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Japanese invasion of China
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945.Chinese and Japanese troops exchanged fire in the vicinity of the Lugou (or Marco Polo) bridge, a crucial access-route to Beijing. -
Germany’s invasion of Poland
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement that terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities in the east on 16 September. -
Fall of Paris
The German plan for the battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb also know as Case Yellow, German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the German threat. The war had ended on June 25, 1940 -
German Blitzkrieg
Through the employment of combined arms in maneuver warfare, blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for it to respond to the continuously changing front and defeating it in a decisive Vernichtungsschlacht also known as battle of annihilation. -
Pearl Harbor
It is also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Battle of Midway
This is known as the turning point of the Pacific War.The operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.After Midway and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its losses in materiel and men. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th army group.Following the defeat of the Axis Powers in North Africa in May 1943, there was disagreement between the Allies as to what the next step should be. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in particular wanted to invade Italy. -
D-Day
People normally think of it as the largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. They were planning this opertion since 1943. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet forces are the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching the Majdanek camp near Lublin, PolandThe camp staff sets fire to the large crematorium at Majdanek, but because of the hasty evacuation the gas chambers are left standing.If someone got sick the guards have to kill the prisoners, because they know they will no longer be strong enough to work. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.After their heavy losses incurred in the battle, the strategic value of the island became controversial. -
Battle of Okinawa
Codenamed Operation Iceberg, was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific war.The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel". The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships an -
VE Day
Also known as Victory in Europe Day, a holiday celebrate to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of it's armed forces. This marked the end of World War II in Europe. On 30 April, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin. Germany's surrender, therefore, was authorised by his successor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Some of President Harry S. Truman 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. Ther American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
VJ Day
The news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked many celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
