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Japan and China went to battle after Japan invaded China when they were weak. Japans air force killed many Chinese. Japanese troops killed around 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. 10-20 million Chinese civilians died as well. In 1940 the war went stalemate, Japan was unable to reach victory, and China was unable to remove them from their land but Japan has issues with their economic needs like oil. They then decided to attack Pearl Harbor which led to WWII. -
Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking needed to be destroyed. Majority of the city was burned, and Japanese troops launched a campaign against civilians. In what became known as the “Rape of Nanking,” the Japanese killed an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” and additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of who were beat or killed in the process. -
On September 1st Germany invaded Poland. Poland was heavily outnumbered, and struggled. They fought hard and caused many German casualties, but they were defeated within weeks. Germany had more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, they broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw. October 6th Germany occupied Poland. -
Germany wanted to avoid a long war. They decided to try a tactic where they take each place out one at a time. Germany used this tactic against 9 places. They couldn't defeat great Britain though. This was called the Blitzkreig tactic. -
On June 14, 1940, Parisians wake to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing on loudspeakers that a curfew was being put in place for 8 p.m. that evening as German troops entered and occupied Paris.By the time German tanks came into Paris, 2 million Parisians had fled, with good reason. In short time, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day. -
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. This was the largest German military operation of WWII. About two years after the pact was signed, More than 3 million German soldiers supported by 650,000 troops of allies attacked the Soviet Union. Many soviets were surrounded and cutoff therefore having to surrender. The Soviets launched a major counter attack, but after Germany fixed themselves they attacked the soviets yet again and won. -
At 7:58 on December 7th Japan air raided the island of Oahu. They sent jets there were about 170 of them. About 2,403 civilians were killed and 1,178 were wounded. Two ships and 188 aircrafts were destroyed. December 8th Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan. -
After the invasion of the Soviet Union, Herman Goring ordered to make all the necessary preparations for the Final Solution of the Jewish problem. The meeting basically was to figure out a way to get rid of the Jews. They came up with extermination camps where 1.7 million Jews died. -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is known as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest battles in war. From August 1942 through February 1943, more than two million troops fought and nearly two million people were killed or injured, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. But the Battle of Stalingrad ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces. -
This was the biggest air raid of WWII. There were approximately 20,000 deaths and Hamburg Germany was destroyed. People had to hide in place to avoid being killed. They had to run and try to stay alive while everything was being destroyed. -
The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent fight that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, started the armed fight to prevent going to extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other protests in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
On June 6th the Western Allies hid and set up to attack Normandy. Over 4,700 were wounded or missing out of the 35,000 that came on shore that day. The loss rate was about 13%. They over powered Normandy and took down the men. This was a turning point of the 20th century. -
Hitler chose this moment to launch his last great offense of the war. 200,000 assault troops in the initial wave and over 800,000 in reserve, ready to fight. This caught American forces by surprise. This battle was anther battle that lead to WWII -
This 800 bomber raid dropped 2,700 tons of explosives to destroy Germany city. There were about 22,700 to 25,000 dead. The Dresden bombing was a terror campaign that dealt a devastating assault on civilians and cultural sites, it was part of a war where such tactics had been deployed. Less than three months later, and eight days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, the Germans signed the unconditional surrender. -
850 Marines died capturing a Japan. The US landing forces suffered 6,821 killed and 19,217 wounded. Although most in the 20,000-strong Japanese garrison were draftees, they refused to surrender, fighting carefully until only a few hundred remained alive to be taken prisoner. The mounted a flag at the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. -
On April 1, 1945, more than 60,000 soldiers and US Marines of the US Tenth Army stormed the shore at Okinawa. A bad land, sea, and air battle went on for nearly three months.April 1, a wave of 355 Japanese army and navy kamikaze aircraft attacked the armada of Allied ships helping the invasion, and further attacks continued into June. 26 ships were sunk and another 164 damaged. There were 49,000 American casualties, including about 12,000 deaths. -
This was the day that the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany. This marked the end of the second WW. On 25th April 1945, Allied and Soviet forces met at the Elbe River: the German Army was all destroyed. Five days later, Hitler killed his dog, his new wife Eva and then committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. After six years and millions of lives lost, the Nazis were crushed and the war in Europe was finally over. -
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, therefore ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term was also used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. -
This was the deciding and start of camps were they took Jew. These camps were were many Jews worked in bad conditions, and most of them ended up dead. These camps were used to keep Jews from the everyday population. They were seen as a threat. -
On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only nation that used atomic weapons while in war. When they drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. About 80,000 people were killed directly due to the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. About another 60,000 were to be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the bombing.Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argued that it started the Cold War.