-
Rape of Nanking
The Japanese soldiers went in over a six week period and brutally murdered approximately 200,000 to 300,000 people.the rape of Nanking occurred because the Japanese felt superior to China, and the rape of Nanking was just proving that the Japanese were superior. The long term effects of the rape Nanking are still around today, Japanese and Chinese still have issues with each other to this day. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov pact
Germany signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact or German-Soviet nonaggression pact. This pact kept the Soviet Union and Germany from fighting for 10 years. Germany used the pact to make sure that they could successfully invade Poland. The pact became invalid when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland using the “blitzkrieg” strategy, this was the act that started WWII. Hitler invaded Poland because most polish people spoke German and Poland would serve as a "living space" for the germans. Because of this France and Britain declared war on Germany. -
German Blitzkrieg
a violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination. This was used to invade poland. The reason this was done was because hitler wanted more living space for Germans. In a matter of weeks Poland had been taken over and the Germans split Poland in half with the Soviet Union. -
Operation Barbossa
This was Germanys attempt to invade the Soviet Union. The Germans had underestimated their invasion and were not prepared for what was to come. Within a month the Germans were deep into Soviet territor, counter attacks from the Soviets held off the Germans from advancing. By the time the Germans had recieved more supplies it was too late. The terrible Soviet weather forced the Germans to retreat. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked an American base called pearl Harbor early in the morning. The Japanese destroyed nearly 20 naval vessels, wounded about 1,000, and killed more than 2,000 American sailors and soldiers. The next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress declared war on the Japanese. -
Bataan Death March
Surendered Filipinos and Americans were forced to walk 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. The march took about five days to complete. Its reported that thousands of marchers died because of the harsh treatment they recieved from their captors. In 1945 U.S. and Filipino forces recaptured the Bataan peninsula -
Battle of Midway
On June 4, 1942 the Japanese havily bombed Midway Island. The Battle of Midway was a naval battle fought mostly by aircraft in which the United States defeated the best trained Japanese pilots and ended the threat of further Japanese attacks in the Pacific. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
When the jews found out that they were being moved to a work/death camp. The residents of the Jewish ghetto staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The warsaw ghetto uprising inspired outbursts in other camps and ghettos. -
Operation Gomorrah
The british are getting back at the germans for bombing them. So to retaliate the british dropped 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours.Britain suffered 167 civilian deaths, while after Operation Gomorrah Germany had lost more than 1,500 after the first raid. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin during WWII. They discussed an invasion on Germany's front. Stalin agreed to an eastern offensive to coincide with the forthcoming Western Front. The Allied Forces agreed on a decleration in which it guaranteed the postwar independence and territorial integrity of that state and promising postwar economic assistance. -
D day (Normandy Invasion)
Americans and British decided to do an allied invasion of Normandy in order to liberate the French from the Germans.By the end of August the allies had liberated France from the Germans. This prevented Hitler from sending troops to France, The following spring, on May 8, 1945, the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany -
Battle of The Bulge
Threee German armies attempted launched a deadly battle in the heavily forrested Ardennes. The Americans were caught flat footed and fought desperately against the Germans.The Germans drove deeper and deeper into the Ardennes after defeating the U.S. 106th Division. The allied front took on the bulge. The German army began to run out of supplies. The german attack had afiled and the U.S. had lost suffered about a 100,000 casualties. -
The Liberation of Concentration Camps
On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz and liberated everyone. 348,820 men's suits, 836,255 women's coats, and tens of thousands of pairs of shoes were found just at Auschwitz. Then more and more camps were being liberated by the British, French, Soviets and Americans. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The U.S. Marines captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army. Their goal was to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This battle is primarily remembered by the raising of the United States flag. -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa was the final and biggest battle of the pacific island battles during WWII. They were fighting for air bases which were vital to the invasion of Japan. The U.S. losses on the ground included 7,374 killed, 31,807 wounded, and 239 missing in action. The navy suffered 4,907 killed or missing aboard 34 ships sunk and 368 damaged; 763 aircraft were lost. At sea and in the air, the Japanese expended roughly 2,800 aircraft, plus a battleship, a light cruiser, and four destroyers, -
VE Day
This is the day that German troops finally put down their arms. Germans began surrendering throughout Europe. German soldiers were still fighting against the Soviets, and their main concer was to not be captured by the Soviets. The Soviets took 2 million prisoners befroe and after the Germans surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the last WWII meeting of the “Big Three”.The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.The talks were centered around postwar Europe, but the “Big Three” wanted an unconditional surrender from japan. -
Dropping the Atomic Bombs
During WWII an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, the explosion wiped out ninety- percent of the city. It killed 80,000 people instantly and would later kill thousands more from radiation.Threedays after the first bombing another bomber would drop another Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki killing about 40,000 people. Japans emperor would later surrender. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered ending WWII. on September 2, 1945 Japan formally surrendered officially ending WWII. Fascism pretty much died on this day.
