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Rape of Nanking
Over a period of 6 weeks, japanese soldiers went door to door in search of young chinese girls and women to rape and kill. -
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german blitzkrieg
A war tactic created by germans. They used aircrafts to confuse their enemies and then attack from different ways. -
Germany's invasion of poland
Germany invaded poland as a claimed 'defense action.' Britain didn't belive them so later declared war 2 days after the invasion. -
fall of paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. it was the largest seaborne invasion in history -
battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. -
battle of iwo jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Army during World War II. -
battle of okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On Easter Sunday, the Navy's Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final attack on Japan. -
VE day
Germany finally surrendered on may 9th. They lost more than 600 soldiers in war before they finally gave europe the win. They celebrated this day in honor of winning the war and recognizing all of their fight and determination. -
dropping the atomic bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
vj day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made on the afternoon of August 15.
