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Japanese invasion of China
On JULY 7, 1937 a fight broke out between Chinese and Japanese troops in North China near Peiping this marked the start of japans invasion on China. Japan mainly invaded China so they could control their resources. They also wanted control over Chinas vast market where japan could sell its industrial products. This gave Japan the resources it needed To fight in the Second World War. http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20080218-jsoldiers01%20jap%20in%20shang%20tales%20of%20old%20shang.jpg -
The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking took place during 1937-1938 with casualties of 300,000 in a town with 600,000 people. The Rape of Nanking represented the single worst act during the World War II time both European or the Pacific of war. The Japanese defeated the Chinese in Shanghai with less troops then the Chinese. The Japanese had a strategy and were well organized. The furious attacks the Japanese made on the Chinese resulted in the Chinese retreating. When the four days ended and the Chinese.... -
The Rape of Nankingcont
had retreated, the Japanese got ordered to go through the city and kill all captives.There were citywide burnings, stabbings, drownings, strangulations, rapes, thefts, and massive murders. these criminal acts were happening from mid-December 1937 through the beginning of February 1938. The Japanese killed everybody or anybody at any giving time the wanted to do so.
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German Blitzkreig cont.
forces and thereby from sending reinforcements to seal breaches in the front. German forces could in turn encircle opposing troops and force surrender. This tactic was very effective in the first two years of war allowing Germany to win most of its battles.
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German Blitzkreig
Germany created this new war tactic known as the blitzkrieg(lightning war) to avoid a long war. Germany wanted to defeat there enemy as quickly as possible. The Blitzkrieg required the concentration of offensive forces along a narrow front. These forces would be used to breach enemy defenses allowing armored tanks to travel freely behind enemy lines Causing shock and disorganization among enemy defenses German air power prevented the enemy from adequately resupplying or redeploying... -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Germany invades Poland. Hitler's plan was to take control of Poland and bring Lebensraum (living space) to Germany the superior Germans colonize the territory and enslave the native Slavs.
Germans invaded all along the border while Germany bombed polish airfield and German warships and U-boats attacked polish navel forces in the Baltic Sea on September 28, Poland surrendered allowing Germany to take control of Poland.... -
Germany's invasion of Poland cont.
The effect Hitler invading Poland is that he gained control of it and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland
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Operation Barbarossa
Hitler decided to invade Russia be cause it was the closest greatest threat that could stop Germany from achieving its goals and he wanted Russia's resources . On June 22, 1941 Germany and its allies invade Russia this was the largest military attack of World War Two. 4.5million troops launched a surprise attack from Germany controlled countries. The red army was unprepared for. Germany's affective blitzkrieg causing tremendous losses to the soviet army by December 1945,... -
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the axis armies were at Moscow and started laying siege to the city, but winter set in before the army could capture Moscow all advances by the axis army halted despite great effort hitlers failed at a great cost. This failure proved to be a turning point in the war.
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the American base Pearl Harbor. They destroyed 8 ships almost 200 airplanes. They killed 2000 soldiers and wounded another 1000. The Japanese plan was to destroy the pacific fleet so the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. This attack caused America to declare war on Japan on December 8 and 3 days later declared war on Germany this plunged America into the Second World War.
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Wannsee Conference
January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi officials meet in a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss what they called the "final solution of the jewish question". SS-Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich was tasked by hitler to meet with these men and to tell them that the final solution was to murder all of the european Jews and how to get rid of them.
