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Japan invades China
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced the Kuomintang policy of resistance against Japan at Lushan.The Chinese-Japanese dispute in July 1931.In 1931, Japan, eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and seeing her obvious weakness, invaded and occupied Manchuria.Initially the Japanese scored major victories, such as the Shanghai, and by the end of 1937 captured the Chinese capital of Nanking. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation. -
Non-aggression pact
On August 23, 1939- shortly before world war II (1939-45) broke out in Europe- enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union suprised the world by signing the german soviet non aggression pact in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. With Europe on the brink of another major war. -
Germany invades Poland
Poland was attacked by Germany on september 1 1939. The german attack was code-named operations white(fall weiss). The attack on Poland started at 04.45 hours when Blitzkrieg Fore through the polish military and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the germans and the country was very occupied. -
Blitzkrieg
The strategy, operational methods and tactics of the German Army and Luftwaffe have often. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery.Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than 2years by relying on military tactics. -
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Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain was an air campaign waged by German air force. Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most substained aerial bombing campaign to that date. By preventing Germany from gaining air superiority, the british forced to postpone and eventually cancel operation sea lion. -
Lend lease Act
In July 1940, after Britain had substained the loss of the 11 destroyers to the German Navy over a 10 day period, newly elected British prime minister Winston Churchill requested help from president Roosevelt. As a result, a major foreign policy debate erupted over whether the united states should aid great Britain or maintain strict neutrality. -
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu,Hawaii. -
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Operation Barbarossa
It was a code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the soviet union dquring world war II commercing on 22 June 1941. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the axis powers invaded soviet Russia along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front, making it the largest invasion in the history of warfare.The germans would never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic soviet-german front. Aninuasion of Russia was authorized by Hitler on Dec.18 1940. -
Bataan Death March
Bataan marchers donated 21,679 lbs of food at the 26th Annual Bataan Memorial Death March.The Japanese immediately began to march some 76,000 prisoners.A terrible silence settled over Bataan about noon on April 9.The Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II.Over 77,000 American and Filipino troops were to become victims of one of the most brutal episodes in the Pacific War. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The Japanese threw almost the entire Imperial Fleet into the battle.The Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, must be considered one of the most decisive battles of World War Two. Japanese political leadership and senior military commanders were stung by the Doolittle Raid of April, 1942 when sixteen U.S. aircraft bombed Tokyo. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in which the Nazi Germany and its allies fought for the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingrad on the Eastern boundary of Europe. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in late summer 1942 using the 6th army and elements of the 4th panzer army. The axis forces on the flanks were overrun and the 6th army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were. -
D-Day
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on 6 June 1944.Seventy years ago, the great war photographer joined the first slaughterhouse wave of D-day, recording W.W. II's pivotal battle in 11 historic images of blur and grit. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was a major german offensive campaign launched through the densley forested region of wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the western front towards the end of World War II. The suprise attack caught the allied forcs completly off guard. The battle also severly depleted Germany's armored forces on the western from which Germany was largely unable to replace. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Was a major battle in which the United States armed forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese imperial army during World War II. The american inavasion, designated operation detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese main islands. Iwo Jima was also the only battle by the U.S. Marine Corps in which the american casualities exceeded the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times. -
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa.The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945. The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East.The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific.The Battle of Okinawa has been called the largest sea-land-air battle in history. Its also the last battle of the Pacific -
V-E Day
V-E Day was a public holiday it was to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The defeat of Germany celebrations erupted throughout the world. In the United Kingdom, more than one million people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European parts of the war. Later that day on V-E Day Truman said that the victory made it his most enjoyable birthday. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Hiroshima was the primary target of the first atomic bomb mission. The mission went smoothly in every respect. Hiroshima, Japanese city, situated some 8M km. (500 mi.) from Tokyo, on which the first operational atomic bomb was dropped. -
V-J Day
The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri.United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing. -
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Warsaw Pact
The warsaw treaty organization was a political and military alliance established on may 14, 1955 between the sonet union and several eastern Europe countries. The soviet union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the noth atlantic. Treaty organizations (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the united states, canada and western european nations in 1949. The warsaw pact supplemented existing agreements. The warsaw pact officially disbanded in March and July of 1991.