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Japanese invasion of China
military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb killing tens of thousands in Japan -
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Rape of Nanking
Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder and rape citizens and soldiers in the city. killed 300,000 out of 600,000 people in the city. -
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Germany Invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland. Poland was then divided between Germany and the Soviet Union -
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German Blitzkrieg
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Fall of Paris
German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. France was divided into a German -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack then led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet counteroffensives in December 1941 caused heavy casualties on both sides -
Bataan Death March
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 which began on April 9, 1942. About 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination. -
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Battle of Midway
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II. opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Allied victory -
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Allied invasion of Italy
Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy. followed the successful invasion of Sicily. -
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Tehran Conference
a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany. -
Liberation of Concentration camps
concentration camps were erected in Germany in March 1933 immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and his Nazi Party was given control. -
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Battle of Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. from 17,845 to 18,375 died either from fighting or by ritual suicide. -
VE Day
mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
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Potsdam Conference
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Trumanmet in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. immediately killed 80,000 people, tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning. -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.