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Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. The battle was marked by changes in Japanese defense tactics–troops. The Japanese fought from an elaborate network of caves -
The Japanese Invasion of China
Japans invasion of china occurred because of Japans desire to become an imperial power. Japan needed resources which they lacked both resources and space, which China had. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
Fall of Paris
Germans rolled their tanks into paris and by the time they had nearly 2 million people had already fled and were unwilling to fight. -
German Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The term blitzkrieg was in fact never used in the title of a German military manual or handbook. Nor is it to be widely found in the memoirs or correspondence of German generals. The word was used in the Wehrmacht during World War II -
Operation Barbarossa
An operation designed and brought by Hitler which eventually failed like the rest of the opertations. -
Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. It only lasted 2 hours but the attack was horrible -
Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution. The nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population -
Bataan Death March
Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile, (hence why it's called the death march). Many died on this march alone because of starvation or dehydration. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on pearl harbor. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II -
Operation Gomorrah
Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids, on the evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Battle of Normandy, lasted from June 1944 to August 1944. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May 1940.on June 11, over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The battle went on for around three weeks, resulting in a massive loss of American life. -
Operation Thundercap
Operation Thunderclap was a code made that was never dismantled. Churchhill had instigated the mass bombings -
Battle of Okinawa
(April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese. The Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks. A series of defense lines across the island, both north and south of the American landing beaches, enabled the Japanese to start it -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
The USA dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The dropping of the bomb marked an end to WWII. -
VJ Day
a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. VJ meaning " Victory over Japan" is when we conquered Japan -
The Nuremburg Trials of Nazis
they were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II. They were held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice
