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Japanese Invasion Of China
The Japanese Invasion Of China happened because the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. The Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. Afterwards, the war brought to Chinese society, a university of suffering. Many people were killed. The war destroyed much of the cohesion of Chinese society. -
The Rape Of Nanking
During the Sino-Japanese War, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces and the Chinese government flees to Hankow, further island along Yangtze River. To break the spirt of Chinese resistance, Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Shortly after the end of WW2, Matsui was found guilty of war crimes by the international Military Tribunal for the Far East and executed. -
German Blitzkrieg
The German Blitzkrieg (lightning war), happened because Germany wanted to build its empire, and,
was a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It resulted in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. -
Germany's Invasion Of Poland
During Germany's Invasion of Poland, 1.5 million troops invade Poland. Simultaneouly, the German luftwaffle bombed Polish airfields. German warships and U-boats attacks polish naval forces in the Battic sea. This war happened because Hitler thought the conquert of Poland would bring Lebensraumor " Living space" for thwe German people. And, more than 2000 tanks and over 1000 plams were killed in war. -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German Military operation of WW2. Hitler invaded the USSR because he wanted to defeat comunism happening in USSR, take over the land and use the Soviet people for slave labor. It ended in enormous losses in territory,men and weaponry. -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It had happened because the Japanese wanted to show that they had superiority of Asia and The Pacific. They were sure that the USA would become involved in their claims in Asia, and they wanted to destroy our Navy, the 7th fleet, based at Pearl Harbor. 3500 Americans were killed or wounded, 18 ships sank or badly damaged, and over 350 destroyed or damaged air crafts. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. It was the place where " The Final Solution " was fomally to non-Nazi leaders who would help arrange for Jews to be transported frm all over German-occupied Europle to SS-opperated "extermination " camps in Poland. -
Battle Of Midway
As part of a strategy to widen its sphere of influence and conquest, the Japanese set their sights on an island group in the central Pacific, Midway, as well as the Aleutians, off the coast of Alaska. It was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of WW2. -
Battle Of Stalingrad
It was the major battle of WW2 in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingradin the South-Western Soviet Union. General Paulus surrendered without Hitler's permission. With this surrender, the Germans failed and 91,000 German's were taken prisoner. Because of this, Paulus is stripped of his rank and Hitler declared a day of mourning, not for the men that were lost during battle but for the shame he felt Paulud brought to the German army. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War Two & which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. More than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to camps. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany by night in operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz week" Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July, leading them to bomb Hamburg. -
D-Day
D-Day was the beginning of the end for not oly the German's but Hitler most of all. It had happened to end WW2 and the Nazi domination of Europe. More than 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortifed French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches or Normand, France. -
Battle of the Bulge
Major German offensive campaign launced through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of WW2 in Europe. German losses were greater than their army could take. Approx. 30,000 soldiers and 44,000 infantry forces were killed or captured. It had happened becuase of Hitler's plan to launch a counter-offensive to thrust through the allied armies in the Ardennes region of Northwest Europe & recapture Antwerp in Belgium. -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
The Battle Of Iwo Jima was the US invasion on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima because the US was following a miliary strategy of island hopping and need for a base near the Japanese coast. -
Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa & engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War, it was the 3-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the far East -
VE Day
Victory In Europe Day, officially announced the end of WW2 in Europe -
Potsdam Decleration
The Potsdam decleration, or The Proclamation Defining Terms for the Japanese surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during WW2. -
Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb
An American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the World's first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the result of the blast, and another 35,000 injured -
VJ Day
The news of Japan's surrender was announced to the world. September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2nd to be " VJ Day " -
Operation Thunderclap
Intensive bombing of targets was carried out with the intention of disrupting the rear areas of the German Eastern Front lines, to aid the solved advance, as had been requested by the Soviets at the Yalta Conference. These raids were large ones but less massive than in the Original Thunderclap plan
