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Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese-The Japanese scored major victories in Shanghai after difficult fighting, and eventually captured the Chinese capital of Nanking. The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Using this as an excuse, the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.The outcome was the fact that Japan invaded all of China. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Germany Invades Poland German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east. Poland was then invaded due to losses of battles. -
Fall of Paris
Fall of ParisThey wanted to come in and invade all allied units hoping their plans woul dfollow through and not collaps on them. Germany ended up sucessfully invading Poland. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation BarbarossaOn June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa -- some 4.5 million troops launched a surprise attack deployed from German-controlled Poland, Finland, and Romania. They invaded them sucessfully. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor-Japan flew in multiple aircraft machines into the U.S. and fired bombs onto the ships that were floating in the water. Americans realized late that this was an attack so there wasn't much they could do. Sadly, the Japanese wiped out a lot of the military in this area. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee ConferenceThe point of this was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and exterminated. -
Bataan Death March
Bataan Death Marchthe forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. Approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell. -
Battle of Midway
Midway-It was an inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. The result was decisive American victory. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad-The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. They were terrified and they lost the battle because of this. -
Operation Gomorrah
Gomorrah- British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany. This was a loss for the Germans and this upset them. -
D-Day
D-Day-Troops landed along a stretch of heavily-armed French coastline to fight Germany in Normandy, France. Around 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by the end, Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation- The code for a canceled 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 -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima- A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island. -
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa- Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.[5][6] The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. -
VE Day
Ve DayWas 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.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Potsdam Declaration
Potsdam Declaration- A statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
Atomic Bomb- The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. This killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. -
VJ Day
VJ Day The day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. They celebrated this great victory. -
Battle of the Bulge
Bulge- Was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack.
