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Japanese invasion of china (1937)
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Gemany's invasion of Poland
Ended on October 6th 1939 (1 month and 5 days).
the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced.
Adolf hitler wanted more land, especially in the east, to expand Germany according to the Nazi policy of lebensraum. -
Operation Barbarossa
Ended in January 7th, 1942.
Was the code named foe the Nazi Germany's invasion of the soviet union during world war II.
Adolf Hitler wanted to defeat communism happening in USSR, take over land in USSR and use the Soviet people for slave labour. Also, he knew certain feilds of Ukraine and oil fields of Caucasus would be handy. -
Pearl Harbor
On that day Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii territory. The attack on Pearl Harbor was intented to neutralized the U.S. pacific fleat and hence protect Japan;s advanced into malaya and the dutch east indies, where it sought acess to natural resources such as oil and rubber. -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi party and German government officials gathered at the Villa in the Berlin suburb on Wannsee to discuss and cordinate the implementation on what they called " The Final Solution of the Jewish Questions" -
Operation Gomorrah
The ordes for the operation Gomorrah were signed on May 27 1943, Commensing on the night of July 24, 1943,the bombing continued until August 3.
The operation was originally formulated by British Air Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris and was actually a joint effort between the RAF Bomber Command, the RCAF, and the USAAF. -
Battle of the Bulge
Ended on January, 25, 1945.
Was the largest battle fought on the western fron in Europe during world war II, it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army.
It happened because of Hitler's plan to launch a counter-offensive to thrust through the allied armies in the Ardennes region of northwest Europe and recapture Antwerp in Belgium. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Ended in March 26, 1945.
Was a major battle in which the U.S. marines landed on a eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial army during World War II.
It occurred because the U.S. was following a military strategy of island hopping. In other words, they'd capture/recapture one island and use that island as a base to prepare for an invasion of the next island. -
Battle of Okinawa
Ended in June 22, 1945.
It was the largest amphibious landing in the pcific teather of world war II.It also resulted in the largest casualities with over 100,000 Japanese casualities and 50, 000 casualities for the Allies.
The US was getting closer & closer to Japan in regaining control of the Japanese advances in the Pacific. Okinawa was the final action of the US before the decision was made to use the atomic bomb. This was because an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been hugely. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate victory in Europe day. The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use the atomic weaponry during war time when it drops the atomic bond on the Japanese city in Hiroshima. Through the dropping the atomic bond on Japan, marked the end of the world was II. -
VJ Day
Japan's formal surrednder took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germnay, japan's capitulation in the pacific brought six years of hostilities
to a final and highly anticipated close.
