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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace. this was known as the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Blitzkrieg was a strategy used by Germany to avoid a long lasting war. The plan was to defeat their enemies in short campaigns using their advanced weapons and military. The first attacked was Poland in 1939. Over the next two years Germany would defeat many surrounding European countries
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Japan attacked US naval and aerial supplies at pear harbor. Japan sent fighter planes with no warning and caused up to 2400 casualties. This caused the US to join WW2
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High ranking Nazi and government officials met to discuss and implement "The Final Solution". The Final Solution was the extermination of all European Jews.
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The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
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Under Adolf Hitler's command, in July 1942 general Friedrich Paulus, the commander of the 6th Army, was ordered to capture Stalingrad, a city that controlled the rail and waterway communications of southern Russia.
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A violent uprising of residents of the jewish Warsaw ghetto. They decided to revolt to prevent deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
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The Italian Campaign was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/italian-campaign
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On July 24, 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” It lasted for eight days and seven nights.
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The D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, was one of the most important military operations to the western Allies’ success during World War II. D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, deploying more than 160,000 Allied troops on air, land, and sea. It marked the beginning of US invasion of Western Europe -
A last-ditch German military counter-offensive against the Allied armies in the West. Hitler hoped that the German counter-attack would surround the British and American armies and stall the Allied offensive against Germany. By early January 1945, the German military effort had failed. The Battle of the Bulge cost the Reich some 100,000 casualties and tremendous losses in military equipment.
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Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest Nazi killing center and concentration camp complex. Auschwitz camp personnel had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward in what would become known as "death marches." When they entered the camp, Soviet soldiers found over six thousand emaciated prisoners alive. These prisoners greeted the soldiers as their liberators.
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The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On April ,1945, the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan
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On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. This day became known as "Victory over Japan Day" or "VJ Day". Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay, on
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On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
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