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Liberation of Concentration Camps
Concentration camps became a major way in which he Nazis imposed their control. First concentration camps in Germany were all set up as detention centers to stop any opposition to the Nazis by "enemies of the state" -
Japanese Invasion of China
Conflict that broke out when china began a full scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. Militaristically japan was being controlled by hard-line military officers. They wanted war in part simply because part of their ideology extolled war. The effects were that china had a domestic crisis. -
Rape of Nanking
Period of six weeks, imperial Japanese army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people, including soldiers and civilians. Between 20,000 an 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Japanese then committed the infamous nanking massacre or the rape of nanking. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg". It was designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It was a successful execution in result of short military campaigns which preserved human lives and limits. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
German-Soviet Pact stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of soviet intervention. September 1st Germany invaded Poland. which then was defeated within weeks of the invasion. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but then Britain and France were not convinced. Hitler the unilaterally withdrew from both the German polish non aggression act of 134 and London naval agreement of 1935. -
Fall of Paris
German forces occupied Paris, unopposed on the 14th of June after the chaotic period flight of the french government that led to a collapse of the french army. But initially British and french commanders believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in world war i, which rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the axis powers invasion of the soviet union. Nazi Germany invaded the soviet union, in the largest German military operation of world war II. The failure of German troops to defeat soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on pearl harbor was a surprise attack by the imperial Japanese navy air service against the united states naval base at pearl harbor. They had objectives and Japanese had several aims, first intended to destroy important american fleet units thereby preventing the pacific fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the dutch east indies and Malaya and to enable japan. Japan then had many consequences including its role in precipitating the united states entrance into world war 2. -
Wannsee Confrence
A meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. They used vague terms "final solution" to hide their policy of mass murder from the rest of the world. The "final solution" plan to exterminate the Jewish remained uncertain. western European Jews and polish were deported to these ghettos. Mobile killing squads began killing entire Jewish communities. -
Bataan Death March
Surrender of Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the japanese during WW2 approximately 75,000 Filipino and american troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65 mile march to prison camps. Prisoners were forced to march long distances in bitter cold with little or no food, water or rest. Those who could not keep up with the rest were shot. -
Battle of Midway
A decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of world war II which occurred only six months after japans attack on pearl harbor and one month after the battle of the coral sea. It was the turning point in the pacific war. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
After a month of fighting, the Germans blew up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signaling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto. Then under the command of SS general Juergen stroop, the Germans began the final destruction of the ghetto and the deportation of the remaining Jews. Many Jews across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place during the early stages of the Italian campaign of world war II. North Africa secured and Sicily, the stepping stone conquered the allied forces which launched their invasion on Italy. it began with the British forces skipping across the strait of messina to Calabria. -
D-Day Normandy Invasion
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6th June 1944 of the allied invasion of Normandy in operation overlord during world war ii. Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi occupied France. The allied landings on the Normandy beaches marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north west Europe from German occupation. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, Germans launched the last major offensive of the war, operation mist, also known as the Ardennes offensive and the battle of bulge, as an attempt to push the allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. It brought the end of the German army and the Nazi reign, and also pro founded effects it had on soldiers who fought in the ice ardennes. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Major battle in which the united states marine corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the imperial Japanese army. One-third of all the marine losses during the world war II happened a Iwo Jima, one of the largest engagement of the war in which allies forced suffrage for more casualties than their Japanese counterparts. -
Battle of Okinawa
Three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the far east. It was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war.Code named operation iceberg, was a major battle of the pacific war fought on the island of Okinawa by united states marine and army forces against the imperial Japanese army. -
VE Day
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. Hitler then killed himself and Nazi Germany then declared to end the war. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Harry s. Truman, warned but 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. -
VJ Day
Victory over japan day is the day on which imperial japan surrendered in world war ii, in effect ending the war. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of world war II.
