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Japanese invasion of China (1937)
Japan invaded china because they had a lack of natural resources in japan and they were apart of china when this happened. They didnt have enough resources in japan so they invaded china because Japan needed Manchuria, the industrial center of China, to produce steel and food for their growing population. -
Rape of Nanking (1937)
The rape of Nanking happen in Nanking by Japanese troops on people living there. 50,000-300,000 dead during the second Sino-Japanese -
Germany's invasion of Poland (1939)
On september 1 1939 the nazi army under adulf hitler invaded poland which began the start of world war ll. Germany won in about the first month. -
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
In May 1940 came Germany's invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands and France, during which the german army used the combined force of tanks, mobile infantry and artillery troops to drive through the Ardennes Forest and quickly penetrated the Allied defenses. -
Fall of Paris (1940)
The Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. September 3rd France declared war on Germany following the invasion of its ally Poland. and Germany won this. -
Pearl Harbor(1941)
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, by the prepared military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, in Hawaii -
Bataan Death March (1942)
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Battle of Midway (1942)
The battle of Midway was a naval battle that took place in the pacific ocean of world war 2. It was from Jun 4 1942 to Jun 7 1942. Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. America won this battle. -
battle of Stalingrad (1942)
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Soviet victory, Destruction of the German 6th Army -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. -
Allied invasion of Italy (1943)
This was an invasion of the allied forces against Italy, on there main land that took place on September 3rd 1943. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. The allies won. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified base. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans -
Operation Thunderclap (1945)
On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing roughly 25,000 people. Despite the horrendous scale of destruction, accomplished little strategically, since the Germans were already about to surrender. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa (1945)
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 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.Allied army won. -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany's Nazi. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division. -
VE Day (1945)
VE day is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on 8 May 1945. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
The united States dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan with the consent of the United Kingdom. US dropped them august 6th and 9th on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Which resulted in Japan surrendering and the Allies winning the war. -
VJ Day (1945)
VJ day is the day US had victory over Imperial Japan and when they surrender in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. On September 2, 1945, a surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.Western Allied offensive plans delayed by five or six weeks. German offensive exhausts their resources on the Western Front. German collapse opens way for the Allies to ultimately break the Siegfried Line.
