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Japanese invasion of China
This is where Japan invades China on July 7 to September 9, 1937. China got helped from the Soviet Union and the United States. Some of the effects of this invasion is the Japan attacking on Pearl Harbor. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among the enemy forces. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland and it worked, so they attacked the Netherlands and France in 1940. Some of the effects of this military tactic were Germany conquering a lot more land, then they should have. -
Fall of Paris
France was going to defend their own country, instead of attacking other countries because of the troops they lost in WWI. Hitler wanted to attack France and started to attack on May 10, 1940. Germany wanted to claim more land, and they thought that France was weak, which they were because of WWI. Hitler took down Paris, and France was even poorer than before. -
Battle of Britain
n the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. It has been attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941. It was a surprise attack and worked, more than 2,400 Americans died and many naval ships/cargo was destroyed. After this attack, the President. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
In about three months the German authorities have deported or murdered 300,000 Jewish people in the Warsaw ghetto. Germany allowed 35,000 Jews to stay in the Warsaw ghetto but another 20,000 hid in the Warsaw ghetto fearing for their lives. Germany did not like the Jewish people, they started to deport people and burn books written by Jews. In effect, many Jewish people died and got deported from Germany. -
Allied invasion of Italy
British decides to invade Italy. Even though Italy and Britain were allies in the war. The reason why Britain invaded Italy was that they wanted to gain more land, they gained the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. After the invasion, the leader of Italy had been taken to jail and a new goverment was set in place. -
D-Day (Normandy landings)
The battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The battle started on June 6, where 150,000 troops from American, Canada and British forces attacked on France's Normandy region. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The Soviet Soldiers entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. The reasons for these camps were to keep all of the Jews from ruining the German government. Many Jews were suffered in these camps and were beat or killed. The effect of this is America raiding Germany to get out all of the Jews. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This is where the Americans took their first strike on the Japanese. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting and American took this to publication to make American look stronger. -
VE Day
This is the day that Great Britain and American celebrate the day that Great Britain gained victory from the Nazi war machine. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
This is the day that American started dropping Atomic bombs on Japan in Hiroshima. After these bombs were dropped, this declared WWII to be over, but people say this was the start of the Cold War. The President Harry S. Truman, wanted to invade Japan with American soliders, but he would know that many Americans would die, so they started to drop bombs. -
VJ Day
This was the day that Japan was surrendering and was defeated, this means that WWII would end. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Battle of the Bulge
On December 16, three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties.
