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Japanese invasion of China
The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Using this as an excuse, the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. -
rape of nanking
Japanese imperial Army marched into China's capital of Nanking and murdered 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city -
Germany invaison of Poland
Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against -
German Blitzkrieg
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A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. The bli -
Operation BarBarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee; in training, doctrine, and fighting ability, the forces invading Russia re -
Pearl Harbor
on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
battle of midway
After the attack on Pear Harbor, six months later the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War 2. There was a major help in code breaking Japan's plan. -
Bataan Death March
Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. They were subjected to harsh treatments by Japanses guards -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
Normandy Invasion
The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. They designate day and hour for an operation when the actual day and hour have not yet been determined or announced. -
-D-Day (Normandy Invasion
Some 156,000 Americans,British, and Canadian forces landed on five on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
Two U.S. Marines and two Army divisions landed on Okinawa facing 155,000 Japanese ground, air and naval troops holding an immense island on which civilians lived. -
ve day
An official annoucment of the End of World War 2 in Europe. German troops finally laid down their arms. -
Potsdam Declaration
U.S, president, U.K. prime minister and Chairman of the nationalist governmet of China issued a document outlining the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan -
Dropping of the Atomic bombs
An Amerrican B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over southern Japanses city of Hiroshima. Wiping out arounf 90% of the city killing aroung 80,000 people. Thousands more would die of the radiation exposure. Three days later a second B-29 dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
Japan had surrendured unconditionally to the Allies, ending WW2. -
battle of the bulge
Germans used over 200,000 troops and nearly 1,000 tanks to break through the U.S. line. Killing thousands of American troops. They had English Speaking Germans behind the Allied lines lying to the Americans