-
Period: to
Japanese invasion of China (1937)
Japanese invasion of China (1937)The Second Sino Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan on July 7, 1937 through Sept. 9, 1945. China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United State. Japanese quickly captured all Chinese’s important port and industrial centers. At the end of the war there were 10 to 20 million Chinese civilians death. The purpose for the invasion was due to Japan’s desire to be an Imperial power. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking or Rape of Nanjing, was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing then capital of the Republic of China. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants.The massacre has been either exaggerated or fabricated for propaganda purposes. -
Period: to
Germany’s invasion of Poland (1939)
he Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939 - Captured WWII German films_Full Length Historical DocumentaryOperation Gomorrah is codenamed for the battle of Hamburg, lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. The attacked killed 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city. This attack was a joint British-American venture. British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week”. Hamburg was well defended. The purpose for the attack of Operation Gomorrah was for the Nazi Germany to make peace. -
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
The German term for “lightning war” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, The Netherlands, and France in 1940. The aim of Germans was to achieve victory by threatening enemy’s line of supplies and forcing them to fight. The result would be quick, decisive victories for a state. -
Period: to
Fall of Paris (1940)
German victory march through Paris june 1940 Parade deutscher Truppen (Pariser EinzugsmarschAdolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, leading Winston Churchill to remark, Shortly afterwards, thank god for the French army. To Churchill at the time, France's army seemed powerful butwark against possible Nazi aggression toward other European nations. The attack began on 10 may 1940, w/Germams air raids on Belgium and Holland , followed by parachute drops and attacks by ground forces. The two beleaguered nations were nastily added to the anti- German ad-hoc coalition that inc. France. -
Period: to
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Through June 22 to December Northern Russia starting Operation Barbarossa. It included Soviet planes flying over Moscow, prisoners going into camps, and soldiers at war. The casualties included 800,000 plus and ended with 167,347 killed and many wounded or missing in action. Operation Barbarossa was the codename for the nazi invasion led by Hitler to conquer Soviet territory. The result was the failure to defeat the Soviet union. -
Pearl Harbor (1941)
The attack on Pearl Harbor was the surprise attack of the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base on December 7,1941. Japan intended to attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions of Empire of Japan in Southeast Asia against overseas territories in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and U.S. It resulted to the United States entering into World War II. -
Wannsee Conference(1942)
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin Suburb of Wannsee.The purpose of the conference was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question. No one opposed his absolute authority in the matter of the solution and several participants offered to lend a helping hand. The result was the German Jews were deported to the ghettos or killed. -
Bataan Death March
After April 9,1942, the U.S surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, their were about 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan who were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japenese Invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the American. -
Battle Of Midway (1942)
Between 3 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku. This fleet engagement betweeb U.S.and Japanese navies in the north central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan's desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah (1943)Operation Gomorrah is codenamed for the battle of Hamburg, lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. The attacked killed 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city. This attack was a joint British-American venture. British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week”. Hamburg was well defended. The purpose for the attack of Operation Gomorrah was for the Nazi Germany to make peace. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
More than 160,000 British, American, Canadian, and French Allied troops landed along a 50-mile fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. Prior to this event, Germany invaded France. First paratroopers began to attack in the night behind enemy lines, then bombs dropped on Germany defenses, and finally troops stormed the beaches.The Normandy Invasion was the turning point in WW2, where the Allied Forces began to push Germany out of France. -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they encountered 10 of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance, the Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp. -
Period: to
Battle of the Bulge
World War II in HD: Battle of the Bulge | History After the Allies had freed France from Germany, in the morning of December 16,1944, Adolf Hitler led Germany to battle against the Allies in Belgium. Germany used over 200,000 troops, nearly 1,000 tanks, and English-speaking German spies to quickly break through the US lines. However, the US troops stood their ground until reinforcements came. The result of their fierce fighting won the battle. -
Operation Thunderclap
Originally planned in August 1944, Operation Thunderclap was a massive attack plan on Berlin to kill key German personnel, which would shatter German morale but was deemed unlikey to work. It was reconsidered in 1945, but was rejected again and instead several small attacks against the Eastern German Front were iniciated. It resulted in the bombing of these cities, including more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs in Dresden, Germany. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Near the end of World War II, on February 19, 1945, US Marines landed on the Island of Iwo Jima. The US strategically chose the island as a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. 30,000 US Marines landed on the shores, where Japanese dug secret tunnels all over the island waiting to attack them. The US thought it would take a week to take control of the island, but due to the Japanese defenses it took 36 days for the US to capture the island on March 26. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last of the Pacific Island battles involved 287,000 US troops against 130,000 Japanese soldiers. Capturing Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Despite the Japanese using kamikaze tactics, they lost over 77,000 soldiers and lost the battle. The Allies lost over 14,000 troops and had more than 65,000 casualities. The battle ended June 22, 1945. -
VE Day (1945)
Victory in Europe Day is generally known as V-E Day. It was the public holiday celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It marked the end of World War II in Europe. On this day, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations put out flags and banners. . All over the country people held fancy dress parades for children, got drunk, and sang. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima. 80,000 were killed and another 35,000 were injured.U.S President, Harry S.Truman made the decision to us the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a greater loss of life in the U.S to invade the Japanese mainland. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb and only 28,000 remained after. There were spontaneous fires set as a result of the bomb. -
VJ Day (1945)
Victory over Japan Day is also known as V-J Day. On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. On August 14, 1945 President Harry Truman announced from the White House that the Japanese acceptance met the terms laid down at the Potsdam Conference for unconditional surrender. But as soon as the new of Japan’s surrender was announced, celebrations erupted across the United States and other countries.
