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Japanese Invasion of China
Second Sino-Japanese War was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before and during World War II. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily to secure its vast raw material reserves and other resources. At the same time, the rising tide of Chinese nationalism and notions of self determination stoked the coals of war. -
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World War 2 Timeline
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Rape of Nanking
Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned, In what became known as the Rape of Nanking butchered around 150,000 male war prisoners, also an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
September Campaign. Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland. 1.5 million German troops invade Poland
Bombed Polish airfields, warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea, Hitler claimed it was a defensive action, Britain and France declared war on germany starting World War 2 -
German Blitzkrieg
Military tactic used to create psychological shock and disorganization in enemy forces through surprise, speed, and superiority in firepower it is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany during World War II even though numerous combatants used its techniques in that war. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. They were strong at it's peak. But they failed and had to surrender this resulted in 2 million casualties. This was the crucial turning point in the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 17 Japanese fighter plane attacked Pearl Harbor for two hours and destroyed 20 naval vessels, 300 or more airplanes, also led to the death of 2,000 soldiers and wound per around 1,000 soldiers. This attract led to America declaring war on Japan. -
Creation of The United Nations
January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations. It was also to avoid Woodrow Wilson’s mistakes in selling the League of Nations to the Senate.
Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter. -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking 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." The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder. -
Battle of Midway
6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Major advances in code breaking. Inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. This allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Operation Gomorrah
The bombing of Germany from Britain were they dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg and around 17,000 bombers dropped over 9,000 tons of explosives which destroyed 280,000 buildings and along with that killed more than than 30,000 people. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. In late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe -
Battle of the Bulge
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. Despite Germany’s historical penchant for mounting counteroffensives when things looked darkest, the Allies’ leadership miscalculated and left the Ardennes lightly defended by only two inexperienced and two battered American divisions. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. 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. -
Operation Thunderclap
It was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport. Bomb a lot of germanys cities disrupting the rear areas of the German Eastern Front lines, to aid the Soviet advance -
Battle of Iwo Jima; Battle of Okinawa
It was the first major battle of World War II to take place on Japanese homeland. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi’s
German troops throughout europe laid down their arms a lot were captured. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II in total the bombs killed over 160,000 people. -
VJ Day
August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day. It brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close -
Fate of Dictators
Hitler killed himself on April 30th in 1945 while in one of his bunker. Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. -
Creation of NATO
It was primarily a security pact, with Article 5 stating that a military attack against any of the signatories would be considered an attack against them all. Further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form NATO. The Soviet Union and other Communist nations in Eastern Europe made a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
