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Japan was eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and saw their obvious weakness, they invaded and attacked Manchuria.
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An episode during the second sino-Japanese war which the Japanese troops raped and mass murdered civilians.
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Treaty of non aggression between Germany and Soviet Union.
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The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Germany had more than 2000 tanks and 1000 planes.
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The Blitzkrieg was a new military tactic and required the concentration of offensive weapons. Was very successful at first.
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This was the German invasion of France during WWII.
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Ws the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Ws a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
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InBerlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons.
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Surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese. People were forced to March 65 miles to prison camps.
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This was an act of Jewish resistance that arose in the Warsaw Ghetto. They opposed the final effort of the Nazis to transport them to death camps.
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British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.”
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.
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Hitler attempted to split up the allied armies in Northwest Europe by a surprise blitzkrieg thrust.
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The idea was to bomb the eastern cities of Germany to disrupt the transport of infrastructure behind what was becoming the eastern front.
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A battle in which the U.S marines landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Series of battles fought centered on the island of Okinawa. The allies wanted to use the island as a base for operations.
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Signifies the end of WWII and an allied victory.
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The U.S dropped nuclear weapons on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The day Japan ceased fighting in WWII.
