WWII Events

  • German Blitzkrieg

    German Blitzkrieg

    It was very successful and was a lightning war.
  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Rape of Nanking

    It was a mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizen and capitulated soldiers. It started in December 1937 and ended January 1938.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy air service upon the US.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    It was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi, Germany, and Schutzstaffel leaders.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    It was a significant naval battle in the Pacific theater of WWII that took place on June 4th to the 7th, 1942.
  • Operation Gomorrah

    Operation Gomorrah

    It was a campaign of air raids which began on July 24th, 1943. It lasted for 8 days and 7 nights. It was at the time of the heaviest assault of aerial warfare.
  • D-Day Normandy Invasion

    D-Day Normandy Invasion

    It allied invasion of Normandy in Operation overlord during WWII. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
  • Potsdam Declaration

    Potsdam Declaration

    It was an issued document that which outlined the terms of surrender for the empire of Japan, as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    It was the victory formal acceptance by the allies of WWII marked the end. It happened in May, 1945.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    It was a major battle in which the US Maine corps and navy landed on and even captured the island of Iwo Jima from the imperial IJA.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa

    It was the last battle of WWII and one of the bloodiest.
  • Liberation Concentration Camps

    Liberation Concentration Camps

    It was the largest killing center and concentration camp complex.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    It was the day Japan took a victory.
  • Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

    Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

    A US B-29 bomber dropped and it became the world's first deployed atomic bomb. It was dropped over the Japanese city of Hirushima. It killed 80,000 people.
  • Battle of the bulge

    Battle of the bulge

    It was the last major German offensive campaign on the western front during WWII.