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Japanese invasion of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle. -
German Blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war", blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially known as the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Fall of Paris (1940)
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. -
Operation Barbarossa
This operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.” -
Bataan Death March
The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan -
D-Day (normandy invasion)
the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 , with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. -
VE day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day (Great Britain) or V-E Day (North America), or simply as V-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. -
LIberation of Concentration
It was the largest extermination and concentration camp, to which over a million people had been deported from all over Europe. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
An american B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ- Day
The day (August 14) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.