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Japanese Invasion Of China
What: The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
Why: Japanese military demanded permission to enter the Chinese city of Wanping to search for a missing soldier. The Chinese refused. Later in the night, a unit of Japanese infantry attempted to breach Wanping's walled defences and were repulsed.
Effect: The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States began to aid China by airlifting material -
German Blitzkrieg
What Happened: A war tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces.
Why It Happened: They didn't want a deadlock like what happened in WWI.
Effects: Short Military Campaigns. -
Battle Of Britain
What Happened: Germany and Britain clashed in the air and there were bombings of military bases and Britain won and it saved them from a ground attack.
Why It Happened: Britain stood alone with only Germany and Britain was in a much better position to fight so they took the opportunity before Germany could rebuild
Effects: The win for Britain stopped a ground attack from Germany. -
Fall Of Paris
What the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
Why Britain and France offered military support to Poland
Effect France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and west and a "free zone" (zone libre) in the south. Both zones were nominally under the sovereignty of the French rump state headed by Pétain that replaced the French Third Republic -
Pearl Harbor
What Happened: A surprise military attack by Japanese military
Why it Happened: The USA liked china and the Japanese did not.
Effect: n all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Dry docks and airfields were likewise destroyed. Most important, 2,403 sailors, soldiers and civilians were killed and about 1,000 people were wounded. -
The Battle Of Midway
What Happened: Six months after pear harbor the USA and Japan went at in various naval battles
Why it Happened: Pearl Harbor
Effect: Heavy loss in Japanese ships -
Battle Of Stalingrad
What:The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
Why: The Soviet Union wanted control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
Effect: Stalingrad marked the first time that the Nazi government publicly acknowledged a failure in its war effort. -
Bataan Death March
What: the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American 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.
Why: Happened following the surrender of Bataan on April 9, 1942 to the Japanese Imperial Army
Effect: During the march, prisoners received little food or water, and many died. -
D-Day
What Happened: Code named 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 coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
Why: Destruction from Pearl Harbor
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Battle Of Iwo Jima
What: Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945.
Why: The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima, a key island in the Bonin chain roughly 575 miles from the Japanese coast, was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan.
Effect: American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. -
VE Day
What: About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.
Why: The main concern of many German soldiers was to elude the grasp of Soviet forces, to keep from being taken prisoner.
Effect: Germans are defeated and the USA and Britain celebrate and is now a holiday in britain. -
Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs
What: American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Why: warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties
Effect: Rip Hiroshima -
VJ Day
What: 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.”
Why: the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific.
Effect: brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
What: As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the Second World War, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners.
Why: To save Jews that were sent into concentration camps that may have survived
Effect:
The first intake of food proved fatal for many prisoners, too weak from starvation to digest it. For the survivors of the Nazi camps, the road to recovery would be long and painful. -
Battle Of The Bulge
What: Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name.
Why: Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.
Effect: USA suffered over 100,000 causalities
