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Battle Of Midway
The battle of midway took place 6 months after pearl harbor.in advancing in breaking codes they figured out a way to counter japans ambush. This led to the turning point of the pacific campaign, which allowed the U.S. and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Raping of Nanking
This massacre went on for 6 weeks. the imperial japanese soldiers killed around 40,000 to 300,000chinese civilians. This perpatrated widespread rape and looting. -
Germanys invasion of Poland
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-polandat 4:45, about 1.5 million German troops invaded poland all along the 1,750 mile border. Hitler belived this would give the germans more "living space". He wanted to conlonize the territory and the native slavs would be inslaved. Germany signed a nonagression pact witht the soviet union, The enimies agreed to diving poland with the germans. -
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German Blitzberg
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkriegthe (lighting war). The Blitzberg was a military tatic the german army used, which meant the blitzberg relied on moblie forces and firepower, and infantry. The germans first used this tatic on the lighting war, when germamy invaded the polish. Left polnad destroyed. -
German Blitzkrieg
They were military tactics designed to disorganize enemy forces through mobile forces and concentrated fire power. They succesfully took over belgium, the netherlands, and france.this was refered to as gthe lightning war and prevented repetioion of the attritional deadlock of WWI -
Operation Barbarossa
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossaOperation Barbarbossa was a code name for the german invasion on the soviet union during the world war II. 3 groups of armys and # thousand tanks invaded the sovet union. The nazi germans got defeated and this was a major turning point in world war II. -
Pear Harbor
Japanese fightewr planes attacked american naval base in pearl harbor. The japanese destroyed 20 amercan naval bases. Over 2000 american soldiers died in pearl harbor. then soon after that franklin rosavelt asked congresss to declare war on japan. -
Battle Death March
Surviving american and filippino troops were marched 70 miles to a prision camp in jan fernando. Many died in the processs due to the lack of nutritionsp they surrenderedto the japanese. The japanese commited random acts of killing ans beatingsto show their superioriority in asia. -
Dropping Of the Tomic Bomb
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki. Then the japanese governament surrendered to the U.S.and its allies. This was the mark of the U.S,. being the first ans only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime.the dropping of the atomic bomb on japan marked the end of WWII. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
ghettoOn January 18th, 1943, Germans soldiers intended on importing 70,000-80,000 Jews from ghettos to forced labor camps; in April the plans quickly changed from transportation to liquidation of the ghettos. The Germans intended to move o with their plans on exterminating the Jews by transporting them into concentrations camps. Once the Jews were transporated, few Jews remained in the ruins of the ghettos and were later liberated by the Polish Home Army in 1944. -
Tehran Conference
the topicThe Tehran Conference was a meeting between President Franklin Roosevelt, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran and Iran. They coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and discuss post WWII era to discuss and organize military strategies. The effects/impact was stopping Germany from advancing on Europe. -
D-Day
d-dayOn June 6,1944, moe than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile heavily-fortified French coastline; General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade. This was a battle to stop the Nazi's at the beaches of Normandy, France. Ultimately, the Allied forces stopped the Nazi's advancements on Europe. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps 1945
concentration campsThe Soviet Union began to freeing Jews from their concentration/death camps such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, etc. The Jews were dying due to death camps by either working to death, hunger, a gun, disease, etc, and while the Allied forces gained the upperhand ove the Nazi's, the Soviets used suprise attacks to liberate the concentration camps. With the liberation of the concentration camps, the Jews population was saved and continue to prosper with first hand stories of what happened. -
Battle of the Bulge
In the morning of december 16, 1944 over 200,000 german troops invaded the Ardennes Forest. This happend on D-day. Hitlers goal of this all was to split the Allied forces. He did not suceed. -
Battle Of iWO jIma
This was part of the plan by the U.S. to end war against japan. The U.S. took control of the island and captured the last of the japanese forces. The battle lasted 36 daysand costed the U.S. over 6,000 lives. America fought to take over iwo jima because of the proximityto japans major islands. -
VE Day
ve dayVE Day was a time of celebration for the United States and Great Britain because German Nazis finally surrendered; ending the Second World War. The Germans surrendered to the Soviets due to a large amount of Nazi soilders dying, forcing them to sign surrender documents. After the war, France, G.B., Russia, and the U.S. began to divid German territory among the four nations. -
Battle of Okinawa
battleThe Battle of Okinawa was the biggest and last Pacific island Baatles of WWII which involved 287,000 U.S. Tenth Army troops against 130,000 Japenese soildiers. The objectives of the Americans was to destroy Japan's merchant fleet and use airstrips in the region to launch bombing raids on Japan's industrial heartland. The result of this battle was the Japanese losing 107,000 and having 7,400 take prisoner and the Americans lost 7,373 men and 32,056 were wounded. -
Potsdam Conference
potsdam conferenceJuly 17th of 1945, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and the new U.S. President Harry Truman were to discuss and negotiate the terms for the end of WWII in Potsdam, Germany. The main reason why this was called for was to decide what they wanted to do Germany. Despite numerous disagreements the Allied forces agreed to the demilitarized and disarmed Germany under four zones occupied by the Allied forces
