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Japanese Invasion of China 1937
a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
~The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aimed at expanding its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves and other economic resources in the area, particularly food and labour -
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
a warfare method where the attacks are short andcome about by surprise. -
Germans invade Polland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
Fall of France
German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941 drivin by adolf hitler -
Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. This attack brought the us into WW2 -
Wannsee Conference
a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, the purpose of the meeting was to ensure cooperation of admins administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question(whether jews should be deported from polland and murdered.) -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The uprising started on 19 April when the Ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who then ordered the burning of the Ghetto, block by block, ending on 16 May. 13,000 Jews died, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated. German casualties are not known, but were not more than 300. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. -
Operation Gomorrah
a campaign of air raids beginning 24 July 1943 and lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Neptune.The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Operation Thunderclap
This was a planned attack that never actually happend. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel. -
Battle of the Bulge
The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front -
Battle of Iwo Jima
battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields -
Battle of Okinawa
Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). -
VE Day
A celebrated holiday 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
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.On August 6, 1945, a five-ton bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
news of Japans surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.