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Japanese Invasion Of China
www.history,co.ukthe Japanese wanted China's resourses . So they planned to invade China's lands. At that time they were having a civil war between the communists(CCP) and nationalist(KMT). After the marco polo bridge incident the CCP and the KMT decide to work together the stop the huge threat that japan holded against them. -
Raping of Nanking
Rape of Nankingafter the japanese defeated china in shanghai. In november 50,000soldiers marched to nanking with only one order " kill all captivies" . after 90,000chinese soldierssurrendered from the japanese code of bushido. the bushido code means you never surrender. so they saw the chinese less than humanand they started excuting The POW (prision of war). they japanese during that time starting paying more attention towards the women of Nanking from ages 70 to 8 all of them were sexually abused and raped -
Germany's Blitzkreig war tactic
www.history.comblitzkrieg means "lightning war" its a war tactic that makes the enemy unorganized so making them easier to defeat and conquor -
Germanys invasion of poland
Germany's Invasion of Polandthe germany-soviet pact made in 1939 so poland would be split between two powers so germany could successfully attack poland without fear of soviet joining in the fight they attack poland with 2,000 tanks and 1,000 plans after a few weeks they got poland. -
Pearl Harbor
www.history.comAt about 8 a.m., Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. Bombs and bullets rained onto the vessels moored below. At 8:10, a 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona and landed in her forward ammunition magazine. The ship exploded and sank with more than 1,000 men trapped inside. Next, torpedoes pierced the shell of the battleship USS Oklahoma. With 400 sailors aboard, the Oklahoma lost her balance, rolled onto her side and slipped underwater. By the time -
Bataan Death March
www.eyewitnesstohistory.comAfter the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Warsaw Getto Uprising
www.ushmm.orgbetween july 22 and september 12of 1942 deported or killed 300,000 jews in the warsaw getto SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto. -
D-day (normandy invasion)
www.u-s-history.comCodenamed 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. -
Batttel of Bulge
www.nationalww2museum.orgIn December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. 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. Lieutenant Genera -
LIberation of concentration camps
www.ushmm.orgSoviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps. The Americans were responsible for liberating Buchenwald and Dachau. while British forces entered Bergen-Belsen.. Although the Germans had attempted to empty the camps of surviving prisoners and hide all evidence of their crimes.the Allied soldiers came upon thousands of dead bodies "stacked up like cordwood," -
battle of iwo jima
ww2db.comThe American invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending troops -
Battle of okinawa
nisei.hawaii.eduLast and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
www.bbc.co.ukMay 8th 1945, was the date the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Reich, formally recognising the end of the Second World War in Europe.
The Allies had begun to overrun Germany from the west during April as Russian forces advanced from the east. On 25th April 1945, Allied and Soviet forces met at the Elbe River, the German Army was all but destroyed.
Five days later, Hitler killed his dog, his new wife Eva and then committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. -
dropping the atomic bomb
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
