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Japanese invasion of china
On July 17 1997, Japan undeclared war on China.The conflict that broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. They wanted to have it their way when the other country wanted everything well and upright. Japanese claimed that they were fired on by chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. They used this as an excuse to proceed the attack. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Germany's invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses. -
German Blitzkrieg
German Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The German Blitzrieg attactic was used in many cities to conquer them. The first time the Germans use that attacic was in Poland, after knowing it worked they started to use it more offen. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
In June 22,1941 German troops invade Russians because Hitler wanted their supplies in oil. Even through they both, German and Russia signed a treaty. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
On the early morning of December 7th 1941 the japanese attacked the air base of the United States leaving more than 1,000 people wounded and all planes and everything for war destroyed. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
On January 20,1942 the Wannsee Conference took place where the Nazi's officials met to talk about the solutions on what they should do to all the jews. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah
On July 24th of the year 1943 Operation Gomorrah was put in use. Operation Gomorrah was when British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” The affect of Operation Gomorrah was more than 1,500 German civilans died and British lost 12 aircrafts and in total aircrafts were 791 aircrafts. -
D- Day (Normandy Invasion)
D-day
D-day or more known as a Codenamed for Operation Overlord. On June 6,1994 was a attack that 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces fought at a beach 50 miles from the coast of France's Normandy area. -
Battle of the bulge
Battle of the Bugle
On December 16,1945 Battle of the Bulge took place in the northwest area. Adolf Hitler tried to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe which lead to the surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was on Febuary 19,1945.For the 70,000 Americans, Iwo Jima was the step to the Japanese heartland and to the end of an awful war. For the 22,000 Japanese defenders, Iwo Jima was the defense of their very hearths and homes as it was part of the Tokyo. -
Operation thunderclap
operation thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a canceled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 wounded with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Battle okinawa
this battle was one of the most dangerous battle there were alot of deads and even missing people. The Battle of Okinawa involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Dropping of the atomic bombs
On August 6th 1945 the bombing of the atomic bombs took place in at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time. These bombs had been thown over the city of Hiroshima. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped; only 28,000 remained after the bombing. -
VJ Day
VJ Day
On August 15th 1945 VJ Day took place. VJ Day was when Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, which ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
