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Japanese invasion of China
Japan invaded China when they are in the middle of a civil war. When they invaded they conquered and established a puppet state named Manchuko. They invasion went from July of 1937 to September 1945 -
Germany Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland, which was to be partitioned between the two powers, Germany and the Soviet Union. -
German Blitzkrieg (Lighting Warfare)
military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Hitler used this multiple times to invaded Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. -
Fall of Paris
When France came out of the war when Paris was over run by Nazis. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. -
Wannsee Conference
meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb -
Battle of Midway
Decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2. Lasted Between the 4th and the 7th of June 1942. -
Battle of Stalingrad
major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. went from August 1942 to February 1943 -
Operation Gomorrah
campaign of air raids beginning 24 July 1943 and lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. ... Within three days, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore. only lasted 13 days -
D-Day
When 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. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. This happened a lot by the end of the war. -
Battle of Okinawa
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. It went from April- June of 1945 -
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)
It was a public holiday the celebrated the formal acceptance that the Allies of WW2 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
President Harry S. Truman ordered American Bomber Enola Gay and dropped a five-ton Atomic Bomb over Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
VJ- Day (Victory In Japan Day)
The Japanese Surrendered Japan. This ended the way in the Pacific.
