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Japanese Invasion of China (1937)
In the 1930's China was a divided country. In the 1930's, Chinese suffered terriforial enroachment from the Japanese, using their Manchurian base. The official strategy was to secure control China by deating internal enemies. This happened because, fighting began with the Battle of Lugou Bridge, often reffered has the Marc Polo Bridge incident. The Japanese Goverment, however, did not declare war. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
One of Hitler's first major action after coming power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. Not many who supported Hitler liked the idea. In September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. With more than 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and avanced on Warsaw in massive encirclement attack. Hitler clamed that the invasion was a defensive action. -
German Blitzkrieg (1939- 1940)
In the 1940's of World War 2 in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war.Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victoriuos for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic "Blitzkrieg". German air power prevented the enemy from adequately resupplying or redeployoing forces. The blitzkrieg happened because Germany wanted to built its empire and felt that other European powers were restricting them. -
Operation Barborassa
During World War 2, Operation Barborassa was a code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on 22 June 1941. It was the largest military operation in history, more thsn 3 million Axis troops and 3,500 tanks. Of course, it was Hitler's belief that Germans were the "master race" that should own everyhting and be theres. Operation Barborassa faild. -
1941 Pearl Harbor
There was a Washington.But it was too late.The U.S. broke Japans diplomatic code. They knew the attacks were going to happen. In November of 1941. The Japanese agreed hthat if negotioations failed, they would go with the to war U.S. To do so, they would have to contend with Pearl Harbor. Radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes attacked a U.S.navel base -
Wannsee Confrence
On January, 20 1942, Reinhard Heydrick, second in command of the SS, gather the Wannsee Confrence in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to go and take over the Final Solution in which the Nazi would attack the entire Jewish population of Europe, about 11 million people. The Nazi party and German goverment officials gathered to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called " Final Sulution of the Jewish Questions." -
Operation Gormorrah
In 1943 the British bombers had raided Hamburg, Germany. The night was Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day. Because of Germany invading in July by bombing the British it was time for British to raid/bomb them back. Once all this went on until November the outlook on it was over 17,000 bomber sorties dropped more than 9,000 tons of explosives. That killed more than 30,000 people and destroying 280,000 buildings, such as industrial and munitions plants. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
In the World War 2, the Battle of Bulge was significant, because it used up the last remaining military resources of Germany, which led to quicker victory on he part of he Allies. Also, taking place on the western front, it allowed soviet troops to gain more groundin the east than would otherwise have been possible before the war's end. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945 it was announced that Japan had surrendere to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or aka “V-J Day.Freedom was felt by citizens of nations all over that endured this at the end of the long and harsh violent war. This day meaning it ended World War II,having the document being signed on September 2nd 1945. Till this day KT is still celebrated on August 14th and 15th from such freedom that came -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation August 1944 but it never followed through. The plan was to have a massive attack on Berlin hoping for 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would tear apart/bring down the German morale. But only later to find out it wasn't going through again and won't work. Although this big operation didn't go through smaller raids did that were effective to Berlin,Dresden and etc.
