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Japan Invades China
This was a miitary conflict fought primarliy between china and japan. China fought japan with some help from germany. After the fight china joinied the allies and issued a formal declartion war on japan. China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements so-called "incidents". The war was the result of a decades long Japanese imperialist policy aimed at expanding its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves and other economic resources. -
The Holocaust
It was state sponspered persecution and murder of six million jews by the nazis. 1.5 million children were killed and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities.These deaths represented two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry.The Jews who died were not casualties of the fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. -
Munich Conference
The conference was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers. Hitler had recently annexed Austria into Germany, and the conquest of Czechoslovakia was the next step in his plan of creating a “greater Germany.” The Czechoslovak government hoped that Britain and France would come to its assistance in the event of German invasion, but British Prime Minister Chamberlain was intent on averting war. -
Non Aggression Pact
They also called it the Nazi- Soviet Non-aggression pact. is a national treaty between two or more states/countries where the signatories promise not to engage in military action against each other. It has been found that major powers are more likely to start military conflicts against their partners in non-aggression pacts than against states that do not have any sort of alliance with them. -
Germany Invades Poland
In this war 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland by air and by land. Unleashing the first blitzkrieg, a strategy meaning “lightning war.” Planes, tank and air forces were deployed with stunning speed, and troops destroyed railroads and communications stations, infiltrated strongholds by posing as Polish military officers, and killed enemies with explosives guns and even sabers. -
Battle Of Britian
The Battle of britian was a german airforces attempt to gain air supperiorty. Britian was the first major campign to be fought entirely by air forces. It was the largest and most substained bombing to that date. The british forced hitler to postpone and cancel. -
Blitzerieg
This war was known as the lighting war. is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated
firepower.Blitzkrieg relied on a military force be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry foot soliders. The tactic was based on Alfred von Schlieffen’s ‘Schlieffen Plan’ – this was a doctrine formed during WWI that focused on quick miliatry victory. -
Lend- Lease Act
A law that allowed the us to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the axis powers.The act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle. Lend-Lease brought the United States one step closer to entry into the war. -
Operation Barbarossa
This was the code name for nazis germanys .Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union during world war II. ABout four million sodiers of the axis powers invaded soviet russia. They made it the largest invasion. Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR, -
The Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.On the southern end of Oahu, Pearl Harbor held a 22,000 acre naval base.Early in the morning on December 7, close to 360 Japanese planes attacked about 33 American ships. . America sustained a loss of 170 aircrafts that morning as well as18 ships. Three thousand seven hundred Americans lost their lives in one day but only a few japense died. -
Bataan Death March
The approximately 75,000 mexican and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
The Battle Of Midway
This battle was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
This battle was a major battle of world war II and in which nazi germany and its allies fought the soviet union for the contol of the city of stalingrad. This battle was the turing point in world war II. The german offensive to capture began in a late summer 1942 using the 6th army and elments of the panzer 4th. The fighting degrented into building to building fighting. -
D-Day
This resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Battle Of The Bulge
A battle during World War II. in December 1944 Von Rundstedt launched a powerful counter offensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise. Hitler had convinced himself britian, france and america in the weastern. Europe was not strong enough and that the major attack and defeat would break up the alliance. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East.Iwo Jima was considered to have great tactical importance. There were two airfields on the island – under Japan’s control; they could be used by Japanese fighter planes to attack American bombers on their flights to Japan. Under American control, the airfields could be used as emergency landing bases for damaged airplanes in the bombing raids. -
The Battle Of Okinawa
It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II.It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. they faced an estimated 155,000 Japanese ground, air and naval troops holding an immense island on which an estimated 500,000 civilians lived in cities, towns and villages. -
V-E Day
V-E Was the public holiday of the year. On April 30 Hitler commited suicide during the battle of britian. They celberated in london when the war was over. Winston Churchill declared May 8, 1945, to be "Victory in Europe Day" after a gruelling five-year war against Nazi Germany and its allies.
The day before, people had already started celebrating the news that Hitler had committed suicide in his so-called Fuehrerbunker in Berlin days prior, and Germany has surrendered unconditionally. -
The Bombing Of Hiroshima/ Nagaski
The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. The war in Europe had concluded when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945, but with the Japanese refusal to accept the Allies' demands for unconditional surrender, -
V-J Day
Is a name choosen for the day on which japn surrenderd. It was effect ending world war 1. Everybody was so exicted about this date that was made. That is the most popular date. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was an collective defense treaty amoung eitght commuist states. It was a political and military alliance. the Warsaw Pact has served as one of the Soviet Union's primary mechanism for keeping its East European allies under its political and military control.
