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Invasion of Manchuria
Japan’s initial invasion of China that raised concerns from the US and led to major US policy changes toward the Japanese. -
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Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
Mussolini adopted Hitler’s methods of expanding. -
Appeasement
Appeasement in a diplomatic policy of making agreements to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. -
Munich Conference
Allied powers allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia, and stupidly gave Germany a lot of influence. -
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Genocide
Killing in the war involving gas chambers or gas vans were main contributors to genocide. In the end of 1941, the Germans built six extermination camps in Poland. Gerlach writes that over three million Jews were murdered in 1942, the year that "marked the peak" of the mass murder of Jews. -
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Tanks and Airplanes
Technology increased greatly during the war, producing all kinds of different offensive and defensive methods for the armies. New technological developments for tanks, airplanes, weapons, and other war materials were improved to better fight the other side. -
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Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Atlantic: a raging battle between Allied ships and German submarines. While the U.S. was neutral before the war, protective measures to place to insure the safety of the Navy from Germany were set. Eventually, a German torpedo sank the American destroyer “Reuben James” in Iceland on 31 October 1941. Before the American declaration of war, the Axis had sunk 2,162 ships destroying up to 7,751,000 tons. A few weeks after, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place. -
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Dunkirk
More than three hundred thousand British and Allied troops had escaped from Dunkirk below the sight of the Germans. The success of Operation Dynamo was important to the British war effort. If the British Army in Western Europe had not got away, most of Britain's trained troops would have been lost. -
Pearl Harbor
Attack on the US that drug them directly into WWII to face the Japanese, and led to future battles such as the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Coral Sea. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the biggest Red Army victories during WW2. The Red Army's defended itself against Operation Blau and the German Army attempted to advance to Stalingrad. There were more than one million casualties during the battle. The Red Army damaged and/or destroyed five major Axis armies and killed or captured more than 600,000 Axis troops. -
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Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was when the German forces hoped to seize the Soviet capital, believing that the capture of Moscow would create the fall of the Soviet Union. Even though Moscow was beginning to collapse, the Soviet forces proved that the German army could be beaten. -
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Battle of El Alamein
On the day before the battle, Allied forces put together disguises to fool the Germans into thinking that the attack would occur at a different time. Nearly everything was camouflaged. El Alamein proved Allied materiel superiority. -
D-Day, 1944
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Had the landing at Normandy been unsuccessful, the war would likely not have ended when it did. The Allies concentrated their forces against Germany first and then turned to throw the full weight of their offensive against Japan. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Last major battle of WWII, where a surprise attack from Japan didn’t pull through and led to their defeat and an end to the warfare. -
Second-Shino Japanese War
Japanese inflicted harsh treatment on chinese prisoners during invasions, ranging from rape to human experiments.