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Invasion of Manchuria
With the problems Japan was experiencing, invading Manchuria seemed like an easy fix. -
Invasion of Manchuria
In 1931,Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. Japan was becoming very overcrowded due to its limited size as a nation. Manchuria could offer them nearly 20,000 square kilometers of land, and this to the Japanese sounded like a quick solution to their overflowing population. It was also believed that Manchuria was rich in minerals, raw materials, and good agricultural land. This to the Japanese people sounded way too good to be true. -
Blitzkrieg Into Poland
German troops invaded Poland in September of 1939. The Germans bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, claimed that the invasion was a form of defense, however, Britain and France were nowhere near convinced. In Hitlers plan, the “racially superior" Germans would colonize the territory and the native Slavs would be enslaved. Hitler hoped the invasion in Poland would be tolerated. -
Blitzkrieg Into Poland
Germany had a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, and in secrecy, the two enemies agreed to divide Poland between them evenly. Eventually, the Nazis attacked the USSR breaking their nonaggression pact, and seized all of Poland. However, soon in 1945 the Soviets would complete liberation for Poland and establish a communist government in the nation. -
Dunkirk
The battle of Dunkirk was fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk to England as German forces closed in on them. The massive operation involved hundreds of naval and civilian vessels. Dunkirk was, by conventional standards, a defeat for the Allies. The British failed to hold ground in France, and lost a great number of men and a huge amount of equipment. -
German Invasion of France
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Battle of Britain
The invention of Radar was a huge advantage to the British.It gave early warning of Luftwaffe raids, which were also tracked by the Observer Corps. Germany failed to defeat the RAF. Britain secured one of its most significant victories of the Second World War. -
German Invasion of France
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Battle of Britain
Hitler wanted to invade Britain in 1940. He expected the British to seek a peace settlement after Germany’s defeat of France. However, Britain was determined to fight on. The Battle of Britain resulted in a British victory. The Germans began by attacking coastal targets and British shipping operating in the English Channel. This battle was ultimately a test of strength between the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and the RAF(Royal Air Force). -
Invasion of Greece
The Battle of Greece was fought between the Allied (Greece and the British Commonwealth) and Axis (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Bulgaria) forces. It began German troops invading Greece through Bulgaria in an effort to secure its southern flank. The combined Greek and British Commonwealth forces fought back with great tenacity, but were outnumbered, as well as outgunned, and collapsed.The Battle is regarded as a continuation of the Greco-Italian War. It resulted in an Axis victory. -
Operation Barbarossa
The outcome of Operation Barbarossa was at least as damaging to the Soviets as it was to the Germans. Although the Germans had failed to take Moscow outright, they held huge areas of the western Soviet Union including the entire regions of what are now Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, as well as parts of Russia proper west of Moscow. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a completely unexpected attack on the United States by the Japanese. The attack took place the morning of December 7th, 1941. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. The day after the attack, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union west of a line connecting the cities of Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan. The failure of Operation Barbarossa proved a death knell to the Nazi ambition to dominate Europe and the world and lead to the defeat of the Axis powers during World War II, resulting in the triumph of the democratic forces. -
Pearl Harbor
To Japan, war with the United States had become to seem inevitable, in order to defend its status as a major world power. Because the odds were stacked against them, their only chance was the element of surprise. -
Bataan
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Doolittle
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Coral Sea
The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese landed, they came under attack from the aircraft carrier planes of the American task force. Unknown to the Japanese, Allied codebreakers had learned enough about enemy communications to discern Japanese plans in time for Allied fleets to assemble in the Coral Sea. -
Midway
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Second Battle of El Almein
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Operation Torch
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Stalingrad
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Guadalcanal
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Coral Sea
Although both sides suffered damages to their carriers, the battle left the Japanese without enough planes to cover the ground attack of Port Moresby, resulting in a strategic Allied victory. -
Kursk
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Philippines 1944-1945
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Anzio
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle of the Bulge
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D-Day
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Yalta Conference
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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Hitlers Suicide and German Surrender
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japanese Surrender