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Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan decided to invade Manchuria due to the lack of resources there own country had, and the number of resources Manchuria had. Wich caused China to "Plead" the league of nations for help. Wich caused Japan to leave the league of nations. and help Germany. https://www.google.com/search?q=was+japan+part+of+the+league+of+nations&rlz=1CAKSOU_enGM868&oq=was+japan+part+of+th&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l4.9334j0j7&so
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Nuremberg Laws Establishment
The Nuremberg laws were a series of laws concentrated on making the life of Jews as bad as possible.
The laws were fully established by the Nazi government on September 15, 1935.
For example one of the rules was to fly the Jewish flag in front of your house if you are a Jew. Wich caused most of the jews in Germany to get caught and traumatized later on. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini decided to help Germany in conquering Europe, Which is why Italy decided to work with Germany and decide to attack Abyssinia which is now Ethiopia. And when he did that he claimed that invaded Ethiopia for colonial purposes, and for revenge of when both countries ran into each other and fought. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ySnZCEXZnpfghAx-dQp1ShiBVDQWhVJ8yBGfmaoNg_4/edit -
Kristallnacht
On November 9 german military burned hundreds or Jewish synagogs, burned Jewish industries and businesses and stole from them. And killed about 100 jews. The reason for Hitler doing this was because on November 7, a German diplomat got shot and murdered by a Jewish student. And after talking about what happened Hitler rounded up storm troopers and send then to burn, kill anything that was Jewish. -
Germany Invades Poland
Adolf Hitler decided to send Germany to attack Poland and invade it to start its conquest of Europe. But France and England were not convinced. But Germany denied and said that it was for "defensive action" But it was really just to invade. That was really important because England and France decided to declare war on Germany which essentially started the war in Europe. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland -
Auschwitz concentration camp opens
Auschwitz concentration camp opened in 1940, it was the biggest concentration camp built from the Naz's. It was located in the southern part of Poland, and historians estimated that 1.3 million people died there in 5 years. The goal of the germans in doing this was to kill all the Jews in Europe and have Germany control everyone. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ISE1KPMSWRBLquncrEwLpbTsILF7lLx4R--cP6bOzk/edit -
Battle of Britain
The battle of Britain was a fight between the RAF and the Luftwaffe. Germany had the most developed air force in the world at that time. So they decided to send an attack to take over the air space over Britain. And ultimately taking over the British canal. But even though the Greman air force was powerful, the RAF was also a really hard enemy. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I-JnYx5w0K3cfg-RgPvIBF1ECtjbbeqOp_aSVoSglhc/edit -
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941, Hitler sent his armies east strait into the soviet union power. But he was ready and had prepared an army of approximately 3 million people, to attack Russia. The Germans easily went through the soviet borders and went in straight to Moscow, but already at that point, the German army was already having severe difficulties. and then it started raining heavily, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p5rs8k2mupyC2t-4Z4oGBj8JIo7rMccl9fv5NJCrANw/edit -
Siege of Leningrad
On September 8, 1941, the German army surrounded a city named Leningrad starting a very long battle. The city wanted to make roads from the interior of the country up to the city to evacuate the citizens. and after fighting for years and years, the city was able to connect a road between the soviet forces and the city. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvCRv4LbWkb-OVtnVKmuKLAergN7N_cyGOdbCc_DBS4/edit -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan invading Manchuria lead to the league of nations punishing him and shortly after Japan leaving the league and Helping Hitler to fight the world in the company of Italy. later on, one of the biggest things Japan did was to bomb pearl harbor on December 7, 1941, which caused "the beast to awake." \https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vffBxy4_CPyr5xvBjyEdKXUG7OCyLZJMtd7NMvicIHE/edit -
Japanese Internment
Shortly after Japan bombed pearl harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066, which let the American military to take anyone they wanted from there home and move them. Soon after the American military moved thousands and thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps located everywhere in desolate zones in America. The Japanese stayed in the camps for the whole war. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eHwb7yzrGX_uLi70mC7oT61IrNvtDyvEU-v13ccCECk/edit -
Bataan Death March
After the bombing of pearl harbor, the Japanese started the conquest in the Philippines. In one month the Japanese army had captured Manila the capital of the Philippines, which forced the American-Filipino army to retreat to the Bataan peninsula. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xwN8RMYrfpKjzj7AkQfP6tcv7wmM3UZPIwor4VpnJQ0/edit -
Battle of Midway
After the win of japan in pearl harbor, The empirical Japanese Navy lead by the Amiral Isoroku Yamamoto organized a huge attack against the main US Navy and Air Force base located on the Midway Atoll. https://docs.google.com/document/d/17y_knKVGxTBt387nDIMPDT5T8dbVVU9ktE3uCj07EcM/edit -
Operation Gomorrah
On the night of July 24, 1943, it was revenge time for the Allies. 791 British bombers got deployed droping 2500 tons of fire explosives on the city of Hamburg, And more than 1500 german civilians were killed that night. To weaken Germany even more, after the British bombing, the American aircrafts bombed Hamburg 2 times during the day. British bombers continued droping bombs on, Hamburg up till November, even though they started losing more planes on the way. -
D-Day (battle at Normandy)
During WWII Hitler had controlled the whole northwest of France. After the Americans joined the war they organized a huge amphibious attack on a 50 kilometer stretch on the french beaches. But Hitler suspected an attack, so he hired someone to make a huge fortification wall on the 2100 km stretch. They called it the Atlantic Wall. It was built in order to defend the Northwest coast of France from the allies https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oRYzar-ko3IOCPrnzfgiGoY-a8Fk7FTU13t9haGzgN0/edit -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in a war. When the explosion exploded it directly destroyed 90% of the city killing 80,000 in 3 seconds. And later on, approximately killed 50 more thousands of people. 3 Days later the Nagasaki bomb got dropped. That bomb also killed tens of thousands of people in Japan. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SZEWJUdSc3PeVoLxUbB6TeE9puWN1lvQH7x7N1s5HhY/edit
