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Japanese invasion of China
July 7, 1937- Sept 9, 1945 -- conflict broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its terriotory(JApan's desire to imperial power). Japan needed more rresources and space. Japan's defeat ended its occupation of China. It was important to subjugate China, which had been the power in East Asia -
German Blitzkrieg
1939-1940; German Blitzkrieg overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France. Germany wanted to avoid a long war so they wanted to defeat there opponents by quickly overranning most of Europe. Blikrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons, along with a narrow front. This resulted in a short military campaign -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Sparked ny Hitler, Germany and Japan; Britain and France delare was on Germany 2 days after invasion. This hapened before they employed the tactic with the invasions -
Fall of Paris
MAy 10- June 25~ THe German invasion of France. German forces defeated Allied forces in series of mobile operations....o conquest France -
Operation Barbarossa
Invasion of Russia~ invading Russia represented the fiinest army to fightin 20th century. Barbossa was the crucial turning poin of WW2.its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Wannseee Conference
a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. focused was to devise a plan that would render a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. -
Bataan Death March
a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees with intent to kill, brutalize, weaken and demorralize as many of the captives as possible aloong the way. The Bataan surrended on the main Phuilippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WW2. Filipino and American trops on Bataan were forced too make an arduos 65-mile marcch to prison camps -
Battle of Stalingrad
the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingard in the U.S.S.R. Stopped German advance into Soviet Union andd marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. several Jewish underground organizations created an armed self-defense unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in operation gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own"Blitz Week"Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn.he explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destructive raids. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid -
Allied invasion of Italy
British forces skipping across ghe Strait of Messina to Calabria. Few dats later, more British and American forccez landed several -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
156,ooo American, british nd canadian forces landed on five beaches along 50 miles stretch of the heavily fortified coast of Frances normandy region.Invasionn was one of the largest amphibiosu military assaults in history. -
Battle of iwo Jima
This invasion stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. -
Operation Thunderclap
Proposal was to bomb the eastern- most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming eastern front.At Yalta Churchill had promised to do more to support the Soviet forces moving west into Germany, and the priority for Thunderclap moved up the timetable of bombing. -
Battle of Okinawa
April 1 - June 22Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of world war 2. 287,000 trioops of U.S tenth army against 13,000 solidera of the japanse thirty-second army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the Untied States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicig in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Societ soliders were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. Many of these prisoners had survived forces marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Ppoland. Prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
United states became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when dropping it in the japanese city of heroshima -
VJ Day
This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.Victoryover Japan Day,hen Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name.