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rape of nanking
The Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking. the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war.Chinese soldiers at Nanking were poorly led and loosely organized.Their first concern was to eliminate any threat from the 90,000 Chinese soldiers who surrendered. -
Ribbentrop/ Molotov Pact
On August 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact, called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. Secret protocols of the treaty defined the territorial spheres of influence Germany and Russia would have after a successful invasion of Poland. Hitler had been creating justifications and laying plans for such an invasion since April. According to plan, Soviet troops invaded Polish territory from the east on September 17. Poland surrendered on September 27. Next day Poland was partitione. -
Germany's Invasion Of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. Then World War II had begun. This happened because German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. The effects was that Concentration camps for slave laborers. The extermination of civilians went hand in hand with German rule of a conquered nation. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). How this happened was because redeploying forces from sending reinforcements to seal breaches in the front. The effects of bitzkrieg is that Germany proved unable to defeat the Soviet Union which together with Great Britain. -
fall of paris
Paris fell to the Germans . The French, having decided not to fight in the capital itself, have withdrawn south of the city. A direct attack on the Maginot Line in the Saar region has been repulsed with heavy German losses. French warships have bombarded factories and a railway line along the Italian coast.French naval aircraft have bombed and set fire to oil stocks near Venice. -
Operation Barbrossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea a distance of two thousand miles. This happened because Germans struggled to the gates of Moscow where Soviet counterattacks stopped them in early December. The effects of this is that German logistics were unraveling while a series of Soviet counterattacks stalled the advance. In desperate conditions they conducted a slow retreat soviet attack. -
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 vesselsm including eight enormous battleships and almost 200 airplanes. this happened because The day after the assault President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.The effects to this isCongress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote.Three days later Japanese allies Germany and Italy. -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb. Wannsee wanted to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." This happend because The mobile killing squads were already slaughtering Jews in the occupied Soviet Union. fifteen high-ranking Nazi party and German government leaders gathered for an important meeting.The Nazis used the vague term "final solution. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45). The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat.Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March.For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army held out despite a lack of naval. -
Battle Of Midway
The intelligence interplay would be critical to the outcome of the battle and began many weeks before the clash of arms. American radio nets in the Pacific picked up various orders Yamamoto had dispatched to prepare his forces for the operation. Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, Japanese fleet commander. chose to invade a target relatively close to Pearl Harbor to draw out the American fleet. -
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.
The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours.
More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.When it was over, 17,000 bomber sorties dropped more than 9,000 tons of explosives, killing. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944.156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing.326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy.The Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis. -
Battle of the Bulge
the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist.An attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front.The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault.Nazi atrocities abounded, including the murder of 72 American soldiers by SS soldiers the Ardennes town of Malmedy. -
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.The air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them.the Luftwaffe only put up 27 fighters and most of them were in the wrong part of Germany.The target had been very accurately marked for them by the Mosquito Pathfinders.the range of air raid shelters available were relatively poor. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops.Was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marianas.American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded.Except for 1,083 prisoners (two of whom did not surrender until 1951) the entire garrison was wiped out. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. Involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese 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. The Japanese also sent their last big battleship, the Yamato, on a similar mission with a few escorts. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms.Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers.About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended.2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender. -
Droppingof the atomic bombs
Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.A few days later, Japan announced its surrender.1949, the Soviets had developed their own atomic bomb. -
VJ Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.JAllies were consistently bombarding Japan from air and sea, dropping some 100,000 tons of explosives on more than 60 Japanese cities and towns apan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.Japan’s surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.V-J Day celebrations around the United State/world. -
Japanese Invasion Of China
The Japanese invaded China proper launching the Second Sino-Japanese War.This happened because The Kuomintang Army was battered and the Japanese were unable to destroy it. the effect of the war was the Japanese government yielded to pressure from the military. Dispatched more troops to China expanding their presence. another effect is The Chinese also had no tactical doctrine for effectively committing the aircraft they had.
