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Manchuria is the place where much japanese buisness was held. Manchuria was seized by the japanese army for the iron and the coal.
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Hitlers growing strength convinced mussolini that he should seek an allience with germany. in october 1936 the two dictators merged an agreement that became known as the rome-berlin axis.
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This is the haulocaust. It was the mass murder of milloins of jews and any german opposition.
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in 1939 Germany surprise attacked poland. Germany invaded poland airspace and mercilessly bombed the capital of poland, warsaw.
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Hitler sent soviet troops to occupy the eastern part of poland. Stalin began annexing the regions in the second part of the agreement.
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Hitler then turned his mind to invading britian and called the plan operation sea lion. Eventually Germany had been stopped by Britians army.
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After being attacked by germany, the soviet union and italy, france seemed doomed to defeat. finally in 1940 France surrendered.
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Under this act the president could lend or lease arms to any country. Hitler responded by saying to blow up any cargo ship they see.
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The germans made a blitzcreig invasion of soviet russia and called it operation barbarossa. The russians used the same tactic as scorched earth to fend off the germans.
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The atlantic charter held up free trade umong nations. The charter later served as the allies peace plan.
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Pearl harbor was a harbor in hawaii that was surprise attacked by japan. the japanese sunk 18 ships, killed 2,400 americans and wounded 1,000.
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On febuary 19 1942, president roosevelt set up a program of internment since japanese americans were considered a threat to the country. The millitary began rounding up "aliens" and shipping them to relocation camps.
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After pearl harbor, japans next target was midway island. American pilots destroyed 322 japanese planes, all four aircraft carriers and one support ship. yamamoto ordered his crippled fleet to withdraw.
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Allied forces of 180,000 troops landed on sicily and captured it from italian and german troops by august. The conquuset toppled mousolini from power.
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code named operation overlord, the invasion of normandy was the biggest land, sea attack in history. the day chosen for the attack was nicknamed d day.
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General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the third reicht. The surrender was officially signed in Berlin
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President Truman warned the japanese unless they surrendered they could expect a rain of ruin from the air. The japanese did not reply. So on august 6 1945 the us dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshim. Three days later the us dropped a second bomb on nagasaki.
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President Truman warned the japanese unless they surrendered they could expect a rain of ruin from the air. The japanese did not reply. So on august 6 1945 the us dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshim. Three days later the us dropped a second bomb on nagasaki.
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The japanese surrendered to general douglas macarthur on sept 2. The surrender took place aboard the united states battleship missouri in tokyo bay.
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These were the trials of the nazis who waged war of aggresion. They were also accused of violating the laws of war.
