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Mao Zedong heads the Long March
In 1933, Jiang gathered army of at least 700,000 men.
Jiang’s army surrounded Communists’ mountain stronghold
Chinese Communist Party was outnumbered and realized about to be defeated. 100,000 Communist forces fled and began Long March. The Long March was a 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-5 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi’s Nationalist forces. ⅔ died from hunger, cold, exposure & battle wounds. -
Japanese invasion of China (1937)
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weir in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is an Anglicized term describing a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks; and once in the enemy's territory, proceeds to dislocate them using speed and surprise, and then encircle them -
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee; in training, doctrine, and fighting ability, the forces invading Russia . -
Pearl Harbor (1941)
on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declar -
Wannsee Conference (1942
Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit “as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.” -
Battle of Midway (1942)
The Japanese formulated a plan to sneak up on the U.S. forces. They hoped to trap a number of the U.S. aircraft carriers in a bad situation where they could destroy them. However, American code breakers had intercepted a number of Japanese transmissions. The Americans knew the Japanese plans and prepared their own trap for the Japanese. -
Operation Gomorrah (1943)
Operation Gomorrah was an aerial bombing that occurred in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. The orders for Operation Gomorrah were given on May 27, 1943. The attack started on the night of July 24, 1943, and continued until August 3. Operation Gomorrah destroyed a significant amount of the city of Hamburg, leaving over 1 million civilians homeless and killing 40,000-50,000 residents. Over two-thirds of Hamburg's population fled the city immediately after the raids started. -
Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. One of the ironies of the war, is that the German Sixth Army need not have got entangled in Stanlingrad. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
The Battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. It was codenamed "Operation Overlord" and began on June 6, 1944 when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on beaches along the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest marine military assaults in history. After D-day, all of northern France had been liberated & soon after the Allies defeated the Germans. -
Operation Thunderclap
Allied strategic bombing raid against the German city of Dresden. The immediate controversy about the raid contributed to the end of Allied strategic bombing. On February, 8 Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) instructed RAF Bomber Command and the U.S. Strategic Air Forces to attack Dresden because of its importance to movements of military forces on the Eastern Front. The casualty figures reported by German fire and police services ranged between 25,000 and 35,000 dead. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
This was an amphibious invasion by three U.S. marine divisions who landed on the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, & tunnels. Despite the harsh conditions, the marines wiped out the defending army after a month of fighting. The battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory. -
Battle of Okinawa (1945)
The Battle of Okinawa was the last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. The Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 soldiers from the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 troops of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. By the end of the 82-day raid, apan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 injured, including 14,000 dead -
VE Day (1945)
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazis. V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself. He said “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.” -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
Potsdam Declaration (1945)
The conferees discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. That task was left to a Council of Foreign Ministers. The chief concerns of the Big Three, their foreign ministers, and their staffs were the immediate administration of defeated Germany, the demarcation of the boundaries of Poland, the occupation of Austria, the definition of the Soviet Union’s role in eastern Europe, the determination of reparations -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
Around 8:15 a.m. a US bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later killing 40,000 more people. The dropping of the bombs remains the only nuclear attack in history. These attacks occured by executive order of US President HarryTruman. In the months following the attack, roughly 100,000 more people died slow, horrendous deaths as a result of radiation poisoning. -
VJ Day (1945)
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on August 14, 1945 end in WW II. This is now known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan Day. Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to an end. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
he Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. Twitter Google Its objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously–in September 1870, August 1914, and May 1940.
