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Japanese Invasion of China
ending in September 2nd 1945, the Japanese invasion of China was started by a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops which escalated into a battle. China fought Japan with the aid of the United States and Soviet Union -
German Blitzkrieg https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/ww2-german-forces-the-blitzkrieg/1429790341001
Blitzkrieg was the military strategy used by Germany in the second world war. Its exact definition translates to "lightning war" and is based around a strategy of cutting off supplies and attacking the enemy's front line with overwhelming force, especially with air support. The idea behind Blitzkrieg is to strike hard and fast resulting in a quick victory as Germany was fighting wars on multiple fronts and couldn't afford resources to drag wars on for too long. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces where the royal air force defended Britain against German oppression. ending in in October 31 1940, the royal air force defeated the Luftwaffe. the Luftwaffe loss out an end to daylight raids and halted Hitlers plan known as operation sea lion, an attack on Britain from both the air and the sea. The German objective in this war was to compel Britain into accepting a negotiated peace settlement. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee conference was a meeting called by Reynard Heydrich in Berlin. The purpose of this meeting was called to ensure cooperation of government departments in the implementation of The Final Solution. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The allied invasion on Italy was an amphibious landing on the bay of Italy. Winston Churchill was a big advocator in pushing the invasion as he called Italy the soft underbelly of the axis powers. His main reason on pushing for an invasion was because will for war in Italy was declining and he believed an invasion would be enough to drop Italy out of the war -
Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a British U.S bombing the capital of the German state Saxony. It occurred over 4 raids stretching from February 13-15 1945 and took place to level the playing field due to consistent German air raids on allied nations. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
the battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle where the U.S marines captured the island of Iwo Jima from the imperial army. After the heavy losses U.S leaders saw the controversy on taking Iwo Jima as it most likely was not worth the lives lost as it was useless to the U.S army as a staging base. -
Tokyo fire raids
The American bombing raid on Japan known as the fire raids were dropped on the city of Tokyo killing about 130,000 Japanese. justification for this attack by American commanders were they needed to attack Japanese light industry in the city in order to strike at the Japanese war machine.
