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Pre-War Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Asia - Japanese Invasion of China
This was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The Chinese were defeated and Japan created a new puppet state -
Pre-War Munich Conference
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France signed an agreement that made Czechoslovakia surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany. The agreement that was made turned away the "war" that was going to happen but Czechoslovakia gave away to the Germans. -
Themes - Blitzkreig
Blitzkreig is a surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations together with close air support. The Germans were very good at using this tactic, and often defeated enemies like this. [Date: (Many Battles, not a specific one).] -
Pre-War Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. It allowed Germany to fight these intermediate wars without fear of a Soviet attack, thereby avoiding a two front war -
Russia - Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and most of its Axis allies. The operation was named after Frederick Barbarossa, a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and German king. This event played a major role in nazi genocide. -
Russia - Siege of Leningrad
The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front in World War II. The Finnish army invaded from the north, co-operating with the Germans, and completed the ring around the city. -
Russia - Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. The Battle of Moscow was won by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's victory of the Battle of Moscow effectively ended the German's invasion and marks the beginning of the Soviet Union's counter-offensives. -
Pacific - Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. Japan wanted to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia. -
Pacific - Battle of Midway
The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Africa - Tunisia Campaign
The Tunisian campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces. It was the first time in the Second World War that U.S. troops saw action in the European or Mediterranean theatres. -
Europe - Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy was incredibly successful and achieved what it set out to. The Allied armies were able to force Axis naval, air and land divisions out of the area and allowed Allied merchant ships into the Mediterranean for the first time since 1941. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to invade Italy. -
Themes - Genocide
Genocide is the the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. A lot of nations or countries would widely kill people even civilians just for the sake of "war. -
Europe - D-day
British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy in northern France. The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord which was the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe and aimed to bring an end to World War II. The Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Pacific - Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Their objective was to bring the war with Japan to a end and spare American lives.