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German's WOrkers party
hitler joined this party that promoted German Nationalist and anti- semitism. -
Speeches and more speeches
Hitler made speeches about the unemployment, hunger, and blamed every that happened to the Jewish people. He also explained how to solve employment problems as well as hunger issue in Germany. This created hope to the German people that hunger and unemployment would be solved by Hitler. -
Claims leaderships!
Hitler became leader of the party and renamed it " Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. -
My struggles
Hitler and his followers tried to take over the the government of Bavaria. Failed to do it and Hitler was sentence to jail for 5 years for treason. wrote a wonderful book called " My Struggles" in prison. only spending less then a year, Hitler was released from prison when the German people made him a national figure. He tried to rebuild the Nazi party and tried to gain power in elections. -
Japanese Invasion of china
In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army (which had just executed a Japanese spy). The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria.By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria, and set up a Japanese-controlled state called Manchuk. Thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians had been killed by the modern but ruthless Japanese army. -
Rape of Nanking
In late 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanking (or Nanjing). The horrific events are known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, as between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanking, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks -
operation 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. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
German invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people. -
The Battle of Britain (London Blitz)
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. -
miracle of Dunkirk
338,000 troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. Initially it was estimated that just 45,000 men could be evacuated in 48 hours. Instead the operation was to become the biggest evacuation in military history. a stunning great escape that helped Britain avoid defeat in the Second World War. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies -
D-Day Invasions
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
