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Japanese invasion of China
This was a military conflict fought between China and Japan from 1937 to 1945. The Chinese ended up winning the war. The main reason for it was because Japan wanted territory. The effects of the war were that China woule recover all territories lost to Japan since the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
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Germany's invastion of Poland
German forces destroy Poland on land and from the air. Adolf Hitler looks to regain lost territory and rule Poland. This was the beggining of World War II. The German people wanted a living space. The effects of the war were that the Polish territory divided among Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Slovakia.
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Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. The battle defeated primarily French forces. The German plan for the battle consisted of two main operations, Fall Gelb and Fall Rot. The Germans ended up winning this battle. The effects of it were that parts of France placed under German military occupation.
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German Blitzkrieg
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air force. There were a number of reasons for the Blitz. The first being the failure of the Battle of Britain.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Adolf Hitler watned to conquer the Soviet territories. The effect of the war was the opening of the Eastern Front.
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. The Japanses wanted the island. The effects of the war were Japanese major victory.Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. United States declares war on Germany. United States declares war on Italy.
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Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The purpose of the conference was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments.
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Battle of Miday
This was a battle betweenJapan and the Americans. This attack came 6 months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese wanted this island for more Territory, but it wasn't a very big island. The Amrican ended up winning this battle. It was a four-day sea-and-air battle.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
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Batttle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II. Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. Germany wanted to capture Stalingrad for military purposes. The result was a Soviet victory. Axis superiority on the Eastern Front rapidly began to decline.
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Operation Gomorrah
The attack during the last week of July 1943, Operation Gomorrah, created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and destroying most of the city.
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D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and helped with the Allied victory on the Western Front. The allies ended up winning the war. The effects of the war were territorial changes with five allied beachheads established in Normandy.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. 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.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front. Adop wanted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust. The effects of the war were Allied victory, German operational failure. Western Allied offensive plans delayed by five or six weeks.
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Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima 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. The Americans wanted to capture the entire land. The American did eventually win the war. The effectsof the war were that the Americans got the entire land.
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. The Allied forces suffered 14,009 deaths with an estimated total of more than 82,000 casualties of all kinds. The effects of the war were that it was an Allied victory and Okinawa occupied by the United States until 1972.
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VE Day
It's also known as Victory in Europe day. This was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The significance of this day is that it was the end of world war II in Europe. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
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Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, the United States, Britain, and China released the Potsdam Declaration announcing the terms for Japan's surrender. The effects of it were taht the Japanese would surrende World War II.
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to an end. The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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VJ Day
News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. Thia is the day that Japan surrendered in World War II. The effect of it was that the war had ended.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
