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Japanese invasion of China
China began full-scale resistance to japan. Japan got upset and angry. They decided to invade and take control of China again since they owned most of Chinas land. they were both at a stalemate for a long time as the second world war began. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
One of Hitlers foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This plan wasnt all popular with the germans.In the mid and late 1930s, France and especially Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement. The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. But on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
German Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military strategy designed to create disorganization among the enemy through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Germany decided to use this strategy on blitzkrieg and it succeded. they used the strategy with Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Fall of Paris
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Beginning on 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 1944. -
Operation Barbarossa
operation barbarossa was the original name for operation Fritz during WW2. Code name for the german invasion in the soviet union which was launched on June 22, 1941. The picture is of a team of flamethrowers while taking over soviet union. But the failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. -
Pearl Harbor
The picture is from a japenese plane while they were dropping the torpedos on the harbor. Just before 8am Hundreds of japenese jet fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack didnt last very long but it was very devastating.The japenese manages to take down 20 naval ships and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Wannsee Conference
The picture is of the place where the conferece was held.
Wannsee Conference was the meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution”.The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy toward the Jews. An earlier idea, to deport all of Europe’s Jews to the island of Madagascar, off of Africa, was abandoned as impractical in wartime. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway, World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
Rape of Nanking
The picture is of Iwane Matsui enters Nanking.over a period of six weeks,Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people in the city of Nanking. The horrific events are known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, as between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanking, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover. -
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, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. The uprising started when the Ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander, who then ordered the burning of the Ghetto, ending on 16 May. 13,000 Jews died. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. -
Operation Gomorrah
this is a picture of Lancaster over Hamburg. British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah.Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. The main invasion force landed around Salerno on 9 September on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria and Taranto. -
D-Day
The picture is of Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wading ashore on Omaha Beach.the Battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day. American and Bristish workers waded onto the beach and thousands died from the machine gun shooting germans. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation. It was shelved and never implemented. The plan was a massive attack on Berlin. In the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed. many of them would be important German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe.By means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. A crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of the Ardennes proved fatal to Hitler’s ambition to snatch.The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The picture is of gun fires against Japanese cave positions in the north face of Mount Suribachi. The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle. In which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima. The American invasion,had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields.This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The picture is of a marine providing cover for his team in this battle. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. It was the Okinawa campaign. It involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S.Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. -
VE Day
The picture is of Winston Churchill waving to crowds on the day that the war with Germany was over.Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The eighth of May spelled the day. when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: Germans surrendered to their Soviet enemies. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Picture is of Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right).The United states was the only nation to use atomic weaponry in the war. We dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of Hiroshima to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people.Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. Soon, Japan announced its surrender. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known V-J Day. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place.
