A blast from the past

  • Italian invasion of ethiopia

    Italian invasion of ethiopia
    The initial probing attacks by the Italians began in 1932, though it had obviously been planned for some time. They started to sieze power and territory along the border. They fougth with swords and primitative firearms.
  • Spanish civil war

    Spanish civil war
    Thsi war began in July 17, 1936 as a series of right-wing insurrections within the military. This war has sometimes been called the first chapter of world war II.
  • Rape of nanjing in china

    Rape of  nanjing in china
    Based on estimate that have been made by historians and charity there were about 250,000 to 300,000 killed during this time period in china.
  • German annexation of the sudetenland

    German annexation of the sudetenland
    The annexations were ran by adolf hitler, He went to more populated areas such as Czechoslovakia. There was a person who decided to help but did little in doing so his name was Berlin sir neviel henderson. In fact he ended up doing the opposite of helping by Czech president Edvard Benes pigheaded for leading his country to resist Nazi infiltration.
  • German invasion of poland

    German invasion of poland
    After signing away czech border regions, Known as sudenteland to germnay at the munich conference, British and french leaders pressured frances ally, Czecholosvakia to yield to germany demands for the incorpotarion of those regions.
  • France and great brittain declare war on germany

    France and great brittain declare war on germany
    German troops crossed the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg that the world had evers seen. This attack had been planned since march. But began on september 3rd.
  • Pearl harbor

    Pearl harbor
    This was a suprise attack. The attacks came in two waves of planes, Leaving chaos behind them with deaths of 2,403. Also left 188 planes destroyed.
  • El-Alamein

    El-Alamein
    On July 1 the German-Italian Afrika Korps led by Erwin Rommel attacked. There were two of the battles and both are a big part of history and a major impact on world war II.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    During this time the united states and its pacific allies fougth for campaign against the Japanese for possession of the previously owned island of Guadalcanal.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    This battle is described by historians as the turning point of world war II. This war left the germany soldiers weak and and ready to retreat. This is one if not the most important victories in the figth against the nazi.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    On this date 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch, To figth germany on the beaches of normady. This is one of the most remembered events in history because it was one of the most succesfull attacks on the nazi party.
  • Philippines(Battle of Manila)

    Philippines(Battle of Manila)
    This figth lasted around a month and a couple of days but the amount of deaths in that figth can either be described as bloody or just a total bloodbath. This also left the city devestitated.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    In this conference it was decided that germany was gonna be divided in to different zones. All that the conference did was agree with it.
  • The end of war in europe

    The end of war in europe
    This was the day to celebrate because the war was finally over. This was the moment when the allied forces finally took out the nazi party.
  • Dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    Dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan to drop off what would end up baing know as the worst cause of destruction ever.
  • Dropping of bomb on nagasaki

    Dropping of bomb on nagasaki
    This was the second time they dropped the atomic bomb,This was because the first time they did not respond with a surrender so the U.S decided to drop another bomb.
  • The end of war in asia

    The end of war in asia
    This war ended because asias economy was doing horrible and couldnt keep supporting the war.
  • Nuremberg

    Nuremberg
    During this time period people developed something known as the nuremberg code this dealed with certain risk that humans should be taking such as proper preperations should be taken before doing any experiment