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Japan Invades China
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Rape of Nanking
Genocide
Japanese Imperial Army killed half of the population of Nanking
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Germany Invades Poland
Germany(specifically Adolf Hitler) wanted their territory back
Polish army defeated when attacked by Germany -
Fall of Paris
On this day in 1940, the people of Paris awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing that German troops are entering and occupying Paris.
By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled.Then the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day.
Meanwhile, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union,The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles
Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes
Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War -
Creation of the United Nations
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers -
Wannsee Conference
Was a meeting of the elite members of the Nazi party, the purpose of the calling of the meeting was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. -
D-Day
Known also as "Operation Overlord",the battle began on June 6, 1944, when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans.
But on June 5th 1944, the Allied powers had a delay on the attack as it was planned on June 5th. -
Batlle of Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.
As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, hence the battle’s name. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
The Russians liberated Aushwits the biggest concentration camp and illing center was liberated first -
Operation:Thunderclap
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations,
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima, a key island in the Bonin chain roughly 575 miles from the Japanese coast. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army, By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
VE-Day
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 party
In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more
More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Print Cite On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), 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; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
Bombing of Nagasaki
On August 9 Major Charles Sweeney flew another B-29 bomber, Bockscar, from Tinian. Thick clouds over the primary target, the city of Kokura, drove Sweeney to a secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning -
V-J-Day
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
President Harry S. Truman announced news of Japan’s surrender in a press conference at the White House: “This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.”
