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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese forces killed thousands of people.
This happened due to Japan's desire to be an imperial power. Japan needed more resources. They wanted to prove they were strong. -
Rape of Nanking
Japanese imperial Army marched into China's capital of Nanking and murdered 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city -
German Blitzkrieg
The German army moved quickly so it was also calle the "lightning war". Germany quickly overran most of Europe. This war happened because Germany wanted to buid its empire but felt that other Europeans were restricting that. -
Germany's inavsion of Poland
Blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military. Hitler thought the conquest of Poland would be "living space" for the Germans. The German aircraft bombarded the Polish town of Wielun killing nearly 1,200. This happened because hitler wanted to defend the Germans in Poland, to challenge the treaty of versailles. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. 4.5 million troops launched a surprise attack deloyed from German- controlled Poland, Finland and Romania. Hitler wanted the resources Soviet had. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighrter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. They destroyed nearly 20 American naval vessesls, 8 battleships, and about 200 airplanes. -
Wannsee Conference
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Battle of Midway
After the attack on Pear Harbor, six months later the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War 2. There was a major help in code breaking Japan's plan. -
Bataan Death March
Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. They were subjected to harsh treatments by Japanses guards -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Germans ordered Jewish police in the ghetto to round up people for deportation. About 300,000 men, women, and children wer packed into little cattle and transported to death camps -
Operation Gomorrah
A coordinated bombing assult on the city of Hamburg, Germany. Left over 1 million residents homeless and killing 40,000-50,000 civilians. -
-D-Day (Normandy Invasion
Some 156,000 Americans,British, and Canadian forces landed on five on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Fight between the United States and Japan. The U.S. gained control of the islands of Iwo Jima and the airfields. The Marines raised a flag on the top of Mount Suribachi -
Battle of Okinawa
Two U.S. Marines and two Army divisions landed on Okinawa facing 155,000 Japanese ground, air and naval troops holding an immense island on which civilians lived. -
VE Day
An official annoucment of the End of World War 2 in Europe. German troops finally laid down their arms. -
Potsdam Declararion
U.S, president, U.K. prime minister and Chairman of the nationalist governmet of China issued a document outlining the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan -
Dropping of the Atomic bombs
An Amerrican B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over southern Japanses city of Hiroshima. Wiping out arounf 90% of the city killing aroung 80,000 people. Thousands more would die of the radiation exposure. Three days later a second B-29 dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
Japan had surrendured unconditionally to the Allies, ending WW2. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans used over 200,000 troops and nearly 1,000 tanks to break through the U.S. line. Killing thousands of American troops. They had English Speaking Germans behind the Allied lines lying to the Americans
