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Japanese invasion of china
ON JULY 7, 1937 a clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China.When this clash was followed by indications ofintensified military activity on the part of Japan, Secretary ofState Hull urged upon the Japanese Government a policy ofselfrestraint.He said that a first-class power like Japan not only could afford toexercise general self-restraint but that in the long runit was far better that this should characterize the attitude and policy of the Japanese Government -
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which was launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. The operation was driven by an ideological desire to conquer the Western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war-effort, to seize the oil reserves in the Caucasus and the agricultural resources throughout the Soviet territories. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan,and several days later, on December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
The purpose of the conference, called by the director of the Reich Main Security Office SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the Final Solution to the Jewish question, -
German Blitzkrieg
Student described it as ideas that "naturally emerged from the existing circumstances" as a response to operational challenges.The Wehrmacht never officially adopted it as a concept or doctrine.In 2005, the historian Karl-Heinz Frieser summarized blitzkrieg as the result of German commanders using the latest technology in the most beneficial way according to traditional military principles and employing "the right units in the right place at the right time". -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah, created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city.The unusually warm weather and good conditions meant that the bombing was highly concentrated around the intended targetsand also created a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air whichcreated a 460 meter high tornado of fire, a totally unexpected effect. -
D-Day
The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. -
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Battle of the Bulge
As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battles name. 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. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. There were rumours circulating in the city that it had been deliberately spared from the bombing for some reason, perhaps because the Allies wanted to keep one undamaged city as a new administrative centre when they occupied Germany. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment . The battle was marked by changes in Japanese defense tactics troops no longer defended at the beach line but rather concentrated inland -
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Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. In conjunction with this, the Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks by planes on one-way suicide missions; the Japanese also sent their last big battleship, the Yamato, on a similar mission with a few escorts. -
VE day
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire.The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before the germans -
Dropping Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II , an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Japans devastating surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, capped a decade of deteriorating relations between Japan and the United States and led to an immediate U.S. declaration of war the following day.
