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rape of nanking
href='http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm' >here is the link</a>In december of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
here is the linkOne of HItlers first major foreign policy initives after coming to power, was to sign a nonaggresional pact with poland. -
German Bitzkeig
heres the linkalso known as the lightining war. Blitzkeig is a military tatic that disorganizes the enemy through the use of mobile force and locally concentrated firepower. -
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Operation Barbarossa
click hereOperation Barbarossa was a massive invasion of the Soviet Union launched by Nazi Germany to prevent fighting a two front war.V -
Pearl Harbor
here is the linkthis is the event that brought america in to ww2, japan bombs pearl harbor. -
Bataan Death March
click hereAfter the fall of the Bataan Penninsula in the Philippines 75,000 American and filipino troops were forced by Japanese soldiers to make the arduous 65 mile march to the P.O.W. camps. -
Battle of Midway
here is the linkSix months afterthe attack on Pearl Harbor, the USA defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII -
Warsaw Ghetto
here is the linkhe city of Warsaw, capital of Poland, flanks both banks of the Vistula River. A city of 1.3 million inhabitants, Warsaw was the capital of the resurrected Polish state in 1919. Before World War II, the city was a major center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. -
allied invasion of italy
click hereThe British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. -
tehran conferance
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Tehran Conference. -
D day
here is the linkDuring WWII (1939-1945),the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. -
Battle of the Bulge
click hereThe Battle of the Bulge was Nazi Germany's attempt at deviding the Allies' forces North from South. -
Liberation of concentration camps
here is the linkconcentration camps were used to torture people. to push their bodies to the breaking point. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
here is the link was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
VE Day
click hereVE Day stands for victory in Europe day. On this day in Europe evryone celebrates the fall of the Nazi Third Riech. -
potsdam conference
here is the linkThe Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered -
dropping of atomic bombs
atomic bombThe United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weapon during wartime when its drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
here is the linkVJ Day stands for victory over Japan Day. On this day everyone in America celebrated victory over Japan.
