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Japanese invasion of china
Miltary conflit fought primarily between the Republic of China. China fought japan with some economic help from Germany. On july 7th, 1937 chinese and japanese troop exchanged fire in the vicinity of the Lugou ( Marco Polo) bridge. This escalated into a full-scale battle in which Beijing and its port city of Tiamjin fell to Jpanese force. Japan was attracted by the cheap labour force and vast resources and invaded china 1937. -
Rape of Naking
In late of 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces, brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people - including both soldiers & civilians - in the Chinese city of Nanking (or Najing). The horrific events are known as the Nanking Massacre of the Rape of Nanking, as between 20,000 & 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanking, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins & it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks -
Germany's Invasion of China
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German Blitzkrieg
Germany under Hitler's power plans to invade Poland. Germany invaded Poland in Blitzkrieg ( lightning war) England and France declare war which leads to European
war and leads to World war 2. Germany's plan to destory their enemies was by making a series of short campains. Germany overran these new military groups known as "Blitzkrieg". This required the concentraion of harmful weapons. A Polish town lies in destruction for the German invasion of Poland in Septemeber 1st, 1939. -
The Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was a joint invasion by Nazi Germany. The free city of Danzing, the Soviet union and a small slovals contigent that marked the beginning of world war 2. One week after the signing of the Moloto v-ribbentrop pact the German invasion began on Septemeber 1st, 1939. German forces on the morning after the Gleiwitz incident invaded Poland from the north, south and west. -
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German Blitzkrieg
Germany was under Hitler's power that forced Blitzkrieg to invade Poland. This war was known as the "LIGHTING WAR". Then England, and France declared war which Begins the European War and leads to World War 2. Germany's strategy to destroy their enemies was making short campaigns. Which was the Biltzkreig. -
Fall of Paris (Part 2)
The Fall of Paris all started because Hitler wanted to bypass the strong French Fromtier defenses of the Mahinong Line. It lasted until June 25, 1940 (1 month, 15 days). It ended in decisive German victory. With the Fall of Paris also came a great impact. Because of this the establishment of the Free French Forces happened. Also came the Fall of the French Third Republic and the establishment of Vichy France. -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France began in 1940 and consisted of two operations. The first one was consisted of two operations. The first one was Case Yellow or Fall Gelb and is when the armored units of Germany cut off allied units which had advanced into the country of Belgium at the Ardennes. When the British and French saw themselves pushed back be the operation, the British evacuated their BEF or British Expeditionary Force with other French divisions on Operation Dynamo. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th in 1941 the Japanese bomed the Pearl Harbor. Pearl Habor is located in Hawaii, on the island of O'ahu. This attack destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. The reason the Japanese attcked becaused they hoped to break America but insted the United States entired the war. -
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Operation Barbosa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee; in training, doctrine, and fighting ability, the forces invading Russia re -
Wannese Conference
On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, convenced the Wannsee Conference in Berlin to coordinate the Final Solution where the nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. The "Final Solution" was code name for the physical annihilation of the European Jews. The fifteenth high-ranking nazi party and the German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" -
The Battle of Midway
The Japanese formulated a plan to sneak up on the U.S. forces. They hoped to trap a number of the U.S. aircraft carriers in a bad situation where they could destroy them. However, American code breakers had intercepted a number of Japanese transmissions. On July 4, 1942, the Japanese launched a number of fighter planes and bombers from their aircraft carriers to attack the island of Midway. Meanwhile, three United States aircraft carriers were closing in on the Japanese force. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. In November 1940, this ghetto was sealed off by brick -
Operation Gomorrah
On the day of July 24, 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz Week". The attack on Hamburg was called 'Operation Gomorrah'. It was a joint British-American venture. Many of the attacks on Germany up to 'Gomorrah' had been separate British (at night) and American (at day) attacks. The combination of both bomber forces have Harris a substantial number of bombers. Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians. -
Invasion of Italy
Montgomery's 8th army began the Allied invasion of Italian Pennisula. The Italian government secretly agreed to Allies's to surrender. Benito Mussolini started building a new Roman Empire, but military defeats World War 2and makes Germany stronger. 1943,groups around italy overthrew their dictator and wanted to make peace with other allies, but "once again" Germany threatened to any action italy would do. -
D-Day ( Normandy Invasion)
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The D-Day Normandy Invasion was a seabonne invasion. So ended the bloody business of the day when the Allies enacted their brazen plan to take back Europe by way of entry through Northern France.
( why it happened)
The term D-Day is the day the allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy,France.
(effects) By the end of June 1944, about a million Allied troops had reached France. -
Opperation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was a canclled operation planned in August 1944. The plan was envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,00 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decited that the plan was unlikely to work and was replaced with a number of coordinated smaller attacks against cities in the communications zone of the Eastern Front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
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(what happened) On February 19,1945, American soldiers made their first strike on the Japanese Home islands at Iwo Jima.
(why) The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War ll steemed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.
(effects) One third of all marine losses happened during World War ll happened at Iwo Jima. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last and biggest of the Pacific Island battles of World War II. This battle involved 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japenese Thirty-Second Army. This was known as "Operation Iceberg". The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1- June 22, 1945. -
VE Day
May 8th spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany. The main concern of m -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. By August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. -
VJ Day
Japan’s devastating surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, capped a decade of deteriorating relations between Japan and the United States and led to an immediate U.S. declaration of war the following day. Japan’s ally Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, then declared war on the United States, turning the war raging in Europe into a truly global conflict. Over the next three years superior technology and productivity allowed the Allies to war -
Battle of the Bulge
There was a major German offensive campaign sent to Beligum, France, and luxemburge. In December 1944, Hitler slpit the Allied armies. The Germans created a "bulge" near the Ardennes forest/ mounatins and suprised the American troops! The Battle of the Bugle was the "bloodliest war for the Americans! Many troops were killed. At then of this war, German lost because they were out of supply and men so basically they didnt have enough power to win.
