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World War 2
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Japanese Invasion of China
The Invasion of China, also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. This war started before World War 2, but it ended on the same date of September 2, 1945. -
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German Blitzkrieg
The German Blitzkrieg was a method of war where the Germans used speed, surprise, and firepower superiority to create physical shock, and disorganization in enemy forces. -
Fall of Paris
Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14. They maintained control of the city until it was finally liberated by the Allies on August 25, 1944. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a military base that was attacked by the Japanese military. This attack came as a surprise to the US. The Japanese hope for this attack was that the entire U.S. Pacific fleet would be destroyed, and that the American people would become dishearted, and stop the war. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The main purpose of the meeting was to ensure the co-operation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the Final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. -
Bataan Death March
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
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. won this battle against the Japanese. -
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allied forces. The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944. -
The Invasion of Normandy
The invasion of Normandy was the first of phase of a larger plan operation overlord.The attack marked the largest amphibious invasion in world history. The allies won, and made the axis powers retreat, after establishing a beachhead. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, or the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia, and it ended with the American units retaking all ground they had lost. After this battle, the defeat of Germany was clearly only a matter of time. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan. The island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. American forces invaded the island, and after some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it’s believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines in the U.S. victory. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or V-E 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. -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
After Germany had surrendered, the allies focused completely on Japan. The allies gave Japan an ultimatum which was for Japan's unconditional surrender, or complete, and utter destruction. Japan refused the ultimatum, which resulted in the continuation of the war. Two weeks later an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and once again on Nagasaki 3 days later. After suffering huge civilian, and military casualties Japan finally surrendered, officially ending World War 2. -
V-J Day
V-J Day, otherwise known as victory over Japan day, marked the day that Japan officially surrendered, which ended World War 2.