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Japanese invasion of China
Around 84 years ago today the Japanese Imperial army began its attack over the capital of china, Nanjing. They murdered civilians, as well as Chinese soldiers, and raped there women. The Japanese army raided China because they wanted raw minerals to fuel there growing country as well as whatever they can get there hands on and land mass. This impacted China severely because there city's were destroyed and there people were killed they still are not on good terms till this day. -
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German Blitzkrieg
Around 84 years ago today the Japanese Imperial army began its attack over the capital of china, Nanjing. They murdered civilians, as well as Chinese soldiers, and raped there women. The Japanese army raided China because they wanted raw minerals to fuel there growing country as well as whatever they can get there hands on and land mass. This impacted China severely because there city's were destroyed and there people were killed they still are not on good terms till this day. -
Fall of Paris
Paris had fallen to Nazi Germany about one month after they had stormed France. Eight days later France had signed an armistice with Germany to stop fighting. Eventually Canadian troops had arrived to help liberate the country once again. Germany surrender and they successfully took back Paris. This impacted France severally and it took them many moons to rebuild there crowned jewel. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was a German planned attack on the Soviet Union. Hitler had planned this attack to be a quick and easy victory, Which it was at first but after time fighting the Soviet resistance the Soviet winter hit and the Germans were not ready for it. They had not planned for this and did not bring winter clothing, there tanks froze causing them to with draw from the attack. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S naval base right outside of Honolulu, Hawaii that held a lot of Americas vessels and planes. Sunday morning more then 100 Japanese fighter planes descended over the base and opened fire destroying 20 naval vessels including 8 battle ships as well as 300 airplanes. More then 1000 were injured and more then 2500 were pronounced dead including some civilians. The day after the attack President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting at a villa in the Berlin suburbs Wannsee. At this meeting many German Nazi leaders came together to answer the final solution to the Jewish question. The answer was that all Jews in German occupied Europe were to be found and shipped to Poland were they are split up and transferred to concentration camps were they are worked to death or killed in Gas chambers. -
Allied invasion of Italy
In Casablanca, Morocco, on January, 1943 Allied leaders decided to use their massive military resources in the Mediterranean to launch an attack on Italy. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's objective were to remove Italy from WW2, secure the Mediterranean Sea and force Germany to pull there troops from the Russian front and other German divisions from northern France. The Allies could then execute their cross-channel landing at Normandy, France. -
Operation Gomorrah
The Battle of Hamburg, code named Operation Gomorrah was a campaign of air raids on Germany's second largest city Hamburg. Which began on July 24, 1943 and lasted for 8 days. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. at the end of the bombing over 9000 tones of incendiary bombs were dropped killing over 30000 people and destroying more then 230 000 buildings were destroyed. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
During WW2 the Battle of Normandy, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Code named Operation Overlord or D-Day, the battle began on June 6, 1944, when 156 000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five different beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, during WW2, an American bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion had immediately killed an estimated 80000 people. more then 10000 would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender because of this new powerful bomb. -
Liberation of concentration camps
April 4, 1945 The first concentration camp by the name of Ohrdruf was liberated by US troops which was a sub camp of the Buchenwald camp. The U.S also liberated Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen. The Soviet-Union were the ones to shut down Auschwitz which was the largest killing center and concentration complex. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany murdered more then 6 000 000 Jews across German occupied Europe, around two thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front. It was launched through the forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. The offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy the four Allied forces and cause the Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers favor. The Battle of the Bulge remains one of the most important battles of WW2. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on the soon to be captured island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields the south and central field. The Japanese combat deaths was three times the number of American deaths. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of WW2 of Germany's surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, May 8 1945, marking the end of the war in Europe. Several countries observe public holidays on the day each year, also called Victory Over Fascism Day, Liberation Day or Victory Day. In the UK it is often abbreviated to VE Day, or V-E Day. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945 it was said that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, effectively ending WW2. Since then, both August 14 and 15 have been known as Victory over Japan Day or just VJ Day. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany. -
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/topic/blitzkrieg
https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Sino-Japanese-War
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-wannsee-conference
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-invade-italian-mainland
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Sources
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/normandy-invasion
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima
https://www.history.com/news/dachau-concentration-camp-liberation
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
https://nationaltoday.com/vj-day/