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Japan invades China
This war was called a "Holy War". The Japanes did have soon help from the Germans. they got help when they invaded Manchuria. They suprised them using the Blitzkreig tactic. -
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The Holocaust
This terrible thing that happend to the jews took out a large chunk of them. About 2,700,000 in the year 1942 alone. there were over 500,000 that helped with just lanning out of it. The Third Reich used the camps as places of incaration but there was a 50% chance you would die if you were in one. -
Munic Conference
This was when the leaders of Great Britain, France and Italy decided to annex Germany from Czechoslovakia. The French already had an alliance with the Czechs but the needded more than that. Here they sighned the munich agreement. Or the Munich Pact. -
Non Agression Pact
Germany Agreed with Russia in the pact to not engage in fighting for ten years. Joe Stalin knew that war was coming in Europe. He wanted to make shure he and Germany were on good terms. However Germany had none of that and the pact fell apart in 1941 when operation Barbosa went down. -
Germany invades Poland
This was the start of WW2. Germany went Through air and land. They used their blitzkreig tactic and poland didnt know what had hit them. Great Britain bombed the Germans just three days later. This showed Hitlers urge to rule the world. -
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Battle of Britain
This fight was mainly fought in the skies. It was the largest air fight to that date. The Germany’s Luftwaffe Was trying the get the Royal Air Force but failed. after Hirler was sent to The british Isles. -
Lend Lease Act
This said that the US would give certain items to aid the Allies. This included arms and defensive weapons. This let us help the allies but not get us completley into the war, at least until 1941. -
Operation Barbosa
The Germans brought over three thousand tanks into Russia. In the battle of Bryansk-Vyazma in October we got 600,000 prisoners. By this time the plans of the Germans were falling apart and by December 5 in the heavy snow the Operation was over. -
Pearl Harbor
Tojo called for this attack. This shocked and unified america. We declared war on the japanese after this. We had many inocent soldiers die for no reason. -
Bataan Death March
After the US surrendurred at the bataan peninsula, they were forced to make a long march by the japanese. About 70,000 men walked 65 miles. This was from Saisaih Pt. to Camp O'Donnell. Camp O'Donnell was a prison camp for captured U.S. military. -
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Battle of Midway
This was the most decisive Naval Battle in WW2. It got the Allied Powers in an offensive Position. After the Battle Americans went straight to tokyo. The Americans wanted justice for what happend six months earlyer and we got it. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
This Battle is considered the turning point in the war. The Germans were gaing ground and getting close to the city. while Georgii K. Zhukov, Russia leader had stacked his army up. Their counter attack was very succesfull and shaped the rest of the war. -
Blitzkrieg
This is a type of warfare were you suprise attack your enemy. The germans did this by invading poland leaving them vulnerable. They basically sucker punched them. while this is a very effective strategy it can also be very risky. -
D-Day
This was the largest military assaults in history. Theyhsd some weather issues that delayed the attack a day. None the less the storming happend and the aliied forces lost about 4000 men but we succesfully got 156000 people through. The american total loss was about two thousand. -
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Battle of the Bulge
This was a huge battle in Belgium Franc. The goal for Germany was to get to the harbor of Antwarp. The allies got their biggest loss of men in the war. America alone had 89500 casualties. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Also called Operation Detachment, was when we captured the Islands of Iwo Jima. We did pay a price for it though. however not nearly as bad as the Japanese who had nearly triple the causualties. of the 22,000 only 216 were taken prisoner which shows how bad it was for them. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Codename was operation Ice berg.The battle was called typhoon of steel". Japan lost about 77000 of their men. While the allies lost about 14000. Their were a lot of Kamakazee attacks in this battle as well. -
VE Day
On this day the Nazis of germany finnally surrendured. The Russians got over 2 million prisoners after they surrendered. They acctually gave up in Prauge. While their official documents were signed in Berlin and eastern Germanyy. -
Hiroshima
The bomb used for Hiroshima was called the little boy. This was our smaller bomb but it still shook the japanese. It killed thousands our suvlilians just from the large radius of the blast. however it was justified because of their previos attack on us and we wouldnt have if we didnt need to. -
Nagasaki
The bomd used for Nagasaki was called the Fatman. This was only the second nuclear weapon ever used in war. While it was the bigger bomb it did not kill as many people as te first. still a devestating loss of almost 80,00 people. The americans had tried and tried to get the Japs to surrendor but they just would not. so we did what we had to do. -
VJ Day
On August 15 japan surrendured and the second world war was over. They had been bombed twice bofore surrenduring. When the world heard the news there was a lot of selebration coming from everywhere. The acctual ceremony for this was on the USS Missouri on september 2. On that day President Truman called it VJ Day. -
Warshaw Pact
This put the Soveits in charge of the armed forces. This happend in Warshaw were several nations agree that they all had each others backs. The pact happend because western Germany was trying to remilitarize. In 1991 the alliance part was taken out of the pact inorder not to start any beef.