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Japanese invasion of China
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. It was when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. It happened because the Japanese invaded Manchuria to protect their interests in the railroad and the Kwantung Leased Territory. The effects were It left the people of chine angry and scared after they attacked. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg". Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. It happened because Germany wanted to avoid a long war and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic. Some effects were that Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against many countries. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War. Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force. German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. It happened because Britain knew it was only a matter of time before the Axis power turned its sights across the Channel. It was a fail for both the Germans and the British. This marked the first time that the Nazis were stopped. -
Fall of Paris
The German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. German forces occupied Paris after a chaotic period of flight of the French government that led to a collapse of the French army. The effects were that the french army was weakened. -
Peal Harbor
On a Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base and destroying it. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China. The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems with the United States was to expand into its neighbor’s territory and take over its import market so they could be in control. -
Battle of Midway
The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles, The Battle of Midway. It was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength. The United States Navy defeated the Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre -
Bataan Death March
The march was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army prisoners were force-marched north to San Fernando and then taken by rail in cramped and unsanitary boxcars farther north to Capas. The effect was U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history. The effect was that it humiliated Hitler and stopped German progression. -
Allied invasion of Italy
With North Africa secured and Sicily—the stepping stone to Italy—conquered, the Allied forces launched their invasion of Italy on 3 September 1943. It began with British forces skipping across the Strait of Messina to Calabria. What happened was that northern forces threw a net across the Italian peninsula while the British army chased the Germans into it from the south. Effects were the allied forces were successful in their invasion in north africa if they had their help invading italy. -
D-Day
American, British and Canadian forces invaded beaches along a stretch of the France’s Normandy region. The Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. It happened because it was a method for liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. as an effect it forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. Yet again the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The effects were that it brought the end of the German army and the Nazi reign -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. It happened because The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. The effects of this were that the USA had an easier time attacking with the new base for their planes to land and take off. -
VE Day
It was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It happened because the people were so relieved that the germans lost their power. The effects were people celebrating for the fall of the germans. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland. American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins. Effects were that it immediately killed 80,000 people. More died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning -
VJ Day
it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. it has been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The effects were People celebrated from the relief.
