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Japanese invasion of china (1937)
The First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) between China (the Qing Dynasty) and Japan (the Empire of Japan), primarily over control of Korea
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) between China (Republic of China) and Japan (the Empire of Japan), from 1941 on as part of World War II -
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Rape of Nanking
was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China -
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German Blitzkerig
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Germany invades Poland
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ribbentrop-molotov pact
Officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[a] was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow on 23 August 1939 -
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Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,[9] the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters,[10][11] and Operation Z during planning,[12] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States -
Wannsee Confrence
A meeting of senior officials of nazi Germany held in the berlin suburb of wannsee -
Bataan Death March
Was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
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Battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
operation gomorrah
Bombing of Hamburg during WWII, includes numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/ nuisance raids. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the allied invasion of normandy in operation overlord during WWII -
Operation thunderclap
was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work.[ -
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Battle of the bulge
The battle of the bulge was a major German offensive campaign lauched thru the densed forested Ardennes region of wallonia in Belgium, france , luxembourg on the western front towards the end of WWII in Europe -
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Battle of iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II -
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Battle of okinawa
was the series of battles fought in the ryukyu islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II -
V-E day
was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.