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Japanese Invasion of China
The Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria because of the Manchurian incident that was staged by Japanese military personnel and then accused Chinese dissidents, Japan responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanjing Massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting. The event remains a contentious political issue and a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations. -
German Blitzkrieg
It was a method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defense by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them with the help of air superiority. Germany wanted to avoid a long war, the strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns that involved this tactic -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Germany bombarded Poland on land and from the air, Hitler wanted to regain the territory that Germany had lost from the Treaty of Versailles, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany because Hitler had invaded Poland -
Fall of Paris
Paris had fallen under control of the Nazis during World War in the Battle of France,the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The Japanese intended the attack to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions that were planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States, The U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War II -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. Hitler aimed to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans,, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. Germany was halted at Moscow and was pushed back. -
Baatan Death March
it was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war, over 5,000 to 18,000 Filipinos and 500 to 650 Americans were killed during the march. The march was characterized by severe physical abuse and wanton killings by the Japanese army, it was considered a Japanese war crime by an allied mission commission -
Battle of Midway
it was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942 with Japan versus the U.S. The Japanese hoped another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific. the U.S ambushed the Japanese at Midway and turned the tides against the Japanese -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was the battle for the control of the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union between the Soviets and Nazi Germany, Hitler had broke the armistice between him and the Soviet Union's leader Joseph Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviets had stopped the Germans advance and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
It was an act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, it opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. A total of 13,000 Jews died, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated and about 300 Germans were killed. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II, the success of the invasion would force Germany to fight a two front war, Germany invaded Italy and it took the allies 6 months to drive the Germans out of Italy. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region, the allies hope to liberate western Europe from Nazi Germany's control, by late August all of northern France had been liberated. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
During the final stages of war the allies began to liberated people inside concentration camps, The first major camp that was liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944 by the Soviets within the camp there sick and starving prisoners. The Nazis transported prisoners away from the front and deep into Germany when the Soviet Union advance from the east. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans surprised attacked the Allied troops in the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg it was intended to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor and allow the Germans to fully concentrate on the Soviets on the Eastern Front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army the invasion the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the Pacific War of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
it was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. the Allies were planning to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations for the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.at least 75,682 Allied were killed and 84,166–117,000 Japanese were killed [15] 149,425 Okinawans were killed, committed suicide or went missing. -
V-E Day
it was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The term V-E Day existed as early as September 1944 in anticipation of victory. On 30 April 1945 Hitler, the Nazi leader, committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany surrendered after his successor took over. Upon the defeat of Germany, celebrations erupted throughout the western world. -
Dropping of The Atomic Bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, Americans didn't want to go into a long war with japan after being in world war ll for 4 years, U.S scientists had created the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project during the war and President Truman allowed the bombs to be used against japan to avoid high american casualties, the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri, Japan didn't want to continue the war because of the devastation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese emperor surrenders for Japan in the sake of stopping more atomic bomb dropping
