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Japanese Invasion on China
Chinese and Japanese forces clashed near Pelping in North China. The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war and the Chinese forces couldn't stop them. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937) resulted in negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists and a Second Truce. -
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World War II
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Germany Invasion of Poland
At 4:45 a.m. around 1.5 milllion German troops invaded Poland only because Hitler thought that it would bring "Lebensraum" or "living space" for German people. Germany signed a nonagression pact with the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939, which let both countries divide Poland. Only to find out that Britain had signed a treaty with Poland that if they were to get attacked Britain would aid them with military support -
German Blitzkrieg
The German Blitzkrieg was Germany's military tactic, to conquer on different countries all across Europe that were mostly successful. The Blitzkrieg or "Lighting War" tactics were as of tanks, planes, and artillery, along a narrow front. A cause of the German Blitzkrieg was countries losing their land to the Nazi Invasion -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Japan was afraid of the U.S. because they had stronger military force so they needed to eliminate their competitor. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers were killed, 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault President F.D.R delcared war on Japan -
Bataan Death March
The U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on April 9, 1942. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944 more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch on a heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower command. This was the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Liberatipn of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was the first major battle of World War II to take place on Japanese homeland. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location for the US because they needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan which is what started the battle. -
Battle of Okinawa
The U.S. military wanted Okinawa for three reasons, American medium bombers could reach the Japanese home islands from Okinawa, its seizure would sever the remaining southwest supply lines to resource-hungry Japan, and Okinawa could be used as a support base for the scheduled November invasion of Japan proper. With the capture of Okinawa, the Allies prepared for the invasion of Japan. -
VE Day
VE Day is known as Victory in Europe Day, yet were both celebrated by the U.S. and Great Britain, this day was to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. After the atomic bomb was dropped, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” 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.
