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Rape of Nanking
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, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
German Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France was German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi ermany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese plains attacked the United States Naval Base In Hawaii, Pearl Harbor. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a 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 in Southern Russia -
Battle of Midway
United States defeated Japan in a naval battle of WWII, United States was able to figure Japanese codes. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position, This fleet engagement between U.S. and Japanese navies resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction at Pearl Harbor -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” -
Allied invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy. The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula -
D-DAY (Normandy Invasion)
Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe. Its objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp -
Battle of Iwo Jima
US Marines landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japanese army during WWII. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting -
Battle of Okinawa
"Operation Iceberg", was a series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands. This involved 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
Potsdam Declaration
Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II, Birth of the Constitution of Japan -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Elona Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killed 80,000 people -
VJ DAY
The day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. Several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
