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The Holocaust
The Holocaust is where six million Jews were killed ny Nazi regime and its collaborators. Jewish resistance to the Nazis occurred throughout the Holocaust. -
Japan invades China
When Japan invaded China, Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chines troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Japan came up against little organised resistance. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of czechos lovakia along the country's borders. -
Non-Aggression Pact
The Non-Aggression Pact is a treaty between two or more states/countries where the signatories promise not to engage in military action against each other. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland is also known as the September Campaign, of the 1939 Defensive war in Poland. Decisive Axis and Soviet Victory Beginning of World War II. 16,343 Germans killed 3,500 missing, and 30,300 wounded. 37 Slovakias killed, 11 missing, and 114 wounded. 1,475 Soviets killed or missing, 2,383 wounded, and 5,327 killed, missing and wounded. 66,000 Polankilled, 133,700 wounded, and casualties. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile force and locally concentrated firepower. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the second world war air campaign waged by German Air Force, coastal shipping convoys and shipping centers. Portsmouth were one of the main targets but then a month later Luftwaffe changed its attacks on Royal Air Force airfields. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act, "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United Statees". Under this Act America supplied Free Franch, Great Britin, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations. America supplied food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
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Operation Barbarossa
The Operation Barbarossa was a cold name for Nazi Germany's invation of the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet victory, despite huge losses in men, materiel, and landmass. Axis failed to defeat the Soviet Union lead to thr opening of the Eastern Front. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is an Island located in Hawaii territory. Japamese Naval did a surprise military strike. 2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 wounded. -
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Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March is when Filipino and AMerican prisoners or war had to walk from Mariveles corregidor to camp O'Donnell. Around 60,000-80,000 prisoners walked, about 2,500-10,000 Filipinos died and 100-650 Americans died. -
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a cruacil and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. This war was Japan's naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was one of the major battles during world war II, which Nazi Germany and their allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. This battle is considered the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. Soviet Union won the battle, as a result Axis forces declined on the Eastern front. -
D-Day
D-Day is the day that landing operations of the Allied invation of Normandy in operation overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major offensive campign for germany. This battle was launched through the densely forested. Ardennes rejion of Wallonia in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Franch. This battle was held on the Weastern Front towards the end of the war in world war II in Europe. Eric Von Monstein recaptured the important harbor of Antwerp whiched caught the Allied forces off guard. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army. When America invaded and designated Operation Detachment. The goal was capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. -
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was fought on the Ryukyu Island of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. Okinawa occupied by the United States until 1972. -
V-E Day
V-E Day is marked as the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II or Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. This day is known for being the end og World War II in Europe. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki killed around 129,000 people and remains the only uses of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. 90,000-166,000 killed in Hiroshima and 39,000-80,000 killed in Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
V-J Day is a day which Japan surrendered, ending World War II. Allies named the surrender V-J Day after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. -
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of cantral and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. After the collapse of USSR and the end of the Cold War, Alliance transformed into the subsequent Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO.
