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Japanese invasion of China
When the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 the Second Sino-Japanese War started. The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It followed the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95. -
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German Blitzkrieg
A blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. The blitzkrieg was also used by German commander Erwin Rommel during the North African campaign of World War II, and adopted by U.S. General George Patton for his army’s European operations. -
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Germany's invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi. -
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Operation Barbarossa
In the two years leading up to the invasion, the two countries signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. The actual invasion began on 22 June 1941. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base. -
Wannsee Conference
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Wannsee Conference
On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS. The minutes of that meeting have been preserved but were edited by Heydrich substituting the coded language Nazis. "Instead of emigration, there is now a further possible solution to which the Führer has already signified his consent" -
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Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare. This was a focus of RAF Bomber Command switched to Hamburg it had been on the Ruhr. -
D-Day
D-day was a battle where the Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944. The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be implemented in coordination with a Soviet advance.
