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Japanese invasion of China
Resource Japan invaded China in 1937, thus launching the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It started off as a small little war to a big war. China was unable to go up against Japanese forces. Japan was so brutal that the Rape of Nanking took place. Japan moved up to the South taking control of Eastern China. -
Rape of Nanking
Resource During Japan's invasion over China, there was a lot of things happening. After Japanese soliders destroyed the POWs, they went after the women. Old women over the age of 70 and little girls under the age of 8 were seually abused. More than 20,000 females were gang-raped then killed after. The Japanese forced Chinese men to rape their own daughters, sons to rape their mothers, and brothers their sisters. -
German Blitzkrieg
Resource A military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Germany invades Poland
Resource In 1939, Germany bombed Poland from the air and on land. Hitler wanted to took control over lost territory and rule over Poland. He also came up with the blitzkrieg strategy. Which was to do early bombing on enemy's air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps; take control over troops, tanks, and artillery. -
Battle of France
Resource Also known as the Fall of Paris, in 1939 France declared war on Germany. Germany's attack, 'Code Yellow', was to bypass a strong French frontier. German troops crossed the Meuse river, and had broken through the French lines. 200,000 British and 140,000 French troops were evacuated to England after Hitler halted the advance of his troops on Dunkirk. -
Operation Barbarossa
Resource In 1941, Hitler and his army launched an invasion in Soviet Union. They had three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks. The battle stretched from North Cape to the Black Sea, -
Pearl Harbor
Resource Right before 8 a.m., hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii in 1941. This invasion lasted 2 hours. Japanese soliders destroyed 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soliders were killed, and 1,000 were wounded. This caused The U.S. to join in WW2!! -
Wannsee Conference
Resource On January 20, 1942, 15 Nazi Party and German government officials meet at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The people that was there were General Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Major General Heinrich Müller, Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, Colonel Eberhard Schöngarth, Major Rudolf Lange, etc. They disscused Final Solution of the Jewish Question. -
Battle of Miday
Resource 6 months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. defeated Japan in the most decisive naval battles of World War II. American combat forces took over where intelligence efforts left off. Scouts found the Japanese early in the morning of June 4. The Americans sanked Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu. The Japanese also lost the heavy cruiser Mikuma. -
Battle of Stalingard
Resource Lasted from July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943. Was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians considered it the greatest battle of the conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler. -
Operation Gomorrah
Resource In 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians cause of German bombings. -
D-Day
Resource Lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. 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. Was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
Resource In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe. Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense. -
Operation Thunderclap
Resource 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 Iwo Jima
Resource On Feb 19, 1945, American soliders made the first strike on Iwo Jima. Three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island. Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Iwo Jima soliders fought from caves, dugouts, tunnels, and underground installations. After a month of fighting, the U.S. was the one to come out in victory. -
Battle of Okinawa
Resource The Allied forces invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945. Japan was in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. It was the last and biggest war of the Pacific War. Lasted from April 1—June 22, 1945. 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army was the number of soliders in the war. -
VE Day
Resource Also known as Victory in Europe Day, U.S. and Great Britian put up banners and flags, showing the victory over the Nazis. On this day Germans had finally given up their fight against Europe. Germany had surrendered to Soviet Union losing more than 8,000 soliders. Alot of surrender documnets were signed because of Germany -
Potsdam Conference
Resource Lasted from July 17-August 2, 1945, held near Britian, was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan. -
Atomic Bombs
Resource At 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. 80,000 died and 35,000 were injured as the results of the bombing. President Harry Truman delcared that the U.S. should drop the bomb so it could end the war. Another name for the bomb was 'Little Boy'. -
VJ Day
Resource On August 14, 1945 Japan had surrenderd to the Allies. This was the offically end of WW2.
