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Japanese invasion of China
Japanese invades China and triggers full scale war. They attacked China because they weren't letting Japan expand. Another reason is they needed resources. -
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German Blitzkrieg
Hitler said it was a defensive move, Britain and France didn't believe him and declared war on Germany initiating WW2. The real reason was so Germany could expand and take over more territories.
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. This was a very powerful deadly attack plan causing many victory's. -
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Germany's invasion of Poland
Hitler said it was a defensive move, Britain and France didn't believe him and declared war on Germany initiating WW2. The real reason was so Germany could expand and take over more territories. -
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Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack.The Japanese thought that if they could take out the U.S. ships they couldn't fight Japaneses forces.this caused the U.S. to enter WW2 -
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Wannsee Conference
he conference was held in Wannsee and some of the top German military officers got together to discuss the "final solution". This was code name for the complete and udder annihilation of the Jews. They started mass killing Jews anyway they could. -
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Operation Gomorrah
Hamburg was bombed in July 1943. According to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister for Propaganda, the bombing of Hamburg was the first time that he thought Nazi Germany might have to call for peace.
Many bombings took place after this. 30,000 died in this raid. -
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D-Day
on June 6,. The amphibious invasions began at 6:30 a.m. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture beaches code named Gold, Juno and Sword, as did the Americans at Utah Beach. U.S. forces faced heavy resistance at Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties. -
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Battle of the Bulge
Its goal was to split the Allied armies by a surprise blitzkrieg attack through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
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Operation Thunderclap
the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, that the air defenses of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. troops landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima. They took over two airbases and used them and also the plans for the attacks were taken so the allies lost them. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. they wanted this island to use as a spot to launch air strikes. -
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VE Day
this is a day of celebration because Germany had unconditionally surrendered. Germany had lost to many forces and had to surrender. -
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
U.S. dropped a atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. these bombs initially ended the war. -
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VJ Day
VJ day marked the end of WW2. Japanese was the last country to surrender from the war.