-
Japanese invasion of China
Japan invaded Manchuria.
Japan invaded china for natural resources.
Started a war between japan and china. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Polish Army was defeated within weeks.
On Sep 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
To Hitler invading Poland would bring "living space" for the German people. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu Hawaii.
The Barrage lasted 2 hours. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.
To end WWII and the Nazi domination of Europe.
The German troops advanced 50 miles into Allied lines creating the “bulge.” However on Jan 16th, 1945 Germany was defeated in the Battle of the Bulge and Germany retreats because of Allied resistance and shortage of supplies. In March 1945 US troops cross -
Battle of Iwo Jima
One-third of all Marine losses during World War II happened at Iwo Jima; it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts.
It occurred because the U.S. was following a military strategy of island hopping. In other words, they'd capture/recapture one island and use that island as a base to prepare for an invasion of the next island.
Effec was Americans the pinnacle of forcible entry from the sea. -
Battle of Okinowa
It wasLast and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign.The U.S. military wanted Okinawa for three reasons. American medium bombers could reach the Japanese home islands from Okinawa, its seizure would sever the remaining southwest supply lines to resource-hungry Japan, and Okinawa could be used as a support base for the scheduled November invasion of Japan proper.The Japanese lost 120,000 troops in the defense of Okinawa. -
VE Day
To mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The firestorm in Hiroshima ultimately destroyed 13 square kilometres (5 square miles) of the city. Almost 63% of the buildings in Hiroshima were completely destroyed after the bombing and nearly 92% of the structures in the city had been either destroyed or damaged by blast and fire.
Estimates of total deaths in Hiroshima have generally ranged between 100,000 and 180,000, out of a population of 350,000.Nagasaki boombingestimated casualtes ranged between 50,000 to 100,000 -
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. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostili
