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Japanese invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, -but the real battles starts on 7 July 1937 - when Manchuria was invaded by the Japanese Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately after the incident of Mukden . The Japanese have created is a puppet state called Manchukuo , and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II . -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre also called Rape of Nanking , is an event of the second Sino-Japanese War , which took place from December 1937, after the Battle of Nanking. During the six weeks during the Nanjing massacre , hundreds of thousands of civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed and between 20 000 and 80 000 women and children are raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm -
German Blitzkrieg
The objective of the Blitzkrieg is to destabilize the enemy to prevent him from re-establishing a solid front line once the initial breakthrough. The three essential elements are surprise , speed of maneuver and the brutality of the assault. The best known example is the first phase of the campaign in France in 1940. The Germans have considerably fewer tanks than the Allies and they are lighter and less powerful . However, the massive concentration of tanks in some points allows to win. -
Phoney War
The "phony war " ( German Sitzkrieg " war sitting "; in Polish Dziwna wojna " surprising war ') is the name given to the period from the beginning of the Second War world that lies between the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France ( the Allies ) to Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 and the German offensive of May 10, 1940 in the European theater of the conflict. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/the-phoney-war/ -
Germany's invasion of Poland
The German Army crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 on the orders of Hitler. For world opinion , there is little doubt that this attack without previous declaration of war marks the beginning of World War II . With its first successes on the international scene , he immediately began to claim Danzig ( Gdansk in Polish) , whose population is predominantly German . This is a "free city" established by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 to spare Poland an access port on the Baltic Sea . -
Fall of Paris
Paris , declared an open city , was delivered to the enemy without fighting to avoid the fate of Warsaw. The government left for Bordeaux, while Germans are at the gates of the city. Rapes and killings are feared and scare away the Parisians to the Loire seems the last bastion. But there is no defense against the Stukas . June 14, 1940, at dawn , the Germans are within Paris and then flew the swastika on the Eiffel Tower. http://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,,128218,00.html -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa), named in reference to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa is the code name for the invasion by the Third Reich to the Soviet Union during World War II. Operation Barbarossa is the largest invasion in military history in terms of staff engaged and losses: nearly four million Axis soldiers enter the Soviet Union. http://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack is a surprise attack by Japanese naval air December 7, 1941 at the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, in the archipelago of the US territory of Hawaii, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. This attack was to destroy the fleet of the United States Navy and led to the US entry into the Second World War http://www.britannica.com/event/Pearl-Harbor-attack -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference held in the villa Marlier Berlin, 20 January 1942, fifteen senior officials of ministries and police of the Third Reich to develop the administrative, technical and economic organization of the "final solution of the question Jewish ", wanted by Hitler and then implemented, on his instructions, by Goering, Himmler, Heydrich and collaborator of the previous one: Eichmann. https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007712 -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad happened on July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, for Stalingrad, between the forces of the USSR and those of the Third Reich. They include the approach to the city by the armies of the Axis, urban fighting for his conquest from September and the Soviet offensive against-up encirclement and surrender of German troops. All these fights, in and out of the city, spanned just over six months and cost the lives of about 750,000 combatants and 250 000 civilians from six nations. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Jewish Fighting Organization was born in the heart of the great deportation of July 1942. This is the main organization of Jewish resistance. It manifests first time on January 18, 1943. The uprising began April 19, 1943, the eve of Pesach, The jewish easter, in response to a last roundup organized by the Nazis. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188 -
Operation Gomorrah
The Gomorrah operation, is the code name of the military campaign of seven close air raids on the German city of Hamburg between July 25 and August 3, 1943 by the bombers of the air forces British and American. Its purpose was mainly to destroy the city in order to demoralize the enemy, and in passing reduce the German military-industrial capacity, last objective that has not really been achieved. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-gomorrah-is-l -
D-Day
The D-Day was the military expression used by militarians for the invade of Normandy (France); first military action who led to the win of the allied on the Nazi Germany. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work.
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Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge is the largest, most challenging and bloodiest battle fought by the US Army during World War II, including the Pacific theater. It finally sees, in January 1945 confrontation over one million men, 840,000 Americans against 500,000 Germans. In the American collective memory, it is even the biggest battle of the military history of the United States since their foundation. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/see-hear/collections/focus-on/bulge-70th.html? -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima is the assault during the Pacific War, led by US forces on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, a small island that is part of Ogasawara, solidly defended by the Japanese Imperial Army. It took place between February and March 1945 and ended with the conquest of the island by the Americans at the price of 20,703 killed and missing Japanese in 1152 (almost all of the garrison) and 6821 killed, 492 missing and 19 189 American casualties. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg codename), which took place in Okinawa archipelago in Japan, is the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific campaign during World War II. The battle lasted 82 days between April 1 and June 22, 1945 http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm -
VE Day
The VE Day (wictory in Europe Day) is, as its name shows, the day of the official end of war in Europe. -
Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last strategic bombing of Japan, took place on 6 and 9 August 1945 in the United States initiative on the historic centers of Hiroshima (340 000) and Nagasaki ( 195 000 inhabitants), two cities with no real goals or military defense, chosen at the last minute to replace the historic cities of Kyoto and Kokura. ---- -
Nagazaki
----- This was, in consequence to the Japanese leaders whom had rejected some of the conditions of the Potsdam Conference , to terrorize the population and to impose a Japan Treaty of unconditional surrender with the ousting of Emperor Hirohito and adoption of a Western political system. http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/history/index.html -
VJ Day
The VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) is the day, as the name tells, where the victory over Japan is signed ; The emperor Hirohito personally announced the surrender of Japan. Acts of unconditional surrender of Japan were signed on September 2 and close almost six years to the day after it began the Second World War. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/at-a-glance/v-j-day.html
