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Japanese Invasion Of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It followed the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95. From there it continued on. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking or Rape of Nanjing, was the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (then spelled Nanking), then capital of the Republic of China. This happened over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, which was the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic made to create disorganization between the enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland and alternatively the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss in Germany (Case White), was a joint invasion of and a small Slovak contingent, that caused the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Fall Of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Beginning on 10 May 1940, the battle defeated primarily French forces. -
Operation of Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting with the senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Battle Of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and who opposed the Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. -
Operation of Gomorrah
This was when the Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the forest Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima lasted between (19 February – 26 March 1945) and was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, on the island of Okinawa, it was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Ocean. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, also known as V-E Day, is a public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Potsdam Declaration
Potsdam Declaration also known as the Proclamation Defending Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. All the Japanese had to surrender. -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
President Harry S. Truman,was warned by some of his advisers that the attempt to invade Japan would result in horrible American casualties, wanted to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This caused spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.