Japan Invaded China
Japan invaded China in 1937, starting the second Sino-Japanese war. he Japanese methodically moved south, seizing control of most of eastern China and all of the major ports by the time war broke out in Europe. The Japanese moved up rivers and railroad lines into the interior of China. Resistance to the Japanese fell primarily on the Kuomintang because the Communists were in the remote areas of northwestern China. Also neither Chiang or Mao wanted to weaken their forced by fighting pitched battles with the Japanese. Despite continuing to occupy much of China's territory, Japan eventually surrender on september 2, 1945 to Allied forces following the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria.
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They were strategically important for both the Western Allies and the Axis Powers. The Axis powers aimed to deprive the Allies of access to Middle Eastern oil supplies, to secure and increase Axis access to the oil, and to cut off Britain from the material and human resources of its empire in Asia and Africa. the North African campaign offered the Allies the opportunity to open up a new front against the Axis. In 1940 each of the five territories along the North African coast: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco had a colonial or semi-colonial status under a European …show more content…
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war. The battle raged for three weeks, resulting in a massive loss of American and civilian life. At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, German losses were greater than their army could take. The Battle of the Bulge is most significant in that it ruined the German army and in essence brought about the end of the war.
-The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki- August 6, 1945. An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel
They were strategically important for both the Western Allies and the Axis Powers. The Axis powers aimed to deprive the Allies of access to Middle Eastern oil supplies, to secure and increase Axis access to the oil, and to cut off Britain from the material and human resources of its empire in Asia and Africa. the North African campaign offered the Allies the opportunity to open up a new front against the Axis. In 1940 each of the five territories along the North African coast: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco had a colonial or semi-colonial status under a European …show more content…
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war. The battle raged for three weeks, resulting in a massive loss of American and civilian life. At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, German losses were greater than their army could take. The Battle of the Bulge is most significant in that it ruined the German army and in essence brought about the end of the war.
-The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki- August 6, 1945. An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel