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Japanese Invades China
The Japanese and Chinese were to set up a negotiation but the Japanese didn't want it. Later that day the Japanese went to the Marco Polo bridge. The Chinese began to open fire on Japanese at the bridge. Later the Japanese surrounded a city and the Chinese began to open fire again. -
Germany invades Poland
This was the start of WWII. Hitler invade Poland. He did wage war which would later become the blitzkrieg strategy. The polish army didn’t have enough resources. In the end they signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov nonaggression Pact. -
Germany blitzkrieg
The gem blitzkrieg means lightning war. It was a military plan that was meant to k ep enemy forces disorganized. They used it once and it was successful. They then proceeded to do it in Belgium, Poland, Netherlands and France. It also concentrated on fire power. -
Fall of Paris
Winston Churchill tried to convince the French government that the U.S was going to send aid to France. Paul Reynaud telegrammed to Roosevelt about sending aid. By the time the Germans arrived 2 million people have already fled. The Germans arrested and spied on the remaining people who were in France. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler sent his armies off to the Soviet Union thousands of tanks smashed through the border on to soviet territory. Germany bombs Stalingrad. Barbarossa was a turning point for the Germans because the underestimated the Soviet Union and caused the Germans to fight a two front war. They went to take over and get rid of the Jews. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese did a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor leaving 1143 wounded and 2335 dead. Pearl Harbor was just off the coast of Honolulu. The United States declared war a few hours after which caused the U.S to be added into the war. -
Battle of midway
This happened 6 months after Pearl Harbor. The U.S attached Japanese fleets while they were refueling their planes on boats. They sank all of the Japanese ships leaving 2/3 of the pilots of the Japanese dead. The U.S the flew to Tokyo. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet Union slowed down the German forces even though they lost more that 250,000 men. The city wasn’t evacuated so most of the people were captured. There were dozens of air strikes on the city. About 100,000 German soldiers were captured. The Germans had a disadvantage fighting in the winter of the Soviet Union. Hitler refused to surrender even though his troops were leaving the cold. -
Wannsee conference
A meeting between two leaders to plan to send/exile the Jews to Madagascar. People who survived the gas chambers would be "Treated Accordingly". They didn't utter the word extermination at all during the conference. Months later they had gas vans in Poland which were killing thousands of people became the solution to killing large groups of people. -
Allied invasion of italy
Mussolini envisioned Italy being a new Roman Empire than being a Fascist country. People were thinking of overthrowing Mussolini but with the strong German forces they didn't do it. They started their conquest to take over Sicily. Mussolini was forced to resign by the Fascist Grand Council and was later arrested.In October the Badoglio government declared war on Germany but the allied advanced into Italy proved to be costly. Rome fell in June of 1944. In 1945 a new major offensive began. -
operation Gomorrah
The British flew over Germany and dropped more than 2,000 bombs. The British tricked the Germans with metal strips on the bombs to make it look like it was a bunch of planes. More than 8,000 tons of bombas were dropped over Hamburg -
D-day
Americans, Canadians and Europeans landed on Utah beach in Normandy. The destroyed bridges which had the Germans take longer detours which helped protect advancing troops. In May they surrendered but Hitler committed suicide a week earlier. -
Liberation of concentration camp
Allies released people from concentration camps while heading to Europe. The nazis left them there to starve. They were basically trapped inside the camps left for dead. -
VE Day
Th germans surrendered. Some tried to escape n a mass exodus but were caught by Soviet soldiers and imprisoned. British POW were released and sent back to Great Britain. -
Battle of the bulge
Hitler planned to split the allied armies by doing a surprise Blitzkrieg. The allies formed a line which looked like a bulge giving this battle that title. 3 German armies launched a deadly and desperate battle of the war in the poorly roaded area of Ardennes. Hitler's army ran out fuel causing a fatal ambition to draw allies from the west. -
operation thunderclap
The U.S. and England bombed Dresden, Germany. This was a result of the Yalta conference that month. More than 3,400 tons of bombs were dropped on the city. Hospitals could not handle the amount of people coming into the hospital sick or injured. The Germans were fighting the USSR at the time and this weakened them. The main reason that the city was bombed was because it was an official communication area for the Germans. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American forces invaded the island which is just off the coast of Japan. 7,200 casualties were reported. The beaches were soft due to volcano ash making it really hard for the Americans to walk on it. With that opportunity Japan decided to go and attack them resulting in many casualties. U.S Marines captured Mount Suribachi. -
Battle of Okinawa
This was the last major battle of WWII. It happened on Easter Sunday. They expected the battle to be a massacre worse than D-Day. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B-29 dropped the worlds first atomic bomb over Japan. It kill 80,000 people on the spot only to kill tens of thousands more due to radiation exposure. They used a more powerful bomd for Nagasaki and it produced a 22-kiloton blast. It was estimated that 2.6 square miles were destroyed. 9 days later VJ-Day happened. -
VJ Day
Also know as victory in Japan day. They surrendered on the U.S.S Missouri. Japan actually announced it on August 14th of that year but didn't do the actual signing of the paper till a month later. It was several months after the Nazi's surrendered.
