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Japanese Attack China
Japan attacks eastern china and manchuria for military dominance, so they attacked to grow there army. This Attack led to the 2nd Sino-japanese war. -
Spanish Civil war
The people in spain did not like the old order and ran off the king of spain, the people set up an republic and did not like the new reforms which led to the leftists trying for change and the conservatives wanting to stay the same. Eventually this led to war. -
Germany Invades Poland
The nazis attacked poland to divide land with Stalin, but doing this would lead to Britain and France to declare war on Germany. -
The Blitz
The blitz in Germany improved the tanks,troops, and the air force for germany, which caused germany to be a near unstoppable force. -
Op Barbossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups 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. -
Pearl Harbor
For Japan to expand its territory they needed to stop the US. They were taking the pacific islands to stop the US from attacking them, to do so they attacked pearl harbor to try to cripple the US fleet. The operation was a slight success. -
Wake Island
The Attack of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island were simultaneous and Wake Island finished on December 23, 1941. The surrender was of American troops to those of Japan. The battle was for a small island in Central Pacific with the Marines and civilians of the island defending against invaders from Japan.
It was a site for a submarine and air base for the U.S. that was partially completed. Just a few hours before the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941 Japan hit the island with 36 bo -
Bataan Death March
The Japanese had taken control of the Philippines to hold the US back, and in the midst of it, the Jap’s pushed farther into the philippines killing several hundred US Soldiers, 10,000 filipinos during a 65 mile march. Otherwise known as the Bataan Death March. -
Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
El Almein
The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. Deploying a far larger contingent of soldiers and tanks than the opposition, British commander Bernard Law Montgomery launched an infantry attack at El Alamein on Oct. 23, 1942. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returned to battle from illness and tried to halt the tide, but the British advantage in personnel and artillery proved too overwhelming. Aft -
Battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
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 fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific -
Death of Mussolini
As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country.
He and his mistress made it to the Swiss border, only to discover that the guar