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Germanys Invasion of Poland
German Soviet PAct of August 1939 stated that Poland was to be partitioned between two powers enabaling Germany to invade Poland. On September 1st the Polnd army was defeated -
German Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. -
Fall of Paris
German invasion of France, German forces deafeted allied forces eventually leading to the conquest of France. -
Operation Barborossa
Germanys name for the operation when they invaded the Soviet which began on June 22nd ,1941. The operation was dreamed of by Hitler who had always wanted to conquer the Soviet. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese planes attacked the base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. 2,000 American soldiers and navy men died in the devastating Pearl Harbor attack that lasted 2 hours. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Reason for the meeting was to ensure cooraperaton of various government leaders about the Jewish question -
Bataan Death March
The U.S surrender of Bataan Peninsula on the Plillipine Island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. U.S and Philipine troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
One of the biggest naval battles. Admiral Chester Nimitz fought the Japanese commander Isoroku Yamamoto. This was said to be the most decisive and stunning battles in naval history. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This was a major battle of the Eastern Front which the German army and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the control of the City of Stalingrad. -
Warsaaw Ghetto Uprising
When a Jewish resistance group and oppsed Germanys final effort to transport the final ghetto population to a extermination camp. The uprising started when the ghetto refused to surrender to a SS Police Commander -
Allied Invasion of Italy
U.S landing on mainland Italy during the early stages of World War II. The operation was taken by Gerneral Sir Harold Alexanders 15th Army Group and General Bernards British Army -
D-Day
On June 6th more than 160,000 allied forces stormed the 50 mile long heavily fortified beaches of Normandy, France. More than 9,000 allied forces died but paved the way for more than 100,000 troops to start the long treck across Europe -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet Soldiers were the first people to liberate concentratoin camps and they first did so on July 23rd, 1944. And finally on Jan 27th, 1945 they entered Auschwitz and liberated it. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was Germanys largest offensive campaigns in Belgium, France, and Luxemborg. This sneak attack caught allied forces off gaurd and the United States suffered its highest causualities for any operation. Germany however lost most of its armored forces. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan included attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casu lties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. Buts later decided that the plan was unlikely to work. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Major battle were US marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima and later on eventually captured the island. The battle was 5 weeks long. After the capture however the island was seen as usless to the US Army and the US navy -
Battle of Okinawa
Otherwise named operation Iceberg and included the largest amphibious assaultin the Pacific War during World War II. This battle lasted 82 days. The fighting in this battle was thought to be some of the most fearce. -
VE Day
VE Day was known as Victory in Europe Day and was celebrated around the world because this was the day that the Nazi's surrendered their arm forces. -
VJ Day
The day that World War II was officially over. A former surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
After the United States gained approval from the U.K they dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and then three days later dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The two bombs killed an estimated total of 130,000 people
