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Japanese invasion of China
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident created a huge conflict. The Chinese Nationalists and the CCP agreed to fight with eachother against Japan. China later got help from Nazi Germany for a little bit of time, then Hitler made sides with Japan in 1938. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Germany bombed Poland from the air. Adolf Hitler tries to gain land that was lost and to rule Poland. World War II had just started. -
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German Blitzkrieg
Germany over took too much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years. The millitary tactic was called "Blitzkrieg" or (Lightning War). The Blitzkrieg focused on offensive wepons like: tanks, planes, and artillery also with a narrow front. -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries. The battle defeated primarily French forces. -
Operation Barbarossa
German troops failed to defeat the Soviet forces. Hitler and his generals had planned to invade the U.S.S.R for the middle of May, but him invading Yugoslavia and Greece in April made him postpone the Soviet Campian to the end of June. -
Pear Harbor
The attack was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy. They aimed for the United States naval base at Pear Harbor. The attack started at 7:48 a.m. 353 Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes launched in two waves from 6 air craft carriers. Four of our ships sunk out of the eight thier. -
Wannsee Conference
High- ranking Nazi Party and German goverment officials met at a villa in Berlin, to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Battle of Midway
This fleet engagement between U.S. and Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction at Pearl Harbor. American fleet calculating that when the United States began its counterattack, -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia, on the eastern fronts of Eroupe. -
Operation Gomorrah
In just 43 minutes, 2,326 tones of bombs were dropped. Hamburg went up in flames killing tens of thousands of lives. Buildings and acreages were destroyed. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
156,000 soldiers landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Liberation of concentration craps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.They entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. They entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front -
Operation Thunderclap
The plan was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to mess up the transport structure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Germany's air defences were little substance and the Nazi regime had failed them. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army -
Battle of Okinawa
The largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of WWII. Casualties with over 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 for the Allies. Two US Marine and two Army divisions landed on the shorse faced ruffly 155,000 Japanese. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day. The acceptance by the Allies of WW II of Germany to surrender its armed forces -
Dropping of the atomic bomb
At 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. 80,000 people were killed instantly, and another 35,000 are injured. By the end of the year more than 60,000 would be dead from the effects of the bomb. -
VJ Day
The surrender of the Japanese. Victory to the United States. The end of World War 2
