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Japan invades Manchuria
During WWll Japan invaded Manchuria. Japan wasn't looking for war, Japan was looking for resources, and Manchuria had a lot of resources. they also were losing land and Manchuria had a lot of land. Japan invaded Manchuria when they took over the city called Mukden in Manchuria. https://www.lermuseum.org/interwar-years-1919-1938/japanese-invasion-of-manchuria-1931 -
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Modou's WWII Timeline
The time when the second world war happen. -
Nuremberg Laws are enacted
During the Holocaust, The Nuremberg Laws were added and were racist. Adolf Hitler and Germany's government made them. The Nuremberg Laws were only about the Jewish and if Jew broke those laws, that they weren't supposed to do, they would have a hard consequence. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The second time and this time Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia! The League of Nations was faced with another crucial test! https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/ww2-italy-invades-ethiopia -
Germany invades Poland
When Germany invaded Poland, Adolf Hitler used a strategy called "blitzkrieg" which means a "flash war". Adolf Hitler's army attacked in the air and land and that was how World War 2 began. -
Auschwitz concentration camp opens
Auschwitz concentration camp opens! On May 20, 1940, The first concentration camp prisoners, 30 criminals from Sachsenhausen arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz I camp facilities held 30,000 prisoners and 100,000 Soviet prisoners from war, also the 10,000 prisoners were forced labor to construct an I.G. Farben factory. -
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain!
in June 1940, Adolf Hitler had expected that British would surrender after, Germany had defeat of France in June 1940, but Britain didn't surreder and they were determined to fight on. The Great British had great air forces called the Royal Air Force (RAF). After World War 1, Gemany were ban from having Air Forces. But Germany's gornverment re-established Luftwaff, and by 1940 it was the largest and most formidable air force in the world.
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Japan awaking the Sleeping Giant!
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor!
Reasons why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor:
•Easier for them to take conquer other countries because of the Great Depression in WWII
•Could stop the US from sending military weapons to Great Britain or Solvent Union
•Could show strength and they shouldn't be made fun of in WWII
It was a failure because they missed the oil tanks and when they bombed the 8 warships there weren't any aircraft on them; the US was able to fight in WWII. December 7, 1941 -
Japanese Internment
After Japan attacked Prael Harbor, The Gornverment was scared that the American Japanese which they called (alliens) might work for Japan. Most of the American Japanese were next to the beach and Warships, and US thought that the American Japanese would let Japantake over there. So America made Interment camps and said to the American Japanese are free to go there, but American Japanese didn't want to go. About a month later FDR signed a paper and all soliders forced the American Japanese to go. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway! Japan had things on their way, they were using codes, then the US learn that Japan was using codes then they hacked it and surprised Japan instead of Japan surprising them. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Guadalcanal was a victory for the Allies in the Pacific. Japanese items were in the Solomon Islands, then U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control over control.The end of the battle, on February 9, 1943 the Japanese had lost two-thirds of their army troops on the island; the U.S. Marines & the U.S. Army had lost less than 2,000 soldiers and about 60,000 deployed. The ships' losses on both sides were heavy. The Japanese lost way more. -
Battle of Tunis
The US defensives line in Tunisia, NA. Rommel was send to NA in Feb 1942, to help his Italian Axis partner. Later Rommel decided for a move. Rommel learned the weakest point of US defensive line; at the Kasserine Pass, 2mile wide gap in Tunisia’s Dorsal Mountains, where was defended by American troops. His first strike worked. In the attack America got from their position; left behind most of their weapons. More than 1,000 American soldiers were killed; 100 were prisoners. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima! the US Marines WON!
On February 19, 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima was really an epic battle between the U.S. Marines and the Army of Japan, it Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan! American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. In some of the biggest fighting of World War II, and about 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, and almost 7,000 Marines. -
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day)
Day when German items throughout Europe laid down: In Prague, Germans surrendered to the Soviet antagonists; on the Channel (Sark). German surrender was a cease-fire. Documents were signed in Germany. About 1 million Germans were fighting in the end of Czechoslovakia, but then stopped by the Russians and took prisoners. The Russians took about 2million prisoners in that time, just before and after the German surrender.While, more than 13,000 British were released; sent to Great Britain. -
D-Day (battle at Normandy)
Yes that D-Day (battle at Normandy) happened.
The Allied power made a huge Victory and history
The Allie power tricked Hitler from think that the Allie power were aiming for other places. The Allie power started from Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and Omaha, then took over most of France back. Then later on they went to Germany and then on May 8, 1945 the Germany surrendered and Hitler committed suicide a week earlier, on April 30 1945. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or (V- J day)
After Germany was defeated, Japan was still fighting in the Pacific and the US had been working on Atomic Bombs. Japan was fighting and didn't surrender, the US decided to send a bomb to Hiroshima called "little boy" and it exploded 2,000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, their next target was Nagasaki, and they send a bomb called "fat man" it was 1,650 feet above the city and 22,000 tons of TNT; the killed estimated between was 60,000-80,000. -
Potsdam Declaration
Japan surrenders, The Allied powers won. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Then after Normandy day, the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki; killing thousands of people. Japan surrendered on the 10 of August 1945, Japan surrendered after Hiroshima and Nagasaki being bombed.