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Fleets aircraft, so they could destroy it. These aircrafts had already embarrassed the Japanese Navy at the Doolittle raid on Japan's home islands in mid April, and early May at the Battle of Coral Sea.Yamamoto's had an intended surprise by putting a Japanese Air Base there, but by the American superior communications ruined his plan way before the battle began. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander prepared an ambush on the Japanese. The U.S Navy won this battle... -
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midwaywith perseverance, sacrifice luck, and skills. the American side cost Japan four of their irreplaceable fleet carriers, while only one out of the three the U.S had been taken out. The base at Midway was damaged by Japanese air attack, but had remained operational and later on was an important component in the American trans-Pacific offensive.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was fought on July 4th-7th 1942. This battle was part of America's three point plan. Before the took this action in fighting for this, Japan had general naval superiority over the United States, which gave them usually the choice to plan where and when to attack. After midway the U.S and Japan were practically equal and the United States soon had taken the offensive.Japanese took Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and moved him to Midway in an effort to draw out the U.S Pacific ... -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad fought during the winter of 1942 and 1943 was considered to be a turning point in World War II in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad Russia defeated the German army. after the Germany Army had this defeat they were in full retreat.the Germans were ordered to advance on the city of Stalingrad to secure the oil fields in the Caucasus. Russia’s center communications in the south, as It was the center for manufacturing. Russia had to keep this city especially.. -
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since it was named after the Russians army leader John Stalin. Even in individual streets had been fought using hand-to-hand combat. The areas that had been captured by the Germans during the day had been taken by the Russians when night came.
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Operation Gomorrah
July 24, 1943 Britain decides to turn the the tables on Germany within a few hours british aircraft dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg killing 1,500 german civilians on there first night raid Britain only lost 12 aircraft thanks to a new radar-jamming device. To make things worse american aircraft bombed the northern part of Germany and Hamburg during daylight hours Hamburg was a port city after the bombings work at the port was disrupted the city was in ruins. -
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
The Allied troops made there way across the Nazi Germany discovering tens of thousand concentration camps with prisoners that had walked to these camps starting in 1944. The prisoners were starving and had diseases. The Nazis were trying to hide the mass murders by destroying the camps themselves. They set huge fires in the crematorium to destroy these camps, but when they did so, so quickly the gas chambers had been left still standing. The largest mass murdering camps was Auschwitz.... -
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camp the marches the took to these camps were often called death marches. Soon after the Soviets liberating more camps in the Baltic states and Poland. A little bit before Germany surrendered , Soviet forces liberated these concentration camps the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck. The surviving prisoner were taken good care of but some often died from the effects of malnutrition and diseases.
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D-Day Normandy invasion
D-Day has been called the beginning of the end of the war on June 6, 1944, 156,000 allied troops landed on five beaches along a 50mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region by and forced their way through german lines by August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated by following spring Germany had surrendered. -
Battle of the Bulge
December, 1945 hitler decides to make one major counterattack in a last attempt to compel the allies to sue for peace hitler sent 3 armies to the Ardennes. The American army had left the Ardennes only lightly defended on December 16, 1945 more than a quarter of a million german soldiers launched the most deadly and desperate of the war in the west. The American troops were caught off guard and were stuck desperately trying to keep the german army from advancing. -
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Battle of the Bulge cont
A German fuel shortage and courageousness of american troops was why they were able to crush hitler's plan for a victory in the West an amazing feat by Lieutenant General George S. Patton's for turning the Third Army ninety degrees from Lorraine to relieve the battered troops in the town of Bastogne was the main part of ending Hitler's counteroffensive. The battle of the bulge was the most deadly fought by the us army with 100,000 casualties. -
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The immediate controversy about the raid contributed to the end of Allied strategic bombing.
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Operation Thunderclap
January 13 conditions were at last reported favorable, and at nine o' clock Harris ordered No. 5 Group to attack Dresden that night, to be followed closely by a second strike of a combined force from four groups. Early in the morning American Flying Fortresses would hit the city a third time. there was no axis war material in the city, there were no troops there, no reserves, no supplies, thats why the city was targeted to cause mass destruction and decrease nazi morale. -
Battle of Iwo Jima cont.
iwo jimaThe U.S would be able to have air and sea blockades, while being able to bombard the Japanese and destroying the equipment they have in the air and sea. The leader of Japan believed that with the capture of Iwo Jimma, next would be Okinawa, then the invasion of Japan would come shortly after. The americans had won the Battle of Iwo Jimma and that was the start of their three point plan.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
In 1945 a battle would be fought between the United States and Japanese for 36 days. The Iwo Jimma(sulfur island) would be strategically important to U.S for when they did air bombing mission against Japan. The U.S wanted Iwo Jimma because of its close location to Japan. The distance the U.S is away from Japan the U.S needed an emergency landing strip from any B-29s in bad shape after bombing. The capturing of this island would be a great advantage on the Japanese. -
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there were four airfields they needed to control to add anger win to there three part plan. When the Americans attacked the island they didn't have much intelligence on the island. The Japanese had their faith in kamikazes(planes flying into ships) to cause the Americans to retreat. This battle was the largest sea and air in history, this was also the last of the Pacific war. They won another war to add to their 3 point plan.
