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Rape of Nanking
The Japanese Imperial Army entred China and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. This became known as the Rape Of Nanking, this was going to represent the single cruel act druing World War 2. Chinese forces tried putting up surprisingly resistance against the Japanese Army which had expected an easy victory in China. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was a name give to the Nazi Germans. Barbarossa was the largest military attack in World War 2, and was to have some consequences for the Russian people. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It killed more then 2,400 Americans and at least 21 ships were sunk or completely demolished. This attack left Americans angry that they decarlared World War II against Japan. Why they attack Pearl Harbor, the ban of imposed by President Roosevelt on trade functions of Japan. Japanese were on the way to emerge as the strongest naval power but America stood in their way. -
Battle of Midway
After the attack of Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the naval battles of World War 2. The United States was able to ambush Japans plan, they were able to bring upon damage on the Japanese Navy. This victory allowed the United States to move into an offensive position. Japan was still able to sink the American Aircraft. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Nazis rounded up over 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, Poland and put them in ghettos. Living conditions were very poor, and nearly 100,000 Jews died within 2 years of being put in these ghettos. Some of the Jews started making their own weapons and digging their own underground bunkers and using the sewer system t get around. They were trying to avoid being sent to forced labor camps. In January of 1943, a small ambush surprised the German Officers. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began fully on Ap -
Allied invasion of Italy
Allied planners started looking North across the Mediterranean after the Campian with North Africa. American leaders wanted to move forward with the invasion of France, British counterparts wanted to strike against Europe. s it became increasingly clear that resources were not available for a cross-Channel operation in 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt agreed to the invasion of Sicily http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/WWIIEurope/p/World-War-Ii-Invasion-Of-Italy.htm -
D-Day
On this day 160,000 Allied troops landed on a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, so they could fight Nazi Germany. 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, Soldiers began to slow across Europe to defeat Hitler and his troops. This was the end to Hitler's dream of Nazi domination. http://www.army.mil/d-day/ -
Liberation of concentration camps
On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and late entered other camps. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The British, Canadian, American, and French troops also had to free prisoners from the camps. The Americans were the ones for liberating Buchenwald and Dacha. Germans wanted to empy the camps with the surviving prisoners and tried to hide all evidence of their crimes. https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/artic -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, they called it like that because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest which they had to push through the American defensive line. This battle also happened because of Hitler's plan to lunch a counter- offensive though the allied armies. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion with the Allied Command for a while now. What they were going to do was to drop a bomb one the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure. two months after D-Day, chief of the Air Staff, had suggested that the moment Germany approached military collapse, a series of heavy air raids to be launched against east German population centers http://ww2orc.tripod.com/id15.htm. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the craggy, bombed-out island of Iwo Jima The Japanese were the ones who were defending Iwo Jima. After they found their way onto its southeastern beach on February 19, 1945, many of the U.S. Marine invasion force wondered if there were any Japanese left still alive on Iwo Jima. smoke now covered much of the island, and the stench of cordite and sulphur hung heavy in the air http://www.history.com/news/the-battle-of-iwo-jima-begins-70-years-ago -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was called one of the largest sea-land air battle and was the last battle in the Pacific. There were 287,000 U.S troops, and was the Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese. Japanese had send out their big battleship, The Yamato on a mission which was a special attack http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa -
VE Day
On this day Great Britain and the United States were Celebrating their victory in Eurpeo day. the six years of suffuring and misery came to an end. After Hitler's Killed himself, Grand Admiral Donitz, who had been President of the Third Reich for a week, had to surrender. May 8th was they day when the German troops finally laid down their arms. Germans surrender after loosing 8,000 soliders http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Dropping Atomic Bombs
Enola Gay, dropped the first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima 80,000 people are killed because of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber was dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The power of 15,000 tons of TNT killed 80,000 people.
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VJ Day
Japan finally surrendered after the six years of war. There was happiness and celebration, and August 15 was the day victory was declared in Japan. The end of this war, was marked as two days of holiday in the UK, U.S. and Australia. US President Harry S Truman gave good news at a press conference at the White House, and said that the Japanese Government had agreed to comply in full with the Potsdam declaration.
