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Japanese Invasion of China
July of 1937 japanese claimed that they were attacked from chinese troops, even though an excuse, full on war was declared against China. Manchuria was invaded and conqured by japanese troops as a launching base. Facing little resistance from ememy troops, November 1937, Shanghai fell a very important port in china. With such brutal force from japanese soliders within five months, 1 million chinese people were under control by japanese troops. -
Rape of Nanking
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. After just four days of fighting, Japanese troops smashed into the city on December 13, 1937, with orders issued to "kill all captives." Their first concern was to eliminate any threat from the 90,000 Chinese soldiers who surrendered. To the Japanese, surrender was an unthinkable act of cowardice and the ultimate violation -
German Invasion of Poland
German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler saw Poland as more space for the german people to gain back again. Some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland across their border. German 'Luftwaffe' bombed polish airfields, warships and u-boats attacked polish naval forces. Adolf Hitler purposed this as a defense mechanism but many were not convinced. Two days later war was declared on germany. To neutralize the possibility that the USSR would come to Poland’s aid, Germany signed a a pact of agreement. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany's Blitzkrieg or "Lighting War" tactics overwhelmed Poland in September 1939. The Luftwaffe had 3 planes for every Polish aircraft, most of which were destroyed on the ground in the first few days, German units with more then 2,000 tanks and 1,000 places over polish boarders. Soviet Union then invaded on the east of Poland while Hitler was invading the west. Britain and France who wanted to stand by their guarntee of polish boarders declared war on German on September 3. -
Fall of Paris
fall of parisHitler unleashing his fury on Paris another dissapointing defeat for Britian. The German advance continues to sweep southward driving before it not only the retreating French army, but an estimated 10 million refugees fleeing for their lives. The French abandon Paris, declaring it an open city. The French collapse was as sudden as it was unexpected. It ripped up the balance of power in Europe, and overnight left the strategic assumptions on which Britain had planned to fight Hitler was ruined -
Operation Barbarossa
German invasion of the Soviet Union that was largest military attack in World War ll. Hitler wanting to defeat communism, and take over land in the ussr. Three army groups attacked the Soviet Union on June 22nd 1941. Army Group North, Army Group Centre, and Army Group South. Determined to enslave the Salvic population, and exterminate the Jews.Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two-front war that it could not win. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock, but the U.S and the Japanese empire have been eding to war for a while. With Japan attacking China in order to try to expand territory, the U.S cut off many supplies that Japan relied on. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. Next day Americac declared war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the issue of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The "Final Solution" was the code name for the, deliberate, physical conquest of the European Jews. At some still undetermined time in 1941, Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder upon all jews -
Battle of Midway
Six months after he Pearl Harbor attack Allied forces hit japans fleet. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle. . Yamamoto Isoroku sent out the bulk of the Japanese fleet, including four heavy and three light aircraft carriers, with orders to engage and destroy the American fleet and invade Midway. U.S. intelligence had divined Japanese intentions after breaking the Japanese naval code, however, and the Americans were ready. -
Alied invasion of Italy
On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender. With combined air and sea landings involving 150,000 troops, 3,000 ships and 4,000 aircraft, all directed at the southern shores of the island. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, in Operation Gomorrah. Series of air raids, Americans attacking Hamburg during day and British forces attacking at night, destorying nearly half the city. Hamburg had been devastated in a shocking blow. The message had been delivered.
One of the aims of the bombing campaign was to send a direct message to ordinary Germans that things could only get worse. It was hoped that this might break support for the Nazi regime. -
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy, will forever be remebered. of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet army marched near Lublin in Poland as their campaign westward continued. They came across the abandoned Majdanek concentration camp, whose prisoners already had been herded off on a death march away from the advancing Soviet troops. Majdanek was burned in attempt to mask its presence as the Germans retreated from the region but the remains of gas chambers were evident. This was the first major concentration camp discovered by those fighting against Germany. Brutal and inhumane -
Operation Thunderclap
he code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work. The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be implemented in coordination with a Soviet advance, but was again was rejected as impractical. -
Battle of the Bulge
an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front. isolated American units and the thick fog that prevented Allied air cover from discovering German movement, the Germans were able to push the Americans into retreat. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. 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. American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa,was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II.The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. The Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island close to the mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. -
Victory in Europe day
V Day 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 marked the end of World War II in Europe. celebrations erupted throughout the world. From Moscow to Los Angeles, people cheered. In the United Kingdom, more than one million people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European part of the war. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
n August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. -
Victory of Japan day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” In Washington on August 14, President Harry S. Truman announced news of Japan’s surrender in a press conference at the White House: “This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.
