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Rape of Nanking
Japanese wanted revenge that was to follow at Nanking. On December of 1937, the Japanese Army had marched into China's capital city of Nanking and went to murder about 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldier thought the city. The six weeks of that killing scene would become known as the Rape of Nanking and become the single worst cruel act during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. www.historyplace.com -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military carefully designed technology to create lack in training among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland with successful results. The blitzkrieg was also used by German commander Erwin Rommel during the North African campaign of World War II, and got in the hands of U.S. General George Patton for his army’s European operations. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces came in a big fight in the air, where the largest bombing spot was born.The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of aiming to end Britain’s air bases, military posts and kill its civilian population. Britain’s victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces while proving that air power alone could be used to win a major war. www.history.com -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base. A surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941,before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, Japanese fighter planes had attacked on the base, where they had destroy 20 American naval vessels, including eight big battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, and 1,000 people were wounded. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. That's how U.S. entered the WW2. www.history.com -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, about more than 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a heavy,strong, and good 65-mile walk or away to prison camps. The marchers made a great force of heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands suffer death in what had became the Bataan Death March. www.history.com -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack in Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. The United States were able to stop Japan and prepare for Japanese surprise attack so it wouldn't be of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.This was an major thing in World War ll in Pacific campaign, this has allowed the United States and other nations to fight in an offensive position.www.history.com -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad, during World War II. Russians believed it was the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the battle was to stop the Germany to advance into the Soviet Union, which they did and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad is believed to be on of the bloodiest battles in history, total of 2 million casualties. -
Operation Gomorrah
On July 24 British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. The explosive power was the the same amount of what German bombers had dropped on London in their five most destructive raids. About more than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid. -
D-Day
D-Day was the largest invasion in history. Juno and Sword, as did the Americans at Utha Beach. U.S. forces faced an large invaion at Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties. However, at the end of the day approximately 156,000 Allied troops had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches.Over 13,000 aircraft and 5,000 ships were in the operation. more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing. www.history.com -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The cause of the war was revenge over U.S. for B-29 bombers damaged over Japan. Iwo Jima were fighting with roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, which had fought in the caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Beside the hard conditions, the marines defeated the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle was in U.S. hands which the U.S. flag being raised in victory.www.history.com -
Battle of Okinawa
On April 1, 1945 the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops fall downward on the Pacific island of Okinawa to defeat Japan. The attake was part of Operation Iceberg, a plan were U.S. wanted to get the Ryukyu Islands, and Okinawa. The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. www.history.com -
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
V-E Day means Victory in Europe Day. V-E Day is for the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, ending World War 2 in Europe. Adolf Hitler killed himself by his own hand so that meant there was no more leader for the Nazi. German military leaders had signed the surrender documents on May 7, 1945. This does not mean the war is over. There was still war outside European
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
U.S. President Harry S. Truman, did not think it was wise what the Japanese said to the Potsdam Conference demand for unconditional surrender, use atom bomb to end the war. So American B-29 bomber Enola Gay,had dropped the world’s first atom bomb every in World War 2, over the city of Hiroshima. About more than 80,000 people are killed as the atomic bomb had been dropped, there were 35,000 injured. End of the year more than 60,000 would be dead from the effects of the fallout. www.history.com -
V-J Day (Victory Japan Day)
August 14, 1945 is known for when Japan had surrendered with no condition to the Allies, that ended World War II. This day is known as V-J Day. V-J Day is also for September 2, 1945, where Japan’s surrender had took place on the battleship called U.S.S. Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. May people celebrate V-J Day, especially United States as it was the day they were waiting for since Japan's surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. www.history.com -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans had the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans created a “bulge” around the Ardennes forest in backing the American defensive line. Close to 20,000 were killed, 20,000 were captured, and 40,000 were wounded. The United States had suffered its second-largest surrender of troops of the war. www.history.com
