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Japanese invasion of China
A clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. This did have an impact on Chinese women, while the Japanese occupation happened, women’s relationships with families and the state were also scrutinized as colonial officials sought to meld conservative Japanese ideals with Chinese Confucianism.
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Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking, 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Then the capital of Nationalist China, left in ruins, and would take decades for the city and citizens to recover from the attacks. After the end of the war, Matsui and Tani Hisao, convicted for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and were executed. Anger at the events at Nanking continues to color Sino-Japanese relations to this day.
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German Blitzkrieg
The German Wehrmacht was one of the most powerful and effective military machines in history. German armed forces had refined their blitzkrieg techniques to perfection during their campaign against Poland and their rout of the French and their allies. Germany’s plans to attack the USSR were heavily influenced by Adolf Hitler’s racist,, which had largely formulated much earlier in his agenda-setting book Mein Kampf.
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Ribbentrop/Molotov pact
Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact. Secret protocols of the treaty defined the territorial spheres of influence Germany and Russia would have after a successful invasion of Poland. Hitler wanted a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union so that his armies could invade Poland unopposed by a major power. The Nazi-Soviet Pact would become the kick-off for World War II.
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Fall of Paris
A German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter Paris. Then German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day. The Battle of France Begins. After the British left and France was left to fight for itself.
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operation barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. The Germans had serious deficiencies. after the events, mobile killing units began the mass murder of Soviet Jews. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, and managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, another 1,000 people were wounded. A reason for Pearl Harbor was President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor in 1939. the Pearl Harbor assault had left the base’s most vital onshore facilities.
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Wannsee Confrence
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
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D-Day
The largest invasion ever assembled, before or since, landed 156,000 Allied troops by sea and air on five beachheads in Normandy, France.A massive military force set out from the UK towards France. It was going to overthrow Nazi Germany and its leader Adolf Hitler. The Nazis had taken over nearly the whole of Europe. D-Day Was the beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler most of all.
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Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. The Germans lost so many experienced troops and equipment that there was no way their army could launch another attack on Allied forces.
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Liberation of concentration camps
As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima has been described as the most heavily fortified area in the history of warfare. The battle for Iwo Jima was ferocious. The hardest struggles were for the occupation of a height that U.S. forces labeled Meatgrinder Hill, in the north, and Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano in the south. later on The air fields were shut down.
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VE Day
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. it was celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people. a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's bombing raids on Japan, and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test effects of an atomic bomb.
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VJ Day
VJ Day, standing for Victoryover Japan Day. 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, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
