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Japanese invasion of china
Japan captured all of china's key ports and industries. China kept resisting japan. Both sides used scorched tactic. Massacres were common, Japan killed an estimated 300,000 people and raped 80,000 women. The attack came to a stalemate Japan couldnt force victory nor China push them back. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_war.htm -
Ribbentrop Pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a pact together. in this pact Germany gave Russia control of some land. they wouldn't attact each other.Germany would gain control over Lithuania and Danzig. Russia would have control over Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005156 -
German Blitzkreig
on September 1st 1939 Hitler started blitzkrieg against poland the Germans used heavy bombing and artillery strikes against poland destroying rail roads ammo dumps and comunication lines to soften up the resistance so that the ifantry invasion would go smoothly. -
Germans invasion of Poland
The conquest of Poland would bring living space for the German people. According to his plan, the “racially superior” Germans would colonize the territory and the native Slavs would be enslaved. German expansion had begun in 1938 with the annexation of Austria and then continued with the occupation of the Sudetenland and then all of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Both had been accomplished without igniting hostilities with the major powers, and Hitler hoped that his invasion of Poland would likewise be -
fall of paris
the prime minister of France had told winston churchill that he would have to surrender. and when the nazis showed up many parisians had already fled. -
Operation Barbrossa
3 million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory, the invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea a distance of two thousand miles. By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee. In training, doctrine, and fighting ability, It represented the world’s finest army to fight in the twentieth century. www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including 8 battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
wansee conference
Nazis talked about the Final soultion to there jew problem. They talked about exterminating the Jewish people. Nazis set up camps to kill the Jews. They were set on having there perfect race. Hitler was all for this idea. www.holocaust-history.org/piper/piper-english.shtml -
Bataan Death March
American war prisinors where maded to walk a 65 mile journey through intense heat. They where treated terriably by the Japanese. Thousands died durring the march. The march took around five days to compleate. The most cause of death was brutal treatment. www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march -
battle of Midway
6 months after pearl harbor the japanesse were out to destroy any aircraft cariier that had escaped destruction in pearl habor. the plan was that they would lure the US carriers out and destroy them but the Americans cracked japanese code and managed to launch a surprise attack the Us lost 147 planes and 300 sailors and the japanese lost 322 planes and 6 shipshttp://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
battle of Stalingrad
earlier in 1941 Hiler had broken his pact with Stalin and attacked the Soviet Union ,and soon enough in august he made it to stalingrad there they attacked the city and had taken most of the city ,but the soviets managed to rally and pushed the Germans back to one corner of the city. of the 300,000 180,000 died in the city and only 35,000 were rescued and the 90,000 remainig were captured and only 5,000 survived http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/battle-of-stalingrad.asp -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” British jammed German radars. The jammer was alluminum strips. Only 12 planes were hit in this attack. This attack was affective for Britain. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. Allied powers landed on the islands off of Sicily. www.history.com/this-day-in.../allies-invade-italian-mainland -
D-Day (Normandy invasion)
D-day after the british had to retreat out f France the Germans had considered a possible invasion through northern France. so Hitler go defenses and fortification things such as the atlantic wall bunkers and mines.. when Dwight D. Eisenhower became commander he started a campaign of deception to take focus away from Normandy they used fake equitment a phantom army and fake radio transmissions to take focus away from northwestern France 5,000 ships and 11,000 aircraft along with 156,000 troops -
Battle Of The Bulge
on December 16 1944 Hitler led his last offensive in the Ardenes against the allies. the Germans split the American line and did this with over 250,000 troops, but the allies were abel to repel the attack wheb General patton manavured his to cover the battered troops in Bagstone , but it was very costly there were over 100,000 American casualties. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge -
Operation Thunderclap
Proposal to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defenses of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. At Yalta Churchill had promised to do more to support the Soviet forces moving west into Germany, and the priority for Thunderclap moved up the timetable of bombing. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
the US invaded Iwo Jima because they needed an air base to get to Japan. carried out by three Marine divisions they had to take an island defended by 23,000 japanese troops that were dug in to a system of caves and tunnels.. at the end of the battle there were only about 1,000 japanese survivors American losses were 5900 dead and 17,400 wounded
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Battle of Okinawa
the battle of Okinawa was the biggest and last battle of the paciffic islands which involved 287,000 American troops against the 130,000 japanese troops. During the battle the Japaneese goal was to defend the island for as long as possible. they did that by using even more suicide tactics in the air called kamikazee . on the ground the had pilboxes and caves. at the end there were 80,000 japanese 14,000 americans and 100,000 okinawan civillians dead.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bat -
VE day
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Dropping Of Atiomic Bombs
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Later tens of thousands would later die of radiation exposure. Only 3 days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II.
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VJ day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan 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. www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
