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Japan Invades China
Japan empire Invaded manchuria
oppupation lasted till end of war
Japan victory
Got 730 miles of citys destroyed in days -
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The holocaust
Means Whole bUrnt
Was a genocide
6 million jew killed additional 5 million no jewish members -
Munich confernece
Premitting Germany to take portions of czechoslovaia
Meant peace for our time
Annual global meeting in munich
Rather give away czechoslovakia than risk war -
Non regression act
National treaty bettween two or more states/ countries
fallen out of use after second world war
Germany and soviet union met and signed paper
Promise not to send military -
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Germany Invades Poland
Also known as september campagain
Germany advanced from North ,South,and west
It took 1 month and 5 days
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Battle of Britain
Britain used blitzkrieg during the battle
It was fought in the air (Planes)
Battle remains one of the most famous battle
The battle was aganist Britain and France -
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Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Germany Invasion on soviet Union
4 million soilders of axis invaded soviet union
soviet union won
trying to open the east front -
Pearl Harbour
suprise attack
2,403 killed
led to entry of ww2 -
bataan death march
servere phiscal abuse
21,600 killed donnel
surviors brouht to camp o -
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Battle of midway
Cruical naval battle in the pacific
Only 6 months after peral habour
U.S. defeated attacking fleet on Japan navy
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Battle of Stalingrad
The battle is aganist Germany and soviet Union
Germans were ill prepared for the weather which made soviets have bigger advantage
The axis suffered 850,000 caulaties
Hitler wanted to control stalingrad -
Bliztkrieg
German (Lighting war)
A huge attack on to destroy
Alot og air support
short fast powerful attacks -
D day
code named operation neptune
planning operation began a year earlier
allied invasion of normandy
50 mile coast -
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Battle of the bulge
German soilders trying to break the allies
The results is allies win
The biggest and bloodest single war
80,000 americans died -
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Battle of iwo Jima
U.S. finally captured the island
It was the bloodest fighting of the war in the pacific
Of the 22,000 Japenese 216 were prisoner
The remainder were killed in action -
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Lend Lease act
An act to promote
Allows U.S. to lend or lease war suppiles
U.S. Helped any nation for defense
Plan was proposed by FDR -
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Battle of Okinawa
Code name operation Iceberg
Fought on Ryukya islands of okinawa
Refrered to as "Typhoon of steel"
Allies suffered 14,009 -
VE day
Known as victory in europe day
End of ww2 In europe
European allied nation were involved
Formal conclusion of hitlers war -
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The bombing of hiroshima/nagaski
allied victory
Only used nuclear bombs for first time in history
Bombs were called fat man and little boy
15,000 tons of tnt -
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VJ day
Victory over Japan day
surrender cermony In Japan
VJ came after VE
offically ending ww2 -
Warsaw Pact
Also known as treaty of friendship
It signed in warsaw
Between soviet union and central and eastern europe
Was seen as a potentail threat.