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Japanese invasion of China
A military conflicted between the Republic of China and Empire of Japan. Also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
It was an invasion of Poland by Germany starting the beginning of WWll. Also known as the Defensive War or September Campaign. German and Soviet Union ending the battle with victory. -
German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization to the enemy. successful execution results in short military campaigns protect human lives. Also, limits the expenditure of artillery. Blitzkrieg is also known as the lightning war. -
Fall of Paris (1940)
Fall of Paris was also known as the Battle of Paris. It was when Germans invaded France. After the British left and France was left to fight for itself, the Germans launched Case Red. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. The Germans suffered over 750,000 casualties during Operation 'Barbarossa', with some 200,000 men killed. -
Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military attack on the United States by the Japanese Navy. Happened in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese attack had several major aims. -
Wannsee Conference
the Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders.seen as the meeting where the so-called 'Final Solution' was decided on. Wannsee Conference, the meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” to the so-called “Jewish question”. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. Fought just a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was the turning point of the Pacific Campaign. Skill, daring, and luck all played a part. -
Operation Gomorrah
The Battle of Hamburg, codenamed Operation Gomorrah, was a campaign of air raids which began on 24 July 1943 and lasted for 8 days and 7 nights. Civilian deaths during the war include air raid deaths, estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000 to 500,000. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was an important event in World War II.It began with British forces skipping across the Strait of Messina to Calabria.Until Hitler was defeated, the Pacific would be a secondary theater of war.Troops and vehicles being landed under shell fire during the invasion of mainland Italy at Salerno, September 1943. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe. Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France -
Battle of the Bulge
In the end, the Allies committed enough troops that the tired, ill- equipped German army was overwhelmed. Indeed, the Battle of the Bulge was an important turning point in the war in the Allies' favor, but it was not without its cost. The Battle of the Bulge is considered one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in February 1945. ... Despite its size, Iwo Jima was considered to have great tactical importance. There were two airfields on the island – under Japan's control; they could be used by Japanese fighter planes to attack American bombers on their flights to Japan. -
Battle of Okinawa
he battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. -
VE Day (1945)
the date the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Reich, formally recognising the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Allies had begun to overrun Germany from the west during April as Russian forces advanced from the east. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
VJ Day
Selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri.
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Liberation of concentration camp
Unlike concentration camps, which had existed in Germany since 1933 and were detention centers for Jews, political prisoners and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state, death camps existed for the sole purpose of killing Jews and other “undesirables,” in what became known as the Holocaust. -
Operation Thunderclap
Plans were drawn for an operation code named Thunderclap, but it was shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale.
Thunderclap plan - Wikipedia
