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Japanese invasion of China
<a href='http://http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/sino-japanese-war' >battlehe japanese and the chineese were at conflict for a while but after the marco polo bridge incident they were at full blown conflict and that is when the japanese invaded china they managed to take over a lot of the main ports and chinese cities but nobody ever did win because japanese could not quite get the win and chinese could not get them off of their land so they called it a draw the result of this was around 10-20 million chineese civilian deaths -
German Blitzkrieg
it is a war tactic that is supposed to cause disorganization among enemy forces by using mobile forces and concentrated firepower it results in short military campaigns to preserve human lives and limit the use of artillery they did this for more succesful tactic with less artillery and lives lost -
Germany's invasion of Poland
battlethe reason for this battle is that adolf hitler wanted to regain lost territory and take over poland once the germans got in they set up concentration camp throughout the area and even though poland had a lot of men they were out gunned and lost the fight -
Battle of Britian
battleGerman and British air forces clashed in the skies over the UK, in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’ failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German -
Operation Barbarossa
battleThe germans had planned to attack the soviet union with over 3 million men and 3000 tanks to take the land from the jews and set up slave camps but the germans had slowly retreated because if they had not they would have sacraficed a lot of their forces -
pearl harbor
battlehundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. because they were at conflict for a while. The Japanese destroyed about 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. the day after the battle president rosevelt declared war on japan -
Battle of Death March
battleaftter the u.s surrender of battan peninsula 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished -
wannsee conference
battleit was a simple and focused agenda to rander a final solution to the jewish question heydrich proposed to put all jew from every corner of england to concentration camps in poland and work them to death then a few months later gas vans came around and would kill around 1000 people today -
Battle of Midway
Midway was an important island because it was in between america and japan. it allowed planes to refuel. by taking midway it purt america in a good spot to attack japan. America won this battle was a turning point in the pacific campaign -
Operation Gomorrah
battleBritish bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorra brittian lost 167 lives as a result of geramn bombings now they were going to bomb them British aircraft dropped 2,300 tons of bombs in just a few hours.Britain lost only 12 aircraft thanks to a new radar-jamming which consisted of strips of aluminum foil dropped by the bombers en route to their target. they were used as a diversion for the planes When it was over, 30,000 people died and 280,000 buildings destroyed -
D-Day
battle156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast normandy it was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. -
liberation of concentrarion camps
battlesoviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camps they entered a camp in poland and later overran many other killing centers on jan 27 they entered aushwitz and found hundreds of sick and exauhsted prisoners -
Operation Thunderclap
battleit was a proposal to bomb the eastern most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front -
Battle of Iwo Jima
battleamerica invaded iwo jima because they needed a base near the japanese coast three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island . Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting -
battle of okinawa
biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan were at stake Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualtiesThe commanding generals on both sides died in this battle 34 ships sunk and 368 damaged; 763 aircraft were lost -
VE Day
battleit is a holiday where both great britian and united states celebrate victory in europe day german troops in europe finally falled back the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners more than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. the nazis were defeated -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
battlean american b29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima over 90% of the city was wiped out causing 80,000 deaths and tens of thousands more died later on due to radiation exposure 3 days later another b29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on nagasaki killing an estimated 40,000 people japans emporer then announced his unconditional surrender of wwii -
Postdam Declaration
battle a day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan submits its Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, as President Harry S. Truman orders a halt to atomic bombing. to prevent being bombed again -
VJ Day
battleV-J Day stands for victory over japan day and it is a holiday to celebrate the surrender of japan -
Battle of the Bulge
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hitler wanted to split the allied armies in europe the allies looked like a large bulge and that is how it got its name 3 german armies launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the ardennes the germans were running low on fuel and the allies fought strong The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. DRAW
