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The Japanese massacred 150,000, male war prisoners, 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 females of all ages. -
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It was the longest military campaign of the war, lasting from 1939 until the end of the war in 1945. This campaign was the most important because it still had major battles on land in countries like china, japan, and southeast Asia, but all of the other major powers fought over trade routes in the sea. So what was happening wasn't only its own campaign, it affected the European one too. -
The evacuation of Dunkirk was when allied troops evacuated from Dunkirk on the north coast of France. In total, about 250,000 allied troops were saved in about a week. -
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It was a bombing misson on Japan by the Americans. They bombed Tokyo and other locations that were on Honshu. This was the first air attack on the main Japanese Islands
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It was a battle near the islands of midway. It was another attack by the Japanese navy to try to cripple the U.S. Navy for the rest of the war. But instead, the Japanese took a terrible defeat that almost crippled their naval fleet for the rest of the war. -
In this battle, Germany and its allies fought Russia in the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia. The battle was in a mainly urban, close quarters environment and there were air raids that killed civilians. -
Also known as the Ardennes Offensive, it was a German invasion into northern France and Luxembourg. The region of Ardennes was being held by resting and worn out American divisions. -
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It was an important battle where U.S. marines landed on Iwo Jima to fight off the Japanese on the island. -
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