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Rape of Nanjing
The Rape of Nanjing was an event that took place in the China's capital Nanjing, which at the time had been captured by the Japanese commanding General Matsui Iwane. Matsui gave many orders such as mass executions', raping's and the burning and looting of the nearby towns. Which at the end had an estimated 300,000 dead. Main effect on WWII is it occupied Japan with other problems trying to gain raw materials from Japan so they could attack America. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was an agreement or rather an appeasement, where Britain offered Hitler (Nazi Party) a chuck of Czechoslovakia called Sudeten. Which had the best army in all of Europe, In return he would prevent another war. The lasting effect, would be allowing Hitler to gain more land and therefore more power and only "fueled the fire" leading to World War II. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Non-aggressive pact was an non aggressive treaty that was in between Germany and Russia. The agreement was to put Poland in between the two super-power countries as a buffer zone or border not be claimed. The treaty itself did not last long at all, only a few days. After Hitler invaded Poland, the treaty was broken. Russia then joined the Axis powers, enabling them to attack Germany in revenge, helping win World War Two. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was launched on September 1, 1939, early dawn. Germany used false justification, claiming Poland was killing ethnic Germans in Poland, as well as Plotting with its Allies, Britain and France to dismember and circle Germany. Germany used ¨Bliezkreig" or Lightning War. Where they used surprise attacks with fast-moving forces and armored units and overwhelming airpower. Poland's response was too slow and lost within a couple of weeks. Impact; that was the beginning of the war -
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Genocide
Genocide is the deliberate killing and mass execution of people from a certain nation or ethnic group with the main goal to hurt and destroy
During World War II the most famous case of genocide would be The Holocaust; The Holocaust was driven by Hitler and the Nazi party to exterminate Jews, as well as anyone who would interfere with his plans. In the end, He killed an estimated 6 million worth of Jews by sending them to concentration camps and eventually placing them in gas chambers. -
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Women in the war
Women in the war played a significant role by keeping the homefront running and productive.
Women would often presume the roles that males would have such as; nursing wounded soldiers, farming, running shipyards, railroads and most importantly making ammunition. -
Dunkirk
Dunkirk was actually an evacuation and not a battle as one might think. Dunkirk was at the time a British Base where many allied troops recovered. On May 26th, 1940 it was attacked by Hitler and the Nazi party. The plan was to attack from the southeast, but the allied troops fled southeast on the water, using many naval boats to save 198,000 British and 140,000 French troops from death. The impacts? being able to fight another day and serve your country once again. -
Operation Barbossa
Operation Barbossa (originally Operation Fritz) Was the signal or code name for German forces to attack The soviets. Though Hitler's original plan was to conquer the west than the east, he figured he might as well deal with the U.S.S.R now or later. Which at the time was his biggest ¨emotional convictor¨. Failure to do so resulted in a major turning point in the war, -
Pearl Harbour
The attack on pearl harbor was provoked by severed trade with Japan and the aiding of China, a year-round enemy. Without trade from America, China had no valuable resources, so it hatched a plan. If they were to attack Us naval forces maybe they could neutralize them. On December 7th Japan attacked pearl harbor on Oahu Hawaii at 7:55 am killing 2,300 personnel Which backfired insanely, Japan not only pulled America into the war, it also ¨woke a sleeping giant¨. America then joined the war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was arguable the greatest and significant battle in all of World War II. While the Soviet union significantly weakened Germans military power it also turned the nature of the war into the Allies favor. Hitler's main goal was capture the city in order to cut transportation off from South Russia. Germany gained a good portion of Russia before being surrounded and flanked by the soviets being forced to surrender. The Axis loosing about 800,000 and the Allied: 100,000,000. -
Tunisian Campaign
Tisane campaign consisted of a series of multiple battles between the allied and axis powers. The battle was initially in favor of Germany Panzer Armee. Before there were supply interdictions which overall led to the defeat of the axis powers. Over 250,000 prisoners of war from Germany and Italy were taken including some of the natives (Africa korps). -
D-Day
D-day also known as operation overlord is celebrated as the day the allied powers invaded Normandy's coast. Their main goal to liberate France. Transporting 156,000 British, U.S. and Canadian troops through the English channel on 5,000 boats and 10,000 planes marching Normandy's beaches in the most ambitious charge in history. While also pushing or rather pinning Germany in to the soviets who had previously had a good share of war and mortality rates, and was not afraid to force revenge. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6th, 1944, America launched a nuke called Little Boy in Hiroshima Japan, 3 days later on August 9th America dropped another Nuke on Nagasaki Japan; Fat Man. Initially, in between the two bombings, Japan had surrendered, however, America had not gotten it in time. The aftermath ended with tens of thousands dead, with the remaining survivors having to succumb to nuclear radiation. Left with nothing but devastation: Japan surrendered, ending World War II.