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Japanese Invasion of China
this was a fight between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. -
German Blitzkreig
Blitkreig describes a war method. you attack in a very dense group and push through your oponent. This caused short military campaigns. Germans tried it on Poland in 1939. -
Fall of Paris
Europe had been at war for nine months, but Britain and France had not been fighting. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack on America from Japan. At 8 a.m., Japan's planes attacked an American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Japan destroyed 20 American vessels. American finally joined WWII. -
Wannsee Conference
They wanted to start the 'Final Solution', the killing of 11 million European Jews. Reinhard Hetdrich, the chief of security and police and the SD, gave a speech on the fate of the Jews. They wanted the Jews out by either evacuation, deportation to the camps, liquidation, and ghettoization. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The German authorities dported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the ghetto. Germans and their auxiliaries killed 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. On July 28, severla Jewish orginizations created an armed self defense unit, Jewish Combat Organization. -
D-Day
The Allies went into Western Europe. This invasion was ont of the largest military assaults in history. Sometimes this is called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
US is the first and only nation to use atomic weapons. This was on Hiroshima. This bomb marked the end of WWII, some say it might have started the Cold War. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American soldiers attacked Hapanese Home Islands for the first time on February 19. The marines took out the defending forces after a month of fighting. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
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VE Day
Great Britain and US celebrated Victory in Europe Day. They put out fkags anf banners. -
VJ Day
Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending WWII. Both August 14 and 15 have become known as V-J Day. -
Battle of the Bulge
German offense is sent out against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region on the Western Front. Hitler tried to seperate the Allied armies into northwest Europe by Blitzkreig goes through Ardennes to Antwerp.
