World War two timeline

  • Japanese invasion of China

    Japanese invasion of China
    The first sino-japanese war of 1849-95.It was between the Republic of japan from 1937 to 1945China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germanyand the Soviet Union, the British Empire and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. also The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th centur
  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Germany's invasion of Poland
    The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland .The alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany,In the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
  • German Blitzkrieg

    German Blitzkrieg
    Blitzkrieg is an anglicised term,describing a method of warfare, whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and the motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support,and it breaks through the opponent's line of defense by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders,and using speed to surprise to encircle them.Through the employment of combined arms in maneuver warf.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,And the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters,and Operation Z during planning was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    soners were stripped of their weapons and valuables, and told to march to Balanga, the capital of Bataan. Some were beaten, bayoneted, and mistreated. And the first major atrocity occurred when between 350 or 400 Filipino officers the NCOs were summarily executed near the Pantingan river after they had to surrendered.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.Between 3 or 7, June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated the attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflic
  • Allied Invasion of Italy

    Allied Invasion of Italy
    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II.and the 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,was particular wanted to invade Italy, which in November 1942 he called "the soft underbelly of the axis"
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception,or codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings.Weather on D-Day was far from ideal, but postponing would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days in each month were in.
  • Liberation of concentration camps

    Liberation of concentration camps
    Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered the Auschwitz and there they found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) 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. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields including the South Field or the Central Field to provide staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg,was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself.The 82-day-long battle lasted from 1 April until 22 June 1945 After a long time the allies was to approaching japan.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    Victory in Europe Day, generally knowns as VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 and to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.and It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
  • Dropping of the atomic bombs

    Dropping of the atomic bombs
    President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties,In ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a end. On August 6, 1945, in the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    August 15, 1945, the news of the surrender was announced to the world.Sparked spontaneous 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 the VJ Day.