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German Blitzkrieg
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
A 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. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, -
Japanese invasion of China
https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Sino-Japanese-War
a conflict broke out when China started a full-scale resistance to an expansion of Japanese influence in its territory The war, may be divided into three phases: a period of rapid Japanese advance until the end of 1938, a period of virtual stalemate until 1944, and the final period when Allied counterattacks, principally in Pacific and on Japan’s home islands, brought on Japan’s surrender. -
Rape of Nanking
https://www.history.com/topics/nanjing-massacre
first troops of Japan’s Central China Army, commanded by General Matsui Iwane, entered city. Even before their arrival, word had begun spreading of the numerous atrocities that had be committed on the way through China, including killing contests and pillaging. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I -
Fall of Paris
http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/06/22/the-fall-of-france-summary/
Germans rendered the Maginot Line obsolete within a morning by merely skirting round the north of it, through the Ardennes forest. Because of its rugged terrain, the French considered the forest impassable. -
Operation Barbarossa
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of Soviet Union: three great army groups with over 3 million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and 3 thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
more then 2,400 people had died during the attack. -
Wannsee Conference
https://www.britannica.com/event/Wannsee-Conference
meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” -
Battle of Midway
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
6 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. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007745
Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
D-Day, some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. Invasion one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-leyte-gulf
Japanese sought converge 3 naval forces on Leyte Gulf, and successfully diverted the U.S. 3rd Fleet with a decoy. At the Suriago Strait, the U.S. Seventh Fleet destroyed one of the Japanese forces and forced a second one to withdraw. The third successfully traversed the San Bernadino -
Battle of the Bulge
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Hitler had attempted to split the Allied groups.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
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
Iwo Jima had been defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. -
Liberation of concentration camps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml
The Allies had prevented a typhus epidemic by burning down the Belsen concentration camp, they also destroyed a monument to man's inhumanity to man. Stephen A Hart charts the arrival of a liberating army at what seemed like a hell on earth. -
VE Day
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
VC Day stands for Victory In Europe. -
The Battle of Okinawa
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On April 1, 1945—Easter Sunday—the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for final push to
Japan. The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
Truman being warned by some of his advisers about having any attempt of invading Japan wouldn't end well with the Americas. -
VJ Day
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day this was also known as "Vitoryover Japan Day". Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Bataan Death March
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
Survivors had been taken by a rail from San Fernando.
