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Japanese invasion of China
On July 7, 1937 the japenese sent a lettere to the Chinese asking to cross the lugou Bridge in order to look for a missing soldier in the town of Wanping. The chinese Military refused so the Japanese got uoset and very early on July 8th 1937 they attacked the bridge which was the only way into Wanping. -
German invasion of Poland
The Germans attack started at 4:45 am. When many of th4e towns people were asleep, they dropped bombed used tanks and did everything they could to destroy Poland. This was called Blitkrieg. These attacks went on for multiple nights so rather than being scared the towns people would travel undergroud and sleep a normal nights rest wake up in the morning and go to work like nothing happened. -
German Blitkrieg
In the beginning of WWii the Germans wanted to avoid long warfare. They came up with a stradegie called Blitzkrieging which was where troops in vehicles, such as tanks, made quick surprise strikes with support from airplanes on the town they were attacking. (April 1940 was the attack by the Germans on Denmark -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 american soldiers and salors lost their lives and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Allied invasion of Italy
North Africa secured and Sicily—the stepping stone to Italy—conquered, the Allied forces launched their invasion of Italy on 3 September 1943. It began with British forces skipping across the Strait of Messina to Calabria. A few days later, more British and American forces landed several hundred miles to the north at Salerno. Their plan was simple: the northern forces would throw a net across the Italian peninsula while the British army chased the Germans into it from the south. -
D-Day
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. This would further be known as D-Day -
Liberation of concentration camps
The liberation of concentration campss began in July 1944. The soviet soldiers enter Aushuwitz on January 23, 1945. Awshuwitz in one of the very much known concentration camps. They found a very large amout of sick and ehausted prisoners. -
Battle of iwo Jimma
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) 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, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. -
VE day
This is the day marking the Allies victory in Europe. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
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. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
