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Japanese invasion of china
Started with Marco polo bridge incident in 1937 in which a dispute between japanese and chinese troops escalated into a battle. some sources in the modern people's republic of china date the beginning of the war to the japanese invasion of manchuria in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War] -
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German Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. [(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg)] -
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Fall of Paris
The battle of france began in 1940 and consisted of two operation. the first one was case yellow or fall gelb and is when the armored units of germany cut off allied units which had advanced into the country of belgium at the ardennes. when the british and the french saw themselves pushed back by the operation, the british evacuated their BEF or british expeditionary force with other french divisions in operation dynamo [(https://www.historynet.com/fall-of-france)] -
Pearl of Harbor
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. ... Standing in opposition to Japanese conquest of what Japan's leaders termed “the Southern Resource Area” was the United States. [(https://www.historynet.com/pearl-harbor)] -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference (German: Wannseekonferenz) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. [(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference)] -
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Battle of Stanlingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the largest and deadliest battles in World War II. It was a turning point in the war. After losing the battle, the German army lost so many soldiers and took such a defeat that they never quite recovered. Stalingrad was located in Southwest Russia on the Volga River.[(https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_stalingrad.php)] -
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Allied invasion of italy
The Allied Invasion of Italy was the invasion of mainland Italy by the Allies during World War II. The Allies landed on the mainland on 3 September 1943. The invasion followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. The invasion was done by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. [(https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy)] -
D-Day (Normandy invasion)
D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.[(https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/d-day_invasion_of_normandy.php)] -
Liberation of concentration camps
Liberation Of The Concentration Camps. As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944.[(www.iwm.org.uk/history/liberation-of-the-concentration-camps)] -
Operation Thunderclap
plans were drawn in 1944. then the plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be implemented in coordination with a Soviet advance, but was again rejected as impractical, and instead a number of coordinated smaller attacks against cities in the communications zone of the Eastern Front through which key routes to the east converged, were chosen.[(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderclap_plan)] -
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Battle of iwo jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. ... In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. [(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima)] -
VE day
Facts and Summary, V-E Day, also written VE Day: V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe Day. ... V-E Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, ending World War II in Europe. [(https://www.historynet.com/v-e-day-1945-the-celebration-heard-round-the-world.htm)] -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The atomic bomb, and nuclear bombs, are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons technology during World War II. Atomic bombs have been used only twice in war—both times by the United States against Japan at the end of World War II. A period of nuclear proliferation followed that war, and during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union vied for supremacy in a global nuclear arms race. -
VJ day
Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan's formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. [(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-d)] -
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Battle of the Bulge
The battle lasted for around one month as American forces fought back and kept Germany's army from overrunning Europe. The Battle of the Bulge actually took place in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. When the Germans attacked, they pushed back the center of the Allied forces' line.[(https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_the_bulge.php)]
