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The Holocaust
Historically used to describe a sacraficial offering burned on an alter. The mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi groups, ran by Adolf Hitler. -
Japan invades China
in the late 1930's China was a divided country. In 1937 skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops on the fronter led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge incident. The fighting sparked a conflict in the Second Sino- Japanese War. -
Non-Aggression Pact
Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed.This pact also contained a secret agreemnt in which the Soviets and Germans agreed how they would later divide up Eastern Europe,. -
Germany invades Poland
Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Briatian and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany,To Hitler the conquest of Poland would bring living space for the Germans. -
Munich Conference
This agreement's purpose was to give into Hitler's hands only the Sudentland, the part of Czechoslovakia on the alter of short-term peace. -
Blitzkreig
The German term for "lightning war" this is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through usage of firepower and mobile foreces. -
Battle of Britian
On June 17,1940 the defeated French signes an armistance and quit World War 2. Britian stood alone against the power of Germany's military foreces. The battle recieved its name from a speech Winton Churchill delivered to the British house of Commons on june 18, 1940 which stated "The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britian is about to begin." -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in Mrch 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WW2. Authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the U.S. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22,1941 Hitler llaunched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Unuion three great army groups with over three million German soldiers. In Barbarossa's opening month, German armies bit deep into Soviet territotory. -
Pearl Harbor
On Decmber 7th 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,00 American soldiers and sailors died in the attack plus another 1,000 wounded. -
Wannsee Conference
Conference held in a villa owned by the SS-Nordhav Foundation. High ranking Nazi party and German government officials gathered at the villa to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Battan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WW2. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to make a 65 mile march to pision camps. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack the U.S. defeated Japan in one of the world's most decisive naval battles of WW2 -
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Battle of Stalingrad
A successful Soviet defencse of the city of Stalingra in the U.S.S.R. during World War. Soviet foreces surrounded and crushed an entire German army under General Friedrich Paulus, emulating Hannibal''s encirclement and destruction of a Roman army under Aemilius Paulus in 216 BC. Stalingrad became a desperate ordeal of rodentlike scurrying from hole to hole. -
D Day
During WW2, the Battle of Normandy resulted in the allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. The battle began on June 6th 1944, a.k.a. D Day, some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretchon along the coast of France's Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
On December 16th 1944, Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe. The purpose of this was to split the allied armies by mean of a surprise blitzkreig thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, mimiking what the Germans had done three times previously.Three German armies launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and largest of the Pacific Island battles of WW2. Involved the 287,000 troops pf the U.S. tenth army . -
V-E Day
On this day, both Great Britian and the United States celebrate victory in Europe, they put out flags and banners to rejoyce the defeat of the Nazi war machine. This day spelled out when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms in Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists after the latter had lost more that 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more. -
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Bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the U.S. during the final stages of WW2 in August of 1945. These two bombings were the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. -
V-J Day
Announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending WW2. Ever since August 14 & 15 have been known as Victoryover Japan Day a.k.a V-J Day. -
Warsaw Pact
Formally, the Treaty of Friendship. A collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
