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The Japanese invasion of China
China and Japan had been in deep conflict throughout the thirties, it all escalated in 1937 when Japan invaded China capturing all of China's key ports and capital cities of Nanking and Shanghai. Public slaughters were abundant, The worst came after the fall of the city of Nanking in December 1937, when Japanese troops murdered an estimated 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H9yKqcs699k/hqdefault.jpg -
Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking. A large portion of these rapes were systematized in a process in which soldiers would go from door to door, searching for girls. -
Germany invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland in a direct act of defiance against the Treaty of Versailles established during World War 1. The Nazis wanted to acquire old German territories lost in WW1 such as West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was a German term meaning 'lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The tactic's purpose was to hit enemies hard and quickly and in a hope to overwhelm the soldiers. It was effective against Poland in 1939, and Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Fall of Paris
The fall of Paris was part of a larger Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France. It was the German invasion of France and other European countries bordering France. German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of blitkrieg assaults. The fall of France was dramatic in its speed, taking less than a month. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. It also would mean that the Germans were now fighting a war on two separate fronts. This ended up destroying the Germans in the end -
Pearl Harbor
Right before 8 am hundreds of Japanese airplanes attacked the American naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted for two hours and destroyed 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The next day congress declared war and we as a country were in World War II. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The purpose of this conference was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The battle was only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. Anywhere from 1.7 to 2.2 million total wounded. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force in World War II killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city. -
Allied assault of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943. The Allies decided to move next against Italy, hoping an Allied invasion would remove that fascist regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the near future. The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. -
D-Day(Normandy Invasion)
More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s -
Battle of the Bulge
It was to be the US army's biggest pitched battle in their history, involving 600,000 American troops. The Allied forces were advancing towards Germany, pushing the Germans back town by town and believing the war to be almost won. But this was Hitler’s last attempt to stop the momentum. His aim was to advance through the wooded area of the Ardennes in Luxembourg and Belgium and cut the Allied armies in two and then push on towards the port of Antwerp, a vital Allied stronghold. -
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. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the invasion of the island of Okinawa itself.It was an 82 day long battle.After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa as a base for air operations for a larger scale invasion on Japan. -
VE day
Victory in Europe Day or VE day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces and accept the loss to the Allies. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan's formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.
