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On July 7th, 1937, there was a engagement between Japanese and Chinese troops in the outskirts of Beijing called the Marco Plo Bridge near peking. The engagement led to a undeclared war. later on a war broke out between the two over the minor engagement. This led to the Second Sino-Japanese War. It also left China in poverty.
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During the sino-japanese war Nanking the capital of china fell to Japanese forces as General matsui lwane ordered that the city of Nanking to be destroyed to break the spirits of Chinese resistance. Most of the city was burned and the Japanese butchered around 150,00 male war prisoners and an additional 50,000 male civilians and raped at least 20,00 women and girls many were killed in the process many were found guilty After.
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This pact was known as the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, and it was a pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was made a few days before WWII. The terms were that the countries were not to attack each other and no military action against each other other the next 10 years. Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. Hitler Broke the pact with Stalin on June 22, 1931.
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The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the polish garrison of Westerplatte fort at 4.45 am on September 1939 in the first military engagement of world war two. The decision to invade Poland was a gamble as the battleship was not at full strength The Polish Army was defeated within weeks. Warsaw surrendered to the Germans after heavy bombing and shelling. Then, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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This attack began with a German air raid, then went to a race for a counter attack on the coast. The surrender of France led from this, as the French had collapsed. This was very humiliating for France because the fall of the French army only took Germany six weeks. It was one of the most remarkable campaigns, and only the French suffered major losses.
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Blitzkrieg was a concept developed by the Germans as a solution to trench warfare. They used this tactic successfully with the invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1940. It led to advancements in the war and allowed for Germany to take down four nations.
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This operation was when Adolf Hitler launched massive invasion into the Soviet Union. This invasion covered a distance of two thousand miles, and Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in WWII, because its failure forced the Nazis to fight a two-front war. In the end, the Germans plan failed because of the Germans confronted a two front war.
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On December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed the US naval base Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians , and damaging the American fleet. The war had already begun, but after the attack is when the US joined. After the attack The united states declared war on Japan.
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The Wannsee Conference was a conference between Nazi officials discussing how to kill the Jews “The Final Solution” was the code for this conference and they were trying to find a way to wipe the Jews out once and for all. After this conference, Hitler authorized this “final solution” and the killing of the Jews began. This led to the Holocaust.
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After April 9, 1942 U.S surrender of the Bataan peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese about 75 thousand Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps in intense heat and conditions with harsh treatment by the Japanese guards thousands died during the march. The United states avenged its lose in the Philippines with a invasion of the island Leyte in October 1944.
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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle that was air-sea battle's. The United States destroyed Japan’s carrier strength and its best naval pilots. The battle ended the plan of Japanese invasion of the Pacific, and caused enough damage that the Japanese could not recover during the war.
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Operation Gomorrah was also known as the Battle of Hamburgh. It was a campaign that lasted 7 days. This operation was an air raid on Germany by British bombers at night and Americans bomb it by day as a blitz week. It killed over 30,000 people, and destroying more than 280,000 buildings.
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Before the Normandy Invasion, there were months of planning and Weather Delay's. The Allies were trying to figure out their plan of attack and advance into Normandy to end the war. The battle of Normandy lasted from June to august of 1944 and resulted in the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control this created a turning point in then war, which led to German’s surrender more than 4,000 allied troops died and 1000 wounded/missing.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two Japanese cities that America dropped the first atomic bomb on. Before America dropped these bombs, they warned the people by dropping warning from planes. The first atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, but after that Japan didn’t surrender so America dropped the second bomb on August 14th. This led to the end of WWII, and was the first time an atomic bomb was used in warfare.
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This battle was the greatest American battle of the war, having 100,000 American casualties. Hitler attempted to split the Allies using a blitzkrieg attack. He caught the Americans off guard using this tactic and kept them back when they came on a bulge and tried to push them back, The Germans launched an attack through the Ardennes, and a shortage of German supplies and the Americans pushing them back led to a draw in the battle.
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This operation was the code name for plans to bomb Eastern Germany (Dresden). The allies bombed the German city mid February of 1945 killing 35,000 civilians. As Soviet troops approached Reich chancellery Hitler committed suicide on April 30,1945.
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The battle of Iwo Jima was a military campaign between U.S. marines and imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Americans invaded the island on February 19 of 1945 and the battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks in the bloodies fighting of World war 2. 200 Japanese forces and 7,000 marines died. Iwo Jima was captured in the end the army was not able to use Iwo Jima as a staging area for world war 2
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This battle was the last major battle of WWII, and was also the bloodiest battle, killing over 12,000 Americans and 110,000 Japanese, and up to 100,000 Okinawa citizens. There were different types of warfare used such as suicide and kamikaze attacks. This was won by the Allies and put them close to Japan, then allowing them to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and ending the war.
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VE Day is Victory of Europe day. This was the date that Churchill declared as a holiday after Britain defeated the Nazis. It marked the end of Hitler. It was a day to celebrate peace after lost of deaths.
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V-J day known as the Victory over Japan day because it was after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that led to the surrender of Japan. On this day, Americans expressed joy and peace. It was popular until this day became offensive when America and Japan became allies.
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