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Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese Invasion of China was a disagreement between china and japan where china resisted the expansion of the Japanese influence in their land. Japan took over large areas of eastern china trying to unseat the nationalist governemt of Chiang Kai-Shek. A delay happened next which made the Japanese forces go back to Southeast asia and to the pacific WWII against the west and their allies began in late 1941. Japan was defeated which resulted its end of china's occupation. -
Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
The German-Soviet Pact, also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact after the two foreign ministers who negotiated the agreement, had two parts. An economic agreement, and a ten-year nonaggression pact. The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention. On September 3, 1939, Britain and France, declared war on Germany. These events marked the beginning of World War II. -
Germany's invasion of poland
Poland was split up between two powers which was stated by the German Soviet pact which allowed Germany to attack. Due to the power of Germany, the Polish army was defeated within weeks. -
German Blitzkrieg
The Blitzkrieg was a military tactic that the germans invented and it was used in WWII. It's a quick way to attack and defeat their oponents in the shortest time possible. They used tanks, planes, and artillery. Germany defeated the following countries performing the Blitkrieg: Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Norway, France, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia and Greece. -
Fall of Paris
On this day, Germany entered Paris and announced a curfew to be set at 8 pm. The British prime minister convinced the french to hold on to peace and that America would enter the war and help save France. French premier telegrammed the U.S president and asked for any and all help possible. Secretary of State Cordell Hull opposed knowing that Hitler, and Allies, would take such a public declaration of help as a prelude to a declaration of war. Canadian troops entered hoping for a free France yet. -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany invaded the Soviet Union and they named it Operation Barbarossa. It had more than 3 million axis troops and over 3,000 tanks which made it the largest operation in history. Hitler defeated the Soviet Union because he was against communism which was occurring there. Also he wanted to take over land in the USSR, and use their civilians for slave labour. He also knew certain fields of Ukraine and oil fields of Caucasus would be helpful. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor in the U.S seeking revenge. The U.S stopped trading with Japan because Japan was taking over land in South East Asia which belonged to the U.S. So in return, the Japanese attacked the harbor resulting in the loss of 2400 American navy and 21 ships wrecked. 188 aircraft were destroyed. And this resulted in the U.S getting involved in WWII and declaring war on Japan. -
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a low key military project to create the first nuclear weapon. Fearing that the Germans would create a nuclear weapon and use it in the war, This made the U.S come up with the Project so they would beat the Germans to it. The purpose of this project was to end WWII by using explosive weapons and force Japan to surrender. The negative aspect of this project was that it gave other countries the chance to create even more powerful weapons which could destroy them. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprisin
During WWII, people of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising made other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. this ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards, anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. The Nazis controlled the amount of food that was brought in, and disease and starvation killed thousands each month. -
Operation Gomorrah
This was when British bombers attack Hamburg, Germany by night while Americans bombed it by day. Britain seeked revenge on Germany because British civilians had suffered lots of deaths thanks to the german bombings. Payback struck on Germany and Britain dropped 2,300 bombs on Hamburg. More than 1500 germans died from the attack. Although Britain had only lost 12 aircraft of 791. To make it worse, the U.S joined the bombing and attacked norther Germany. -
D-Day
The attack began when allied planes and warships bombarded German positions along the coastline. This happened to ruin the defenses making it easier for the troops to get ashore. Approximately thousands of ships set out from the south coast of England.They were supported by over 11,000 planes. The naval force crossed the channel overnight. by the end of D-Day, the allies had to put 156,000 troops ashore in Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
This battle was an attempt to push away the allied front line west from northern France to south western Belgium. This name was given because the Germans created a "bulge" around the Ardennes forest in pushing through the american defense line. Given that the Americans were only 80,000 compared to the germans which were 250,000, this made the Americans be pushed into retreat. The battle went on for 3 weeks, resulting in a huge loss of americans. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the 1st to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of WWII. On July 23, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps. The Americans were responsible for liberating Buchenwald and Dachau, while British forces entered Bergen-Belsen. -
Operation Thunderclap.
Allies were debating on whether they should attack and bomb eastern germany. They wanted to stop transport infrastructure behind the eastron front. The allies wanted to show germany that the nazi's failed them which made them go against them and attack. They started off by bombing Dredsen and almost destroyed it completely. The allies wanted to destroy and kill lots of germans in order to destroy their morale. -
The battle of Iwo Jima
It was the first major battle of WWII to take place in Japan. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the Americans raised the U.S flag in victory. -
Battle of Okinawa
U.S needed the Okinawa to capture as they advanced across the Pacific towards Japan. It was needed as a base to prepare for the planned attack of Japan. It was the biggest of the Pacific island battles of WWII, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. 10th Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese 32nd Army. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
On this day, both Great Britain and the U.S celebrate Victory in Europe Day. As well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The eighth of May spelled the day when Germans surrendered to their soviet antagonist. The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner. V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow. -
Potsdam Decleration
A day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan submits its consent to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, as President Truman orders a halt to atomic bombing. At the desire of two Cabinet members, the emperor summoned over a meeting of the Council and convinced them to consider accepting the terms of the Potsdam Conference, which meant unconditional surrender. But in the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, it was agreed: Japan would surrender. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The U.S dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; Thousands died later due to radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” -
VJ Day
VJ Day was the day when it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, which ended World War II. It stands for “Victoryover Japan Day,” the term has also been used for when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. several months later after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
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Website Citation
http://www.britannica.com/event/Sino-Japanese-War-1937-1945
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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
http://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched
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http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
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