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Rape of Nanking
To break the spirit of Chinese Resistance, Japanesse General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking (or Nanjing) be destroyed. Imperial Japanese Army forces murdered hundreds of thousands of people- including both soldiers and civilians in Nanking. While murder occured on a large scale, the most frequent crime committed was rape. These rapes occured at all hours of the day. Nanking was then left destroyed, and would take decades for the city and citizens to recover these major attacks. -
German Bltzkrieg
German Bltzkrieg was a term that meant "lightning war". The Blitzkrieg was a military tactic to capture large area of land quickly .German army was led by tanks in columns supported by mobile infantry and air units. This tactic worked to take over Poland, Netherlands and France. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was one of Germany's key mistakes into losing the war. After signing the German-Soviet non agression pact ,Hitlers plan was to eventually violate this and invade Russia. Over three million German soldiers were sent into Russia with tanks and air units. Germany underestimated Russia and were outnumberd by all of Russias tanks. Also due to the harsh weather , many of Germanys vehicles failed. With Germanys defeat against Russia , the Germans now faced a two front war . -
Pearl Harbor
After the United States had stopped the shipment of supplies and resources to Japan, Japan launched one of the most famous attacks in history . Japanese air units were sent 4 thousand miles to Oahu to destroy the Pacific fleet so the United States could not fight back when Japan spread its attack. 2,500 men were killed along with hundreds of planes and twenty Navy ships destroyed. On December 8th The United States entered World War 2. -
Wannsee Conference
On this day, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.” In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit “as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question". -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Fillipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese did not give the prisoners food or water for three days. As the soldiers became weaker and weaker many of them started to fall behind the group. Those who fell behind were beaten and killed by the Japanese . -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in WWII and changed the course of the war in the Pacific. The Japanese Navy lost four of its aircraft carriers, the Soryu, Kaga, Akagi, and the Hiryu which enabled the U.S. to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific. The Battle of Midway was one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during WWII. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. This Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most bloodiest battles in history. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month,but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. Now the tables were going to turn. The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid. -
D-Day Normandy Invasion
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces 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. -
Operation Thunderclap
‘Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
A battle between U.S and Japan, was 1st major war to take place on japaneseLand. The island is located 750miles south of Tokyo,Japan which was good for a combat strategy so the U.S Can land/leave fighter planes or bombers when attackingJapan. After 36 days of Nonstop Fighting,U.S finally secured the Island, then placed a flag on the island which was photographed by Joe Rosenthal and later remembered by a statute that would sit infront of W.D.Cand become the U.SMarine Corps Memorial.DUCKSTERS.COM -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa was a series of Battles fought on the Ryukyu Islands which was centered on the islands of Okinawa. Okinawa was located 340 mi away from mainland Japan Which apparently was a great Base for air operations which the allies desperately needed for their invasion of the Japanses Mainland. "The Allied forces suffered 14,009 deaths,and Japan admittedly lost 77,166 soldiers "
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VE Day
VE Day is the day the Nazi Germanys surrounded to the allies. After Hitler Committed suicide Germans wore given the order to surrender by Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz ( the Successor ) . Soon it would later be celebrated from Moscow to Los Angeles and In the U.K over a million people Stood in the streets to celebrate the end of the European part of the War .Till these days it's celebrated as a holiday on ever 8th of May.
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Battle of the Bulge
On July 20, 1944, young German colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, a wounded veteran of the Tunisian campaign of World War II, attended Hitler's morning briefing at the Rastenberg headquarters in East Prussia while carrying a time bomb in a briefcase. He left the case under the heavy oak table at which Hitler was standing and found an excuse to leave. A few minutes later, the bomb exploded. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The Atomic Bombs wore two bombs , first one which was used on August 6, 1945 was called "Little Boy" and the second one used on August 9 called "Fat Man". Little boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Fat Man dropped in the city of Nagasaki. The bombs wore used so the Japans can surrounder and they did after the second hit. The bombs may have ended the war but nearly killed 129k -246k people , including civilians/Soldiers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagas -
VJ day
VJ day also know as "Victory over Japan" was the day Japan finally surrendered. The day of the surrounder was on August 14th then when it became public news to everyone was the next day so August 15th 1945. Basically WWII has ended and there isn't anymore wars happening. Also in the news there was a more formal ceremony rather then the first one which was on September 2nd 1945 that held in the Tokyo Bay. President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. http://www.holidayinsights.com
