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Japanese Invasion of China
Imperial Japanese army forces brutally murdered hundred of thousands of people - including both soldiers and civilians- in the Chinese city of Nanking. Japanese troops slaughtered an estimated 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. The war grew out of conflict between the two countries for supremacy in Korea. Korea had long been China's most important client state, but its strategic location opposite the Japanese islands and its natural resources of coal and iron attracted Japan's interest. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany had created a new tactic to try and win the war."The lightning war", a nickname for the Blitzkrieg, consisted of muiltiple random attacks throughout the war. These attacks were to disorganize the ememy territory and catch them off guard with moble forces and firepower. This strategy was first used to attack poland in 1939 and this plan stuck until1940. The Blitzkreig wasn't much help because of the little time they had to attack, the plan had failed. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
At 4:45am on September 1, 1939, about 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory to officially begin World War 2. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. Once Hitler had a base of operations within the target country, he immediately began setting up “security” forces to annihilate all enemies of his Nazi ideology, whether racial, religious, or political. -
The Fall of Paris
Paris was invaded by the Germans on June 15, 1940. They have withdrawn the south of the city. They withdrawn to the Germans, to spare the city from devastation and destruction. There was no gunfire, just silence. It seemed that the French wanted to leave it at peace. -
Operation Bararossa
Germany was fighting a 2 front war and with Hitlers determination to enslave the salvic population and kill jews he sent his east side armies to battle not knowing that they would fail Operation Bararossa by underestimating the ememy and compeletly being unperpared to fight. While in salvic territory they faced many counterattcks catching them by surprise. -
Pearl Harbor
On the morning of December 7th 1941, Japanese fighter planes bombed the American navel base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Japan planned this surprise attack due to the fact that they had been stretching the war into the Pacific. The attack destroyed hundreds of American navel vessels and airplanes and resulted in 2,000 deaths. The day after the assault, President Roosevelt asked Congrss to declare war on Japan, and they did, causing the United States to finally join World War II. -
Wannsee Conferance
On January 20th 1942, the Nazi party and German government officials met in a villa in Berlin subburbs to discuss the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The Nazis set up this meeting to inform the government of their plans to illiminate Jews and gain their suport. By this time, the government was already aware that they had already engaged in mass murder of the Jewish people in German territories. The conferance allowed them to set up an official plan which marked the start of the genocide -
Operation Gommorrah
Operation Gomorrah: (July 1943) British Bombers raid Hamburg, Germany at night. The British dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. Killing more than 1,500 German civilians in that first British raid. British attacks on Hamburg continued until November of that year. When it was over, 17,000 bomber sorties dropped more than 9,000 tons of explosives, killing more than 30,000 people and destroying 280,000 buildings, including industrial and munitions plants. -
D-Day
The British , Canadians and Americans were allied against Normandy.Together they attacked the beaches,British and Canadians took beaches codenamed , Gold , Juno and Sword. The Americans were at Utah, and Omaha beach. At omaha beach there were 2,000 American casualties. Less than a week later, on June 11, the beaches were fully secured and over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy. -
Battle of Bulge
<a href='' >http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge</a>In 1944, Battle of Bulge aka Operation Mist was the attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The assault started early morning and due to the weather conditions in the forest, it gave the Germans an advantage to push the Americans into retreat. Having English-speaking German commandos tricked the Americans, causing trust issues within one another in American troops. This resulted with an estimated total of 600,000 GI’s involved and 80,000 abducted, -
Operation Thunderclap
<a href='' >http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden</a>This proposal was to show the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defense of Germany had failed them. The British proposed bombing towards the eastern-most cities of Germany to destroy the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Churchill wanted, “absolutely devastating, exterminating attacks by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland”. The impact it caused swept out the German economy by no more than 2.7%. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
During the Battle of Iwo Jima, B-24 Liberators from the Marianas attacked Iwo Jima from air. The Marianas’ attack was deemed useless though. During Operation Detachment, U.S lost 6,821 killed/missing and 19,217 wounded. The Japanese lost about 21,750 during the battle. Overall, America sustained a greater number of casualties after the battle. As a total summary, The American Forces won -
The Battle of Okinawa
Allied Forces were “island hopping”. They decided to attack Okinawa next. During,the battle at land Allied naval vessels stayed where they were, because there was never ending kamikaze attacks. There were about 1,900 kamikaze missions. The Japanese also sank 36 U.S ships.12,520 American Casualties were killed, 49,151 casualties were sustained. 110,071 Japanese Casualties were killed, 117,472 were sustained. Overall, this was the longest and costliest battle. American forces won the Battle of Oki -
VE Day
The day that the victory was announced was a couple of days after Hitler had committed suicide. On May8,1945 Europe had announced that the war was over. On May 7 the General Jodi signed the Unconditional surrender. This is the document that formally put an end to the war inthis case world war two.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/ve-day/ -
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 9http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mp07.asp
There was a alert that was send out saying that American plains were headed towards them, the alert was latter removed asfter seeing that only three Americam plains were headed there derection. At 8:15 the fist bomb was droped. T accrued August 6,1945 it was dropped over Hiroshima by the plain American B-29. Around 80,000 peole lost there lives that day. Three days latter the plain American B-29 droped a secound bomb over Nagasaki around 40,000 people lost there libes during the secound bomb .
