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Japanese invasion of China
Over a week period Japanese army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people including both soldiers and civilians. Between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. the capital of Nationalist China was left in ruins and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks. -
Rape of Nanking
The capital of China falls into Japanese forces . Much of the city was burned and thee Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocites against civilians. The japanese butchered about 150,000 male war prisoners, massacred 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women of all ages and some of them were killed in the process. -
Germanys invasion of Poland
Around 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along a 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory. The German bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Germans would colonize the territory and the native Slaves would be enslaved. -
Fall of Paris
When German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 Million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired French men and women in the west cheered as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France. -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. There was about 4.5 million troops launched a surprise attack deployed from german- controlled Poland, Finland, and Romania. German troops were within sight of Moscow and they laid siege to the city. -
Pearl Harbor
The Imoerial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States bombing warships and military targets in Pearl Harbor. More than 350 Japanese Aircrafts attacked the naval base. the entire preemptive attack lasted only 90 minutes and in that time the Japanese sunk four battleships and two destroyers, pummeled 188 aircraft, and more. -
Wannsee Conference
Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the central office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee, a scburb of Berlin. It was to devise a plan that would render a final solution to the Jewish question in Europe. -
Battle of Midway
The United States was able to preempt ans counter Japans planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. The Fleet between the U.S. and the Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean result from Japans desire to sink the american aircraft carriers. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was the successful Soviet defence of the city of Stalingrad in the USSR during world war 2. It stopped the german advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor ofthe Allies. Its was also one of the bloodiest battles in history with combines military and civilian casualties of almost 2 million. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in the extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. There were more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day. Britian had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raid in July. British lost only 12 aircrafts in this raid, there was 791 the flew. British attacks on Hamburg continues until November of that year. -
Allied invasion of Italy
On september 3 1943 the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies terms for surrender but no publc announcement was made until September 8. The Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of sicily, off mainland Italy. -
D- Day Normandy invasion
It lasted from June 1944 to August 1944 rsulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germanys control. June 5 was selected as the date for the invasion but because of bad weather on the days leading up to the operation caused it ti be delayed for 24 hours. -
Battle of Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg through the Ardennes to Antwerp. The Allies leadership miscalculated and left the Ardennes Lightly defended by only two inexperienced and two battered American divisions. -
Operation thunderclap
A series of firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden reducing the Florence of the Elbe to rubble the flames. The Allied powers was the resolution that the Allies would engage in concerted strategic bombing raids against German cities known for war-production and manufacturing. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The invasion of Iwo Jima during world war 2 stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Three U.S. Marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Even through the bad conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. It was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marianna's. Iwo Jima was defended y around 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa involved 287,000 troops of the U.S. Thenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At the end of the day 82 Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties, including 14,000 dead. The Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks by plane on one way suicide missions, they also sent their last big battleship. -
VE Day
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrated victory in Europe day. They put out flags and banner, rejoicing in the defeat of the nazi war machine. More than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Through the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the ending of World War 2. -
VJ Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ended World war 2. Japans capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
