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Japanese invasion on China
japanese Durring the 1930s china was sepperated. In 1931 Japan was in need of the natural resorces found in china. skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops on the frontier led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The fighting caused the second Sino-Japanese war. The was resulted in 10-20 million chinese civilian deaths. -
Rape of Nanking
Summer of 1937 the battle of Shanghai began. The japanese won, and sent 50,000 marhcing into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. After they turned their attention to chinese girls. They would rape and kill them. After a while they kind of backed off for a while. And an estimate of 50,000 became adicted to herion. -
German Blitzkreig
Blitzkrieg
The Blitzkraig was a form of attack. They would get many planes and tanks and all attack at once in one big "lighting war". the Soviet Union launched a counteroffensive in November 1942, trapping and destroying an entire German army at Stalingrad. Germany ended up not being able to defeat Te Soviet Unon. -
Germanys invasion on Poland
germany
In the 1930s Hitlers first major plan to deal with foreign countries was to sing a nonagression agreement with them. Later germany signed a nonagression agreement with the soviet union, there for they could invade poland without them interfering. Within weeks of invasion the whole polish army was defeated. Due to Frence and Britian having ties with Poland, they declared war on Germany. -
Pearl Harbon
pearl harbor
At 8 am December 7th hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The war only lasted two hours or so but it was horrible. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded -
Bataan Death March
death march
The surrendered Filipinos were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. The men were divided into groups of approximately 100, and what became known as the Bataan Death March typically took each group around five days to complete. America avenged its defeat with the invasion of the island of Leyte in Oct 1944 -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
warsaw ghetto uprising
In 1942 the Germans killed about 300,000 jews, and deported 265,000 and forced 11,580 to forced-labor camps. In responce several Jewish underground organisations created an armed slef deffence unit. -
D Day
d day
The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. These en had 200 feet of open beach to run before they found cover. Over 4000 died and over 10000 casualties, but they still reached their goal. -
Liberation of concentration camps
liberation
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima
The American invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II came from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. -
VE Day
VE
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Battle of Okinawa
okinawaThe last and the biggest pasific battles of World War 2 was the battle of Okinawa. It involved 287,00 U.S. troops vs 130,000 Japanese troops. Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs.
Atomic
8:16 a.m. Japanese time, 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 blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
VJ Day
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
Battle of the Bulge
bulge
Germany said they were to make a cut through the allied forces that would turn the war in Hitler's favor.more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun when Allied troops landed in France on D-Day. After a day of fighting Germans broke the American Front.
