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Japan invades China
During the 1930s Japan and china had several disputes ablout thier borders which letaggression between the two. then durig WWll japan decided to invade them at the city of Manchuria. (Harold Kingsberg) -
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Holocaust
This was murder of six million Jews and millions of other people going into and during, World War II. The killings took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. They were organised by the German Nazi party which was led by Adolf Hitler. The largest group of victims were Jews.(Yad Vashem) -
Munich Conferance
During this Conferance, prime ministers Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement the stopped the start of war but they still ended up giving part of Czechoslovakia away to Hitler.(Chris Trueman) -
Blitzkrieg
Another name for this is call "lightning war". This is a military tactic that creates psychological shock and disorganization of the enemy through the speed, surpise and superiority of firepower.(Raymond Limbach) -
Non-Aggression Pact
enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.(Chris Trueman) -
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Germany invades Poland
In morning 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland by air and by land, demonstrating the first use of blitzkrieg war. due to the fact that all the countries in Europe had made alliences with eachother, this cause WWII.(findingDulcinea Staff) -
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Battle of Stalingrad
This was a major battle of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for power over the of city of Stalingrad.(Chris Trueman) -
Lend-Lease act
During WWII when England was under constant attack by the Germans and where about spit of supplies the US decieded to propose the Lend-Lease act. This allowed the U.S. to lend or lease any military supplies except for soldiers.( Lend Lease Bill, dated January 10, 1941. Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, HR 77A-D13, Record Group 233, National Archives.) -
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Operation Barbarbossa
The original name for this was "Operation Fritz". During World War II, the German invasion of the Soviet Union was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.(Chris Trueman) -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy."(ALAN TAYLOR) -
Bataan Death March
This was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.(Elizabeth M. Norman) -
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Battle of Midway
The United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an crazy fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.(Chris Trueman) -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.(United States Army) -
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Battle of The Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge ,"Ardennes Offensive", was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II.Hundreds of German tanks and several hundred thousand troops broke through the thin American lines.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major battle were the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually took over the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Army.(Chris Trueman) -
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Battle of Okinawa
This battle was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War.(Chris Trueman) -
V-E Day
This date marks the Allied victory in Europe. Adolf Hitler killed himslef right before the war ended.(History.com Staff) -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.(Jennifer Rosenberg) -
V-J Day
After the two massive bombs were dropped, Japan finally was forced to surrender on this date.(Ellen Castelow) -
Warsaw Pact
This was a defensive treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.(History.com Staff)
