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Germany Elects Nazis
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Japan invades China
Japan was egar for natural resources and wished to gain some of Chinas Vast supply of natural resources.
Germany,Britan,Us,Russia, and France all sent aid to china. Until 1938 then Germany made an alliance with the Nazi party.
One effect was the rape of naking.
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Rape Of Naking
The rape of nanking was a japanese raid on nanking.
Around 300,000 people were killed in the raid.
Girls under the age of eight were raped.
Around 80,000 were gange raped.
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German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of tanks and ground troops.
The germans used blitzkrieg to take Poland and also invade Belgeium and the Netherlands.
The reason to use this tactic is so they could take big countries in more then have the time it would to take the land with a full invasion.
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Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention.
These events marked the beginning of World War II.
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Fall Of Paris
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris.
the germans were now persuing to take northern france to obtain harbors.
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Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea.
Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war
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Attack on Pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan
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Wannsee Conference
On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second In command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons.
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D-day (Normandy)
Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. After years of meticulous planning and seemingly endless training, for the Allied Forces.
This battle lasted a cruel 24 days
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp. Camp staff set fire to the large crematorium used to burn bodies of murdered prisoners, but in the hasty evacuation the gas chambers were left standing. -
Battle of iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations
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VE Day
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
By the time the United States conducted the first successful test Germany had already been defeated. The war against Japan in the Pacific, however, continued to rage. 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 a speedy end. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
V-J Day
it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
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Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance. Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German counteroffensive despite heavy casualties.
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