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Japanese attack on China
This attack was Japan attacking China's troops on the frontier of Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This attack sparked the second Sino-Japanese War. Japan captured all key Chinese ports and industrial centres. Japanese troops slaughtered 300,000 civilians and raped 80,000 women. By 1940 the war descended into stalemate. -
German's invasion of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.This invasion was extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. -
Fall of Paris
On this day German troops entered paris, 2 million persians had fled paris before germans entered. Germans arrested persans and took over paris all in a day of work. This happened because Germany wanted to take over Paris. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler sent his troops eastward in a massive invasion of the Sobiet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea. It was a crucial turning point of WWll. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack lasted two hours and was not expected. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
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.This fleet engagement between 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 destruction at Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the soviet defence of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S,R. during WWll. It was one of the bloodest battles in history, with combined military and civilan casualties of nearly 2 million. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raided Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day. Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July.The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. -
D-Day
The Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
A major German offensive is launched against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region on the Western Front. Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap’ had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. -
Battle of Iowa Jima
American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. Three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island. Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from networks of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. -
Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. Involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Germans surrendered to the soviet uniom and lost 8,000 troops. -
Postdam Declaration
This event was the allied conference of World War ll held at Postdam. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.The confrences discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
United states drops the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.This marked the end of World War ll. The atomic bomb process started with the Manhattan Project. The first bomb was ready in the summer of 1945. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
