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used a scuffle between China in Japanese troops at the Marco polo Bridge as a pretext to launch an invasion of northern China.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_war.htm
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The fighting moved to the south in August when the Japanese attacked Shanghai and pursued the retreating Chinese army up the Yangtze valley to the national capital at Nanking. The Japanese began their attack on that city early in December, forcing its surrender on December 13. Then the horror began.http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nanking.htm
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had bega.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland
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Germans unleashed their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium.http://www.2worldwar2.com/blitzkrieg.htm
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Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. 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.
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hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor
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Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477
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Bombing of Hamburg.
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The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.The wake of the allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. http://www.army.mil/botb/
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Had been under discussion within the Allied Command . The proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.
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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.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
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Victory in Europe Day,to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It then marked the end of World War II in Europe.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
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Victory over Japan Day ,Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II. September second The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
