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Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese said that they were fired on by the Chinese troops at the marco polo bridge near Beijing. The Japanses used this as an excuse to launch a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. within 5 months 1 millions chinese were under japenese control. The war against China lead to 4 million Chinese Casualties with 60 million homeless. -
Germany Blizkreig
Blitzkreig means "lightning war" in German. The germans first started out the Blitzkreig against Poland in 1939 -
Germany Invasion of Poland
Poland became allies with France and Britian. Hitler responded by making a pact with the soviet union in the summer on 1939. The German-Soviet pact which stated that poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled German to attack without fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1st, Germany invaded Poland. The polish army was defeated within weeks, -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941 Hitler launched his armies into a massive invasion of the soviet union. Barbarossa was the curical turning point in WWII for its failure forced Nazi Germany to figth a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensly superior resources. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japenese fighters planes attacked the American naval base in Honolulu Hawaii. It lasted about 2 hours and the Japanese managed to destroy 20 American Naval vessels and almost 200 airplanes. 2,000 Ameican soldiers and sailors died and 1,000 were wounded.The nexy day FDR asked congress to delcare war on Japan. Three days later, Japan allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the US and America had finally joined WWII -
Wannsee Confernce
Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second command of the SS convened the wannsee conference with 15 top nazis to coordinate the final solution in which nazis would attempt to exterminate the enitre jewish population of Europe. An estimate of 11 million people. -
Kasserine Pass
African Korps launched an offensive against an allie defensive line. The Kasserine Pass was the site of the Untied States first major battle defeat -
Operation Gomorrah
on this day, bombers riad hamburg, germany, by night in operation gomorrah while americans bomb it by day it its own "blitz week". -
DDay
156000 Americans, British, and Canadain forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50 mile strech of the coast of France Normandy region. By late august 1944 all of northern france had been liberated, and by the following spring the allies had deafted the Germans . -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler tired to split the allie armies in northwest europe by means of surprise blitzkreig thrust through the ardennes to antwerp. American forces fought desperate battles to stem german advances. as germans tried to go deeper the allie lines took an apperance of a large bulge.
