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Japanese Invasion of China
During the 1920s Japan was in an economic depression when the Masuda Bill Broker Bank failed its stock prices. An immediate imperial emergency was called, thus Manchuria was colonized in 1931. Chinese citizens then resisted Japanese influence expansion. On July 1937 advance Japanese troops enter China at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Beijing, confronting with the Chinese armies. The powerful imperial Japanese army managed to drive out Chinese soldiers and successfully take Beijing and Taiping. -
Rape of Nanking
In November the Japanese Imperial Army conquer Jiangsu, China after defeating their opponents. One month later they march into China’s capital city-Nanking-with a population of 600,000. Japanese soldiers slaughtered 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers. More than 10,000 Chinese women were raped under the Japanese command. Stores were robbed, building were set on fire, the whole city was damaged by the Japanese army. -
German Blitzkrieg
Hitler wanted to end Germany's suffering, caused by the Treaty of Versailles, and return the nation to its former glory. He promised lebensraum (living space) for the German people, thus causing the German armed force to unite and develop a new military tactic to conquer countries by a quick movement of troops, tanks, and air forces all of which were demanded by the Nazi party. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
Joseph Stalin assigned Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov as Soviet Foreign Minister to negotiate peace with Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The men signed a nonaggression pact where the two countries agreed not to attack each other, join other powers that could be a threat to one of the two parties, and to stay in discussion in case of any questions from the two powers. The pact only lasted until June 1941 when the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union without a warning. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Hitler began a Hunger Plan campaign that supported his idea of lebensraum. The Germans used the Blitzkrieg to conquer Poland. At 4AM about 1.5 million Nazi soldiers march into the country. The German Air Force Luftwaffe bombed the Polish Air Force, along with cities. Finally the German U-boats attacked the Polish naval. Germany conquered most of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union received a little at the western side, causing the Polish government to flee the country. -
Fall of Paris
The Luftwaffe drops Nazi German soldiers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Britain and France agreed to push the Nazi army out of Belgium. However the Allies did their best to kick the Nazis out of Belgium and the French army was pushed out of Holland by the German army. The Blitzkrieg allowed the Nazis to conquer Belgium, the Netherlands, and France also making the British to retreat at Dunkrik. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan desired to colonize the Philippines and Malaya but they had to get rid of an American naval at the Pacific Ocean. Thus Pearl Harbor was selected, because the Japanese knew it would bring a lot of damage. The Japanese Imperial Army destroyed 20 U.S. naval vessels, 200 airplanes, and killing more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers. Their hope was for the U.S. to accept the defeat, but instead the U.S. declared war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
15 leading Nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the operation of the final solution. They all agreed to send evacuated the entire Jewish population in Europe to a camp in Poland, where they would work until their deaths or they’re exterminated. -
Bataan Death March
Japan invaded Manila, the Philippines and both American and Filopino soldiers retreated to the Bataan peninsula where they faced diseases and starvation. 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers were captured by the Japanese Imperial Army and were forced to march at the prison camp near Cabanatuan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler commanded General Paulus to attack Stalingrad in order to protect the oil fields in the Caucasus region. Stalin then commanded the Red Army to protect Stalingrad. The Sixth Army attacked the city and took many parts of it, but Russian soldiers and citizens fought back for their territories. When the cold winter arrive, the German army’s supplies of food, ammunition, and heat were running low. The Sixth Army thus surrender and 91,000 Nazi soldiers were taken POW. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)
A ghetto resistance group was established it was the Jewish Combat Organization(ZOB) acquiring weapons were a great coast. On January 18 1943 the ZOB group lead an attack on the Nazis when they entered the ghetto which lead the Nazi leader to lead a full on attack against the Warsaw jews on April 24 -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion 1944)
One June 6 1944 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along the coast of France’s Normandy region. This was the largest amphibious military assaults in history. This was supposed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion ,when northern France was liberated the Allies then defeated the Germans. -
Potsdam Declaration (1945)
The potsdam declaration was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during WW2 -
Creation of the United Nations(1945); Creation of NATO(1949)
Both the United Nations and the NATO were created to sought out to the ones that needed aid after WW2 to help them rebuild their war-damaged infrastructures and economies. -
Fate of the dictators
-Adolf Hitler: Hitler’s ended his fate when the Soviet Union invaded Berlin
-Benito Mussoloni:The fate of Benito Mussoloni was ended by a Italian partisans who captured him and his wife because they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
-Joseph Stalin: Joseph Stalin fate was accomplished by defeating the Germans and later died of a natural cause. -
Operation Thunderclap
On February 13 1945 allies where raiding German city of Dresden with Allied firebombing raids killing as many as 135,000 people. There were more than 3,400 tons of explosives dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft.These raids was the most destructive bombing of the war. This plan was pointless because Germany was on the verge of surrendering. -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
On April 29, 1945 The U.S. Seventh army’s 45th division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany Nazi regime. When the Americans troops who liberated Dachau were so appalled by conditions that they machine-gunned at least two groups of captured German guards. -
VE Day (1945)
VE day was celebrated on the 9th of May but the victory was on the 8th of may Great Britain, United States, and Formerly occupied cities in Western Europe because this was the day they defeated the Nazi war machine. -
Dropping of the Atomic bombs (1945)
The United States were the only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime, they dropped it on the Japanese city of Hiroshima because of this drop it ended the WW2 and many argue that it ignited the Cold War. -
VJ Day (1945)
On September 2, 1945 Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri after several months after the surrender of the Nazi Germany, because of this capture it brought 6 years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
