-
German Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
"Blitzkrieg," a German word meaning “Lightning War,” was Germany’s strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. German forces employed some tactics associated with blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the invasion of Poland in 1939, including combined air-ground attacks and the use of Panzer tank divisions to quickly crush the poorly equipped Polish