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Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese and chinease troops on the frontier led to what became know as the Marco Polo Bridge incident.The fighting sparked a full blown conflict, the second japanese Sino Japanese war. -
Rape of Nanking
Japanese Imperial army marchedinto china's capatial city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilans and soliders in the city. Reprsented as the worst atrocity during world war 2. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard poland and from the air , Adolf seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule poland. Blitzskrieg stratagey by using bombs and destorying railroads, communication lines followed by massive land invasion . -
German blitzsberg
'lightning war' a body of doctrine using mability to prevent repretition of the attritional deadlock of world war one. 1940 in less than six weeks the german army crushed the combined forces of nations. -
Fall of Paris
Parisaians awaken to the sound of a german accented voice anncoing that curfew was being imposed for 8 pm .German troops enter paris and occupy paris. -
Operation Barbarosa
Germany invaded the soviet union codenmaed operation barbarosa largest military operation in history . -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl harbor was a suprise attack from the japanese . Swarm of three sixty japanese warplans decending the u.s. navel basee in a fercious assault . -
Wannasee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich , Himmler's second in the command of the ss.It was an attempt to extermine the entire jewish population in europe. -
Bataan Death March
Surrendered filipinos and americans soon were rounded up by japanese and forced to march. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Nazi forces the city jewish citizens into a '' Ghetto'' surrounded by barbwire and armed ss guards. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid hamsburg -
Operation Thunderclap
Joint intelligance commitee reportes a four day , four night series of bombs . Code name for raids -
Battle of Jima
American soilders make there first strike on japanese home islands at Iwo Jima. -
Liberation of concentration Camps
American and british armies liberated concentration camps ( western germany). -
VE day
To make formal acceptance by allies in ww2 or nazi germany. -
D(day) Nurmandy Invasion
British and candian to fortified coast of france -
Dropping of atomic bombs
America b29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of Hiroshima. Wiped out 90 percent of the city , killed 80,000 and more due to radaition exposure. -
VJ day
'' Victory over japan day'' japan surrenduring unconditionally to the allies. -
Battle Of The Bulge
Germans created " Bulge'' american defensive line. It was the largest fourgt on the western front.
