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Japanese Invasion of China
Military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China, and Empire of Japan. China fought Japan with money help from Germany. -
Rape of Nanking
This time in historty Known as the raping of Nanking is when a mass murder and mass raping by the Japanese troops on the civilians of Nanking the massacers happened over a time period of six weeks, the murders were as large as 40,000 to 300,000 of civilians along with wipespread rape and looting. -
German Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
German Invasion on Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Operation Barbarossa
code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.[16][17] Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl harbor was a military attack on the U.S naval base from the Imperial Japanese Navy. The idea the Japanese had on attacking was ti keep the U.S Pacific fleet from interfering with plans the Japanese had on southeast asia. The attack on pearl harbor had the untied states go into what we call a red scare for the first time the people of the U.S had doubt in their govt. One interesting fact I found was that the Japanese has 353 planes on their fleet that came in two waves. source:mylist.com -
wanseen conference
The Wanseen Conference was a meeting place for the officials of the Nazi Germany group often held in the suburbs of Berlin. The dictator SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt held the meeting often to make sure that all officals were coorperating with how all things with the transpertation pf the european jews would be transported to poland and sent to camps and killed. source: wikipedia. -
Battle of midway
The battle of Midway was a very intense naval battle faught in the pacific theater. This battle was faught six months after the Japan did a attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States deafeated an attack fleet on the Imperial Japanese Navy, causing heart breaking defeat on the japanese fleet. Source: wikipidea -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World WarII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad inRussia, on the boundary of Europe. Civilians where hit by direct air raids, it was also the turing point in the European theater. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the ghettos in Europe. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital in the territory of the General Government of German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah, also known as the Blitz week. British raided Hamburg, Germany, by night. while the americans bomb it by day. The british were brudally beaten by the Germans, killing 167 britians. The Germans didnt see it coming while during the night of that july 2,300 british bombs where dropped on Hamburg germany killing more than 1,500 german Civilians. source: historychannel.com -
D-Day
D-day was an invasion on Normandy France, the invasion consisted of 160,00 troop along a 500 mile long strech of heavily fortified french coast line. France and Nazi German would fight along the coast of normandy this fight was faught with the help of 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts. 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the travel across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s troops. -
Operation Thunderclap ( never went through)
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented because the attack that was planned for this was a massive attack on Berlin the results would end up with 110,00 killed -
Battle of the Buldge
The Battle of the buldge was a majoroffensive campaign through the reagions of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The attack caught the allies off gaurd making this the highest of the casualties of any of the operations they had faced The battle also completely destroyed Germany's armored forces on the western front which Germany was largely unable to replace. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was the major battle in witch the United States landed and eventually capturing the entire island of Iwo Jima. The 5 weeks in Iwo Jima was the bloodiest and fiercest fight in WWII -
VE Day
VE Day, also known as victory in Europe day. The day that the Allies accepted and said that we would go to war with Nazi germany regardless that they would never surrender under its armed forces -
Battle of Okinawa
82 day long battle that was codenamed Operation Iceberg. Allies approached Okinawa and planned to use the island as a base for air operations. Japan lost almost 78,000 soldiers; U.S. lost about 15,000. -
Potsdam Declaration
This Document went over all the terms of the surrending Japanese, also regarding the statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
At this point in history, The Atomic Bomb was dropped by the allies in the Japan city of Hiroshima, this bomb consisted of 15,000 tons of TNT. This Bomb so big killing more than 80,000 people. This bomb later killed tens of thousands from wounds and radiation poisoning, This bomb was teh ending of WWII Source: history.com -
VJ day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. The 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 Missour.
