions. This resulted in 2,403 US personnel being killed, and 8 battleships being destroyed. -
This was a meeting of Nazi officials to plan the final solution. The plan was to round up jews in Europe and putting them into labour gangs. The Wannsee Conference leads to the holocaust. -
This was an allied invasion of Normandy that delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. This led to the liberation of France and denied Germany to use its manpower and resources.
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This was a celebration of Germany surrendering its military forces. This day marks the end of WWII in Europe. -
This was a military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan. The US demanded that Iwo Jima should be captured and the marines invaded. After this, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site and 24,000 lives of airmen were saved. -
VJ day stands for victory over japan day. This day marks the end of WWII and the celebrating of people around the world. -
The US detonated two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. They did this to get Japan to surrender and end WWII. The Bombs killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
Liberation of concentration camps revealed the harsh conditions of them. Concentration camps were said to be ''the final solution'' and they were liberated by the Red Army. -
This was the last German offense on the western front. Germany suffered many losses, and this prevented them from advancing. This resulted in the allies winning.