World War 2 Events

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia
    Benito Mussolini sent his troops in toEthiopia expecting to add a victory under their belts. However, things didn't go out as planed ,Ethiopia succeded. This victory was also known as, The Second Italo–Abyssinian War.
  • Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War
    This war was between Spain's Nationalist and the spanish Republic. The war was won by Spain's Nationlist
  • Rape of Najing in China

    Rape of Najing in China
    During this horrible period of time Japanese soliders brutily harrassed many of the Chinese people.They would Rape women over 70 and girls under 8. They kept the middle aged women as prostitutes for the soliders. These soliders would often rape and killed the pregnent women. Then they would often go into houses and make each person in the family rape somone in that particular family.
  • German annextion of the Sudetenland

    German annextion of the Sudetenland
    This happened when Henlein and Hitler met in Berlin and Hitler gave the okay to raise his power to the Czechoslovak government.
  • German invasionn of Poland

    German invasionn of Poland
    This is was the beginnig of world war two where the Soviet Union gained victory over Poland.
  • France and Great Britian declare war on Germany

    France and Great Britian declare war on Germany
    Thesew two countries decided to declare war on Germany becaeuse they had invaded Poland. Also when this had happened they soon realized that Germany was becoming way to powerful.
  • Warsaw Surrenders

    Warsaw Surrenders
    German Troops came massively into Warsaw. With them they carred major bombs and weapons of destruction. Warsaw had no choice but to give up.
  • Soviet Unoin Attacks Findland

    The Soviet Unoin makes an attack on Finland. Many times the Finns did beat them up, but this didin't last long. Soon after the Soviet Union made a hardcore attack on Findland ending to be an upset for Finland
  • Battle of Matapan

    Battle of Matapan
    The Britsh and the Italians were fighting at the Cape of Matapan.It turned out to be one of the biggest naval victories that the British has ever accoplished.
  • France Surrenders

    France Surrenders
    When France surrendered to the Germany they had something simialar to a contract. In this contract it said that France had to disarm all of their French Forces and the occupation of two -thirds of France was by Germans
  • Italy invades Greece

    Italy invades Greece
    When the Italians made a decisions to invaded the Greeks they suspected to have a very easy win.
  • Battle of Taranto

    Battle of Taranto
    The British lauched air attacks on the Harbor of Taranto a.k.a they dropped bombs on the harbor.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    Japanese naval troops and aircrafters attacked the United states naval base. As a result the United States declared war on Japan and as they did that, Germany declared war on the United States
  • El-Alamein

    El-Alamein
    In the first battle of El-Alamein the German forces tried to attack the allied forces and really didn't accomplish anything.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    The Guadalcanal Campaign came to be a very successful battle for the Allied troops. Although, the Empire of Japan brought their A' game it just wasn't enough for the Allied Troops.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    IN this battle the Nazis and the Soviet Union fought for contol over Stalingrad.The Soviet Union came out on the winning side though.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    On the beaches of Normandy Allied troops began to fight the Nazis. Everyone knew that this would be a major sacrifice and alot of blood shed, but we all knew that it had to be done. An as a result the Allied troops had a Victorious battle.
  • Philippines(Battle of Manila)

    Philippines(Battle of Manila)
    The Battle of Manila was a very bloody battle. The Allied Powers and the Japan Empire fought a horrible fight, but the Allied Powers came up on the top.
  • Dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    Dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    The United States wanted to quickly end the war, so President Truman gave the okay for them to drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
  • Dropping of bomb on Nagasaki

    Dropping of bomb on Nagasaki
    This took place three days after the bomb dropping inn Hiroshima. Another atomic bomb was drooped just at a diffrent location