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Japan Invades China
Japan invade China launching a full force of invasion to China to take over Manchuria as a launching base for their troops, it was started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at Marco Polo Bridge, when Japan successfully invade China they didn't advanced further into China but there are no reason for Japan to do so as most of China with no Strategic importances -
Rape of Nanking
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. -
Invasion of Poland
Adolf Hitler understood that his overall conquest of Europe relied neutralizing Poland in the East so he begin to send forces to cross Polish Territory to officialy begin WWII it was for Hitler to build superiority and excellent commands for the first Modern War -
The Lightning War (Blitzkrieg)
Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns and it was successful in Poland but not Britian use to breach in enemy defense and territories, during the war they turn in most opposing troops and force surrender and victory against 8 countries -
Fall of Paris
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. Gramny wanted to start a war with the nation -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 1941, Operation Barbarossa was launched to begin the East Front by an German invasion of the Soviet Union, a plan to capture the Soviet capital of Moscow in less than 8 weeks and a massive land and air campaign, Operation Barbarossa were quite unrealistic from the beginning. The start of the war was the most favorable for Germans as they took Russians by surprise and destroyed a large part of the Soviet army in the first weeks -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
The Day of infamy Japanese diplomats in Washington DC conferring with Secretary of State Hull on peace measures, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor with a hundred of planes and destroyed most battleships the attack was to intended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and hence protect Japan's advance into Malaya, nearly two hundred planes were destroyed and 3 thousand casualities and within in an hour the U.S declared war on Japan -
THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
The Wannsee Conference was held on 20 January 1942, in a villa owned by the SS-Nordhav Foundation in the attractive Berlin lakeside suburb of Wannsee. It was presided over by SS-Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and Security Service. Heydrich summoned fourteen men representing the governmental and military branches most involved in implementing the practical aspects of the Final Solution. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
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. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. 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 battl -
Kasserine Pass
On this day, German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against an Allied defensive line in Tunisia, North Africa. The Kasserine Pass was the site of the United States’ first major battle defeat of the war. created the first use of the "desert fox" unit thing. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain launched 791 bombers flew but only lost 12 planes because they have a new radar-jamming device and and they bombed Hamburg after they lost civilians from German raids. They continue to attack Hamburg until November and British bombers lost increased as long they do more. -
D-Day the invasion of Normandy
On June 1944, More than 160,000 Allied Soldiers landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French Coastline to fight Germany on the Beach of Normandy, France more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed and they sacrifice more later on the Allies had reached the Seine River, Paris was liberated and the Germans had been removed from northwestern France and this mission was to keep the germans away from a coming attack north of the Seine River -
Battle of the Bulge
a major German offensive is launched against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region on the Western Front. Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German counteroffensiv.On December 16, three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima, Despite the difficulty of the 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. -
The Battle of Okinawa
A Strategic map marker for both the Allies and the Japanese, Japan's mainland to defend the island against the American assaults and casualties mounted on both sides, the allies need the final conquest of Japan Proper. With Victory the it was the end for the Japanese War to end their Empire -
VE Day
War ended on this day. Germans surrendered. this day is also celebrated in the us and in britain -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. they wanted to scare the people in a large scale matter. It killed many poeple and many of countries are scared of us cause of that and how much power we hold with technology. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Rhode Island is the only state with a holiday dedicated to V-J Day
