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Japanese Invasion of China
It all started in 1931 when japan invaded china. In 1937 china was sick a tired of japan so the Chinese Nationalists and the CCP. Had agreed to fight together to go against japan. http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub5/item59.html -
German Blitzkrieg
is a method of warfare where they inky used tanks and air planes. To break through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks. Then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437 -
Germany's invasion of Poland
On the 1st of September, 1939, Hitler invades Poland once reassured that Britain and France would continue ignoring his actions with appeasement. Germany launched air attacks with the element of surpise, nearly 20,000 Polish civilians were killed in total. https://sites.google.com/site/intheirownwordsproject/germany-invades-poland -
Fall of Paris
was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Beginning on 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front. http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/07/world-war-ii-axis-invasions-and-the-fall-of-france/100098/ -
Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was a more discreet codename for Nazi Germany's plan of invading the Soviet Union in 1941. Germany was successful in occupying parts of the Soviet Union, mainly based in Ukraine. Ultimately the operation was failure, resulting in thousands of casualties and a short-lived reign of terror. http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/07/world-war-ii-operation-barbarossa/100112/ -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbour was a surprise attack mission from the Japanese Imperial Navy angainst the navy of the United States. The attack came as an immense shock to the Americans and directly led to their involvement in the war. The attack did not follow a declaration of war and was therefore deemed as a war crime by the Tokyo Trials. http://ncarter.wonecks.net/2015/12/09/pearl-harbor/ -
Wannsee Conference
It was a high-level meeting of Nazi officials that took place in Berlin.It was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question. Whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. -
Battle of Midway
It was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II Between 3 and 7 June 1942, Only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating https:// -
Battle of Stalingrad
It 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad -
Allied invasion of Italy
It was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy. During the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising Lieutenant General Mark Clark's U.S. Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
It was the act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. -
Operation Gomorrah
one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city.Before the development of the firestorm in Hamburg there had been no rain for some time and everything was very dry. 4th-august-1943-the-horror-of-hamburg-resounds-around-germany -
D-Day
Known as the Normandy Landings, became known as the largest sea-borne invasion of all history. American, British and Canadian forces landed together and stretched out over 5 beaches over a 50 mile stretch. https://www.dday.org/history/d-day-the-invasion/overview.html -
Operation Thunderclap
It was the code for a cancelled operation planned. That was to attack Berlin in the belief. That would of caused 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed. http://ww2orc.tripod.com/id15.htm -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/war2.html -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on. They eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima -
Battle of Okinawa
It was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands.Whichis centered on the island of Okinawa. It also included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. http://world-war-2.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa -
VE Day
was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance. By the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
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. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
VJ Day
News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_Day_in_Times_Square
