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The Japanese turn back a Chinese counter-offensive; the Blitzkrieg Germany invasion of France. the concentration of offensive weapons tanks, planes, and artillery along a narrow front. “lightning war” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces.(NOTES) and http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
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The command considered that no valuable strategic result justified the sacrifice of Paris." From the sea to the Maginot Line the Allies are resisting strongly on a new line behind Paris.Fall Gelb and is when the armored units of Germany cut off allied units which had advanced into the country of Belgium at the Ardennes.
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A military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force.They successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force
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The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It was a law passed by Congress on March 11, 1941. It provided that the president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted U.S. defense
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The operation Barbarossa code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. The crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources.
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Japanese were expanding all over Asia. Japan was trying to establish an Asian empire and they seen that the U.S stood in its way. Japan also got upset because the U.S didn't want to give japan anymore oil
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President FDR signed a act in which US declared war on japan for the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. Germany already controlled much of Europe, as well as much of the Atlantic Ocean. Roosevelt considered this a direct threat. And he worried about possible German intervention in Latin America. Germany had many scientists,engineers and was an advanced industrial nation.
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The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando.Most of these soldiers were made to march to prison camps located far away.
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The Battle of The Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. A war in which it was mainly fought with aircraft in the US destroyed japan's and it ended the Threat of Further Japanese invasion in the pacific.
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The Battle of Stalingrad major confrontation of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.The Germans inside the pocket retreated from the suburbs of Stalingrad to the city itself.
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A Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during WWII.he Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants.Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps
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Resistance groups in German-occupied countries across the continent burned with impatience. In many cases they wanted to take liberation through into revolution and settle accounts.
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The battle of the Bulge was one of the largest battle fought on the western front in Europe during the WWII. One of the largest battles that ever fought by the United States.
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. Also left behind were victims. Thousands of clothes,shoes and items of there belonging.
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The United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII.They fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces.
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The United States send two bombs a couple years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. United States used two superpower atomic bombs on japan that made them surrender.
http://www.cnduk.org/campaigns/global-abolition/hiroshima-a-nagasaki
