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The Holocaust
The mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted. Hitler’s final solution known as the Holocaust came from under the cover of world war. -
Japan Invades China
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Munich Conference
The common goal was to avoid confrontation and maintain the collective security. Hitler knows that the Allies were trying their hardest to avoid war. He exploited this fact and asked for more and more. Hitler wanted the Sudetenland because he wanted more land and more citizens for his potential army. -
Non-Agression Pact
On August 23, 1939 shortly before World War II broke out in Europe, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. The two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule over Poland. This is when World War II had begun. -
Blitzkrieg
A German military tactic called blitzkrieg, also know "lighting war" is a designed to create disorganization among enemy forces. Successful execution results in short military campaigns. Which preserves human lives. -
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Battle of the Britain
German and British air forces raced to the skies over the United Kingdom. the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countries. The act allowed the United States to support its war interests without being involve in battle. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler sent his armies in a massive attack of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered from the North Cape to the Black Sea, and a distance of two thousand miles. The forces invading Russia represented the finest army to fight in the twentieth century. -
Pearle Harbor
Before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American's naval base at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American's 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. -
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan. -
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Battle of the Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The Germans advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history. With civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily guarded coast of France’s Normandy region. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
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Battle of the Bulge
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg attack. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles tolower the German advance. 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 where the name was given by. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by nearly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and attacked by three U.S. marine divisions. They fought from a sequence of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficult conditions, the marines wiped out the enemy forces after a month of fighting. -
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Battle of Okinawa
The battle of okinawa was codenamed Operation Iceberg. The battle was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. This battle took place in the Pacific theatre during World War II. -
V-E Day
In 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the Germans had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
The Bombing of Hisroshima/Nagasaki
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V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. -
Warsaw Pact
On May 15, 1955, representatives of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania meeting in Warsaw, Poland, signed the multilateral Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and on Mutual Assistance. The treaty specified that relations among the member countries would consist of mutual noninterference in domestic matters and independence of each country.