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Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese Invasion of China was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937 to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support. -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France also known as the Fall of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu Hawaii on Sunday morning December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States formal entry into World War II the next day. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20th 1942 -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point Bagac Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell Capas Tarlac via San Fernando Pampanga where the prisoners were loaded onto trains -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942 only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Operation Gomorrah
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and public buildings. As a large city and industrial center, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil supplies were attacked throughout the war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Allied Invasion of Paris
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. -
Operation Thunderclap
Thunderclap was shelved and never happened. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed many of them key German people which would shatter German morale. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday June 6 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. It is often referred to as D-Day it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive took place January 25 1945, and was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day generally known as VE Day was celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
President Harry S. Truman ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945 the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II in effect bringing the war to an end.
