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german blitzkrieg
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. Blitzkrieg was used by Germans as a war tactic to quickly defeat their enemy. This military tactic was primarily used by Germany during World War II. Blitzkrieg made war more effective compared to trench warfare. Unlike trench warfare which resulted in a stalemate quite often, blitzing the opponent kept the war -
japanese invasion of china
July 1937 a full scale war broke out between China and Japan. The fight over this land started back in 1931 but broke out into war in 1937. Japan wanted this land because of imperialism and nationalism. They needed more resources due to there need of demand of supplies. Later japan came into a stalemate with china so the set the eyes on Southeast Asia and the pacific islands. Which made japan look for more land elsewhere like Pearl Harbor. -
germany's invasion of poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. Germany wanted this land because of their mostly Jewish population. He wanted to completely destroy the Jewish race and them only way to do that was to attack them at the source. This attack on Poland is the first time German forces used its famous battle strategy, Blitzkrieg. Once the German forces had plowed their way through, devastating a swat -
Fall of Paris
On the 5 of June the Germans forces pushed southwards and French resistance collapsed leading to the fall of paris On the 14 of June 1940 residents of Paris woke up to the Germans outside their doors. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the French army to hang on the Americans army would hopefully come to aid. The president of the United States told the British prime minister that we would not join the war but we would send them military supplies to help aid the French army. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched a Massive invasion on the Soviet Union. He had 150 division that was made up of 3 million men and over 100 tanks that destroyed the Soviet frontier into the Soviet territory. They were trying to take over the city of Moscow therefore conquering the Soviet Union. The event looked like it would be a success but later turned the war after the German were unprepared to heavy rains and blizzards that occurred in the territory. -
Operation Barbarossa Cont.
They were also, being counter attacked by the Soviet Union and were not familiar to their territory. This war made the Germans have a two front war that they could not win. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa -
pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack lasted up to 2 hours ending in many lives lost and military supplies lost. There was 19 navy vessels destroyed and 8 aircrafts carries and the planes destroyed and more 2000 men were killed. More than 1000 men were injured. This attacked lead to the joining of United States in WWII. The U.S was fighting along with Great Britain and France in Europe and fighting in the -
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Wannsee Conference
On January 20,1942 German officials of the Nazi party met for a conference in the villa in Berlin suburbs of Wannsee to discuss what they thought of 'Final solution of the Jewish Question." the Final solution was a code given for the killing of Jews and other un wanted ethnic groups. In 1941 he established his idea of mass murdering to Germany. The men who sat at the conference did object to Hitlers idea. Therefore, they discussed how they would execute the plan that was made already. -
battle of midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Advances in code breaking helped the United States counter Japan’s planned ambush with its few remaining aircraft carriers, the U.S. inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. This was an important turning point in the Pacific campaign. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. This was also the first time t -
battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. It is considered the greatest battle of Russian history and World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. The Soviets surrou -
Operation Gomorrah
British army launched a bombing raid on Hamburg on the evening of July 24, 1943. From the 791 air crafts that were flown only 12 of them were lost. In what was a few hours they had dropped around 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs killing around 1,500 German civilians. Also, the U.S. Eighth Air Force bombed northern Germany and had two raids on Hamburg during daylight hours. -
Operation Gomorrah Cont.
The Allies would use a device called Windows which interfered with German radars and confused them, therefore many of the aircrafts were never detected. The Allies kept the attacks going until the end of November of that year. The operation left more than 30,000 died and around 280,000 buildings destroyed that were industrial or munitions plants. This operation was one of the turning points of Britain against Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-launched -
Allied invasion of Italy
On July 10th the allies began the invasion of Italy in Sicily. On September 3rd 1943 the allies invaded mainland Italy trying to take hold over Mussolini’s land and power. After a few weeks the Italians southern part surrendered to the allies in June 1944 Rome fell to the allies. In this battle it was estimated that the allies lost some 60,000 soldiers and the axis lost some 50,000 soldiers. -
D-Day(Operation Overland)
On June 6, 1944 the Invasion of Normandy began when around 150,000 allied soldiers landed on a 50 mile stretch of beach land on a heavily fortified French frontier. They had around 5,000 landing carriers and 11,000 aircrafts to support the invasion. There was around 4,000 men killed on that day with many more wounded or missing. The Germans gave a Heavy resistance in Omaha Beach where over 2,000 American soldiers were killed. -
D-Day Cont.
Near the end of August of 1944 the allies had reached the Seine River and had liberated Paris from German control. They later prepared on how to enter Germany and meet up with Soviet soldiers and surround German forces. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
operation thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was a proposal to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport structure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defenses of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. Dresden, lying so far in the east of Germany that it had been out of range from RAF attention for much of the war, had received very little bombing so far. C -
Battle of the bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945)
In December of 1944 Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe. This was known as the Germans last major offensive battle. The battle lasted 3 weeks and ended in major losses. In this battle this U.S alone had almost 20,000 killed, another 20,000 were captured, and 40,000 were wounded. The Germans lost some 100,000 men killed, wounded and missing in action in this battle. In the end of the battle of the bulge the allies were able to come back together and push back against t -
liberation of concentration camps
As the war was coming to a close, Allied forces began to move across Europe. While moving they came across the German concentration camps. The soldiers began to see that these prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. Only after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment -
Battle of Iwo Jima
On February 19th 1945 the US invaded the island Iwo Jima. This battle consisted of 70,000 US soldiers and 18,000 Japanese soldiers. This battle lasted 36 days and had many tragedies. There was 7,000 American soldier kill 20,000 wounded and on the Japanese side they lost the majority of all then men barely surrendering with any soldiers. The US took over the causing the Japanese territory to shrink backing them back to the home island. -
VE-Day
On May 8, 1945 the Germans finally surrender to the Allies after they had lost many men against the Soviets in Copenhagen and Oslo near berlin. After a Cease fire on the Channel Island of Sark, many other documents were signed in Berlin and northern Germany. While Britain and the U.S. celebrated on this day the Soviets celebrated on the ninth since that same day they had lost around 600 men. The surrendered because they were surrounded by all sides and had no other option. -
VE-Day Cont.
This event impact the whole world since now there would be some peace after millions of deaths in Europe alone. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa started on April 1 and lasted till June 22, 1945. In this battle was 287,000 American troops and 130,000 Japanese soldiers fighting over this land. By the end of the 82 day japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers. This battle was Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. This battle was one of the last biggest battles before the dropping of the atomic bombs which lead to the surrendering of japan. -
dropping of atomc bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in -
VJ-Day Cont.
After this day there was many clebration going on around the war since the deadliest war had ended finally after many years of fighting. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day -
VJ- Day
The Allied powers had first told the Japenese to surrender on July 26, 1945, but they had refused to surrender. The U.S. then dropped the bombs and from it had the Japenese surrendering. Hirohito stated "it would not only result in the ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation but would also lead to the total extinction of human civilization” if they did not accept surrender. This event officially ended the world war.
