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Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre was a mass murder and rape against the citizens of Nanjing by Japanese troops. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack from Japan's army on the U.S' naval base. Japan wanted the US to remain neutral in the war so they decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. This attack is what led the United States into WW 2. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the transfer of Filipino and American prisoners of war, lead forcibly by the Imperial Japanese Army. -
D-Day(Normandy Invasion)
The Battle of Normandy nicknamed Operation Overlord, was an invasion of Western Europe, which was occupied by the Germans during WW2. The Operation consisted of a 1,200-plane airborne assault, an underwater assault of 5,000 vessels. Over 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August. -
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
The first time they found one of these camps they found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. That day the Germans had been forced to leave their post. Among the things left behind were tens of thousands of pairs of shoes. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during WW2. This was a surprise attack on the Allied forces, and caught them completely off guard. The american forces took most of the hits during the attacks and had the highest number of casualties. Germany's armed forces were also severely drained, which caused them to sustain a lot of casualties as well. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan.This battle lasted five weeks and was one of the bloodiest and fiercest fought battles of the Pacific War of World War 2. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day is a public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bom
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb immediately killed 80,000 people. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan day, on which Japan surrendered in WW2, ending the war.
