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Japanese invasion of China(1937)
Japanese wanted power, and China's economics and resources. The Japanese killed and raped several people in Nanking. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland (1939)
Germany invaded Poland because it was easy access to get to other lands, a lot of the Jews fled to Poland. Also invaded Poland because he wanted to overpower all the ones around and against him. -
German Blitzkrieg(1939-40)
Germany quickly overran a lot of Europe and was victorious for more than 2 years waiting on a military tactic called the "blitzkrieg" (light war).The tactic was a concentration of offensive dangerous weapons. -
Operation Barbarossa
Two years before the invasion the two countries signed political and economic for strategy purpose, then on June 22nd, 1941 the invasion began, about 4 million soldiers invaded the Soviet Union. It was one of the biggest inavasion of the warfare -
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a island in Hawaii where the United State Navy naval base, also where the United States government had a ship station and the Japanese dropped bomb(s) destroying everything & caused several deaths, also what caused United States to enter the war. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference was a meeting for the senior officials of the Nazi government to make the decision for the "Final Solution", the decision made led up to holocaust and was when they decided to start setting up the death camps. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Operation Gomorrah
British had suffered 167 deaths from a German bombing, so the British attacked back and the aircraft dropped more 2.300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg. The bombing was 5 times worst than what the Germans dropped on London. About 1,500 Germans were killed in the first British raid. -
D-Day(Nomandy Invasion)
The day Allies came together crossed the English Channel landed on Normandy beach and began the beginning of Liberation of Western Europe fro Nazi control. This freed France from the invasion and preparing to enter Germany. Which eventually they'd meet up with Soviet. -
Battle of Okinawa
This was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. One of the largest causalities 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 Americans.. -
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Operation thunderclap
This was a command to bomb the eastern (most of the Germany cities) Germans were starting to fail at a lot of things. The Germans were fearing getting raided again and had went into shelter and were peparing. -
Battle of the Bulge.
German launches the last major offensive of the war, the battle of bulge was attempt to push the Allies West from Northern France to Northwestern Belgium. This was called a bulge because the germans so called created a bulge around the forest pushing through the American defensive, this was the longest Western front.