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Japanese Invasion Of China
The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese.The reasons for the invasion were primarily economic. Japanese wanted to control the resources of China, both mineral resources and agricultural production.Japanese military was not only better armed and organized, they were also incredibly brutal.citation -
Germany's Invation Of Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum for the German people and expansion. Germany estimated an involvement of over 11 million jewish people.millions of jews had been transported to killing centers.citation -
German Blitzkrieg
German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium,the Netherlands and France in 1940.Germen aim was to achieve victory by enveloping enemy armies, threatening their lines of supply and communications, and forcing them to fight in an unexpected direction.Many blitzkriegs result in a success.citation -
Fall Of Paris
Europe had been at war for nine months. Yet Britain and France, despite having declared war on Germany in September 1939 following Hitler’s attack on Poland, had seen little real fighting.German plan of attack, codenamed Case Yellow, entailed an armoured offensive through the Ardennes Forest, which bypassed the strong French frontier defences of the Maginot Line.The fall of France was dramatic in its speed.citation -
Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two-front war that it could not win.This happened because hitler wanted the ural mount,it was a surprise atack on stalin and was un prepared.citation -
Pearl Harbor
On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S.He Japanese felt that as an axis power that they would eventually go to war with the United States in the Pacific Ocean.Pearl Harbor was a turning point in national history and that no looking back was possible.citation -
Battle Of Stalingard
German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II.Hitler's wanted to attack in the direction of Moscow again, in order take Russia's capital city.The German invasion had already cost Russia over six million soldiers, half where killed.Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War.However this time Russia was still very weak.citation -
Manhatten Project
The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon.
they where worried that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York.The Manhattan Project allowed the United States to unlock the mysteries of the atom,The explosion came as an intense light flash.citation -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising comes to an end as Nazi soldiers gain control of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto, blowing up the last remaining synagogue and beginning the mass deportation of the ghetto’s remaining dwellers to the Treblinka extermination camp.planning an attack on the Jewish Police (who collaborated with the Nazis).Disease and starvation killed thousands every month.citation -
Battle Of Midway
Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entirety of the Japanese navy.Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's battle plan was, typically, bold and ingenious.When the Battle of Midway ended, Japan had lost four carriers.This battle a turning point for the US.citation -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day.The explosive power was the equivalent of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destructive raids.Britain had suffered the deaths of 167,although Britain lost only 12 aircraft in this raid.citation -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.Their plan was for an attack on the beaches of Normandy.The Germans also had been preparing. They knew that the Allies must invade France in order to carry the ground war into Germany.citation -
Battle Of The Bugle
Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. Hitler's plan to launch a counter-offensive to thrust through the allied armies in the Ardennes region of northwest Europe and recapture Antwerp in Belgium.
resulted in a massive loss of American and civilian life.citation -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.Many belongings were left behind as well. British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps.Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease.citation -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the plan was to bomb the eastern most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front.Germans range of air raid shelters available were relatively poor.citation -
Battle Of lwo Jima
On February 19, 1945, American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.The Japanese plans called for no survivors; their goal was to kill at least 10 Americans before they themselves were killed.Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, over 20,000 were killed and only 216 taken.But eventually , it was an American victory.citation -
Battle Of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, fought on the island of Okinawa.No one on either side expected it to be the last major battle of the war, which it was.The Americans were planning Operation Downfall, the invasion of the main islands, which never happened due to the controversial decision to use the atomic bomb.Americans suffered 12,500 dead and 35,000 wounded.citaion -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.While the British government was dealing with a country in the grip of rationing and cities ravaged by bombs, some ministers had to turn their thoughts to how people could celebrate victory after six years of war.13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain.citation -
Droping Of The Atomic Booms
Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima.the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland.80,000 people are killed,USbecomes the first nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime.citation -
VJ Day
In 1945 the End of World War II was celebrated on Victory over Japan (VJ) Day.This happened because war officially ended.There was much joy and celebration around the world.
Japan has surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war.The end of war will be marked by two-day holidays in the UK, the USA and Australia.
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