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa(operation iceberg) was fought during April-June 1945. The Battle of Okinawa had been a major battle in World War II.There were over 100,000 Japanese casualties and over 50,000 allied casualties. The Americans had a three point plan to wining the war on the Far East war. There plan was to win the Battle of Midway, Battle of Iwo Jimma, and the Battle of Okinawa. The Battle of Okinawa had been a major battle in World War II. The Americans needed the island because... -
The VE Day
The VE Day(Victory in Europe) was celebrated by both the U.S. and Great Britain on May 9th,1945. Great Britain and United States both put out flags and banners to celebrate when the defeat of the Nazi war machine had happened. This was when the Nazis had finally laid down their weapons and surrendered.The main thing the Nazis were worried about was escaping, so they would not be held captive. Soviet Russia took 2 million prisoners just before and after the war had ended... -
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There were 13,000 British POWs camps being released and sent back to Great Britain at the time. Soviet Russia lost 600 more soldiers before the Germans finally surrendered in Moscow, where VE Day is celebrated on May 9th, 1945.
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Potsdam Declaration cont.
The "Potsdam Declaration" explained Japan's present condition and situation. It had the terms for the Japanese surrender and stated the Allies' intentions worries about their postwar status. The "Potsdam Declaration" ended with an ultimatum; the Japanese had to surrender without any conditions or face massive destruction.
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Potsdam Declaration
The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany on July 16, 1945. In the last of the World War II the heads of state conferences, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee got together to discuss post-war arrangements and agreements in Europe.;they often didn't agree. They also discussed future plans against Japan. On July 26th a conference was held to discuss proclamation by the U.S., Great Britain and China, the three main powers.... -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On August 6th 1945 at 8:16 a.m Japanese time the first atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 called the Enola Gay. They bombed the city of Hiroshima about 80,000 were killed, 30,000 injured, and 65,000 more would be killed by the effects from the fallout by the end of the year. This happened because the U.S. President Harry S. Truman had been discouraged by the Japanese's response to the Potsdam Conference when they wouldn't surrender. He chose to use an atom bomb to end the war. -
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dropping of the atomic bombThe nurses population decreased from 1,780 to 150 were able to tend to the others who were sick and or dying after the bombing.
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He wanted to end the war, so he didn't lose more men by having them invade the Japanese mainland. "Little Boy" (a smaller atomic bomb) was dropped, exploding 1,900 feet over a hospital in Japan. this bomb unleashed the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT. There there had been 90,000 building in Hiroshima; after the dropping of the bomb only 28,000 remained. There had been 200 doctors in this city; after the explosion 20 were left. -
VJ Day
It was on August 14, 1945, that Japan had surrendered to the Allies unconditionally; which had ended World War II. The Victory over Japan Day or V-J Day is known to be on August 14th and 15th from then on. The V-J Day term is also used for September 2, 1945 when a formal surrender had taken place aboard U.S.S Missouri docked in Tokyo. -
VJ Day
This happened finally several months after Nazis in Germany surrendered. Japan's surrendering in the Pacific had brought the six years of hostilities to a final close.
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summery cont.
The American dream is tied into this because the United States is a free nation. If we worked hard during this time we would of had a chance to be some what successful,but over in Germany you didn't have that type of freedom. In America we also live in a country thqt disregards discrimination. The American dream ties into living a better life then the generation before us. When Hitler had been in power he was making life worse then the past generation lives, unless you were a part of his Nazi. -
summery
There is a huge difference between a German country ruled but Hitler and the United States. Over in Germany Hitler was a dictator and ruled every aspect in Germany. You were given ration coupons, he told the people how they were going to do things. He was trying to make a perfect race of people and trying to get rid of all the Jews or the people against him. In the United States we have a freedom to do what we want, with of course rules and regulations for our safety and the safety of others.
