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Rape of Nanjing
The day when the Japanese take Nanjing, the Chinese capital of the time. During that period, tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and unarmed combatants were killed by Japanese Imperial Army soldiers. Between 150,000 and 300,000 people were executed in the most atrocious conditions. The city was sacked and burned. The Nanking massacre was the only war crime that was dealt with separately in the trials of the Tokyo Court, after the end of the Second World War. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss was the union between the Austrians and German Nazis carried out in 1938, with the main aims to form a greater Germany. This attempted was unsuccessful because of an authoritarian right-wing government took the power in Austria, and the population voted in to disagree with it. On March 12, Germany invaded Austria, and after a plebiscite, they got the support of the people (almost 100%). -
Munich conference
When Hitler occupied Sudetenland, Britain and France decide to sign in an appeasement with Germany and Italy, and can avoid the war. The content of the treaty was that Germany can occupy Sudetenland, and that was the last land that he demands. After the treaty, Hitler ignore the appeasement, and in 1939, Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
Stalin chose the pact with Hitler to get the necessary time to rebuild his army, greatly weakened by the purges of 1937. For Hitler, the pact opened the possibility of invading Poland and later turn to Britain and France. The pact, finally, was signed in Moscow by Ribbentrop and Molotov in the presence of Stalin. The pact would last for 10 years. Finally, the non-aggression pact was broken by Hitler on June 22, 1941, when the Nazi troops were launched to the invasion of the USSR. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was in 1941, when Hitler decided to invade the western Soviet Union with the aims to conquer and repopulated that place by Germans. The Germans have underestimated the enemy because their logistical was inappropriate for the campaign in that cold region. Also, they had thoughts like conquerors, with the idea to enslave the population and exterminate the Jews. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise and more than 2400 Americans died, including military and civilians citizens. Due to the Perl Harbor assault by the Japanese, the president Roosevelt decided to start a war against to Japan. Respect that the United States, declares war to Japan, Germany (an allied of Japan and Italy) declares the war against United States, and this make to the U.S. to enter to the world. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a duel between carriers that lasted from May 4 to 8, 1942, "the first major naval battle in history in which the surface units did not cross a single shot." The Japanese failed in their objective; the invasion convoy of Port Moresby was withdrawn and the amphibious assault operations suspended. In spite of everything, the battle of the Sea of the Coral was a triumph for the Japanese arms. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This battle it's considered a turning point of the war, the battle were the Germans surrender. The Russians defend this city with all that they had, Hitler say that they soldiers can't leave the battle camp, and they had many lost. At the final, the Germans surrender, and the Soviet Union wins, this was a great humiliation to Hitler, who had elevate the battle's importance in German opinion. -
Tunisian campaign
Walter Nehring, asked the French to transit their units through the defensive line that they had established in Medjez, to which General Barré resisted. The Germans attacked them and they were rejected, although the losses of the French troops forced to them to retire. With North Africa now in Allied hands, the plans quickly changed to carry out an Invasion of Sicily and, later, of Italy itself. -
Allied invasion of Italy
At first there was little opposition, but as they move forward, Anglo-Canadian forces began to run into the first German units. The conquest of Italy dealt a heavy blow to Hitler. Allied armies threatened directly south of German territory. Henceforth, the Italian territory would serve as the basis for the massive bombing expeditions with which the Allies punished German cities, industries and communication lines. -
D-Day
When U.S. joined the war, the British and Americans generals had planned the operation Overlord (or D-Day). This operation was delayed when the allies decided to fight the axis powers in North Africa, and invade Italy. After that events, they launch the operation Overlord, and invade the western Europe. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bomber B-29 launched on Hiroshima a little boy, name of the atomic uranium bomb. Subsequently, in Nagasaki, exactly on August 9, this terrible tragedy is repeated. The bomber B-29 launched over that industrial city a fat boy, a plutonium bomb. Five days later, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces. With this, the Second World War, which began in 1939, was terminated
