World War 2

By jameswsimms

  • Japanese invasion of China

    The second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the empire of japan

  • Rape of NanKIng

    The Nanking massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing then the capital of the republic of China during the second silo Japanese war

  • Ribbentrop/molotov pact

    A pact between Russia and Germany to not attack each other also known as the non-agression pact

  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Also known as September campaign was a joint invasion by Germany and Russia to take over Poland.

  • Fall of Paris

    A German invasion of France and the low countries in 1940 during the second World War

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Code name for the Nazi's invasion of the Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor

    Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    A major battle of World War 2 in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia

  • Bataan Death March

    The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000 -80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point Bagac.

  • Battle of Midway

    Decisive Naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2 Between June 4th and 7th 1942 only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • Allied invasion of Italy

    Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on September 3rd 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War 2.

  • Operation Gomorrah

    The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War 2 included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids.

  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

    Also known as the Normandy Landings they were the landings of the Allies on June 6th 1944 on a Tuesday during Operation Overlord during World War 2.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on the and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2

  • Battle of Okinawa

    Codenamed Operation Iceberg was a series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryuku islands centered on the island of Okinawa

  • VE day

    Victory of Europe

  • Liberation of concentration camps

    Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war on July 23rd 1944 they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland.

  • Dropping of atomic bombs

    United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945.

  • VJ day

    called Victory over Japan day

  • Japanese invasion of China

    End of the second Silo-Japanese War

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Last major German offensive campaign of World War 2 launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium France and Luxembour on