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Japanese invasion of China
Japanese Army and politicans either friendly to the Army or intininated by it. Politicans who disturbed the military were likely to be assasinated. The reasons for the invasion were primarily economic. The Japanese wanted to control the resources of China, both mineral resources and agricultural production. Chinese market where Japanese industrial products could be sold.History.com -
Germany's invasion of Poland
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German Blitzkrieg
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Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on 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, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. WW2 facts -
Wannsee Conference
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Operation Gomorrah
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D-Day Normandy Invasion
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Operation Thunderclap
Allied strategic bombing raid against the German city of Dresden. This operation, conducted 13-15 February 1945, has become the most commonly evoked image to illustrate the excesses and horror of conventional bombing of cities. The firestorm caused by Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command on the night of 13 February rivaled that of the raid on Hamburg of 27 July 1943. The immediate controversy about the raid contributed to the end of Allied strategic bombed.history fact on WW2 -
Battle of Okinawa
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Battle of the Bulge
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VE Day 4
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
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VJ Day
