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Japanese invasion of China
Japanese claimed they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. -
German Blitzkrieg
A German term for "Lightning War". Blitzkrieg is a Military Tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated Firepower. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Germany-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was partioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
Operation Barboarossa
Under the Codename Operation Barbarossa Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22,1941 in the largest German military operation. -
Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike c=onducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 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 -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
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. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, fought over the winter months of 1944 ? 1945, was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
One-third of all Marine losses during World War II happened at Iwo Jima; it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater -
Battle of Okinawa
The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long ...... We had the Battle of Okinawa, in which the exact opposite happened. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap' had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the ... forces moving west into Germany, and the priority for Thunderclap moved up the timetable of bombing. -
VE Day (1945)
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
-Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people -
-VJ Day (1945)
On this day in History, Victory in Europe on May 08, 1945. Learn more about what happened today on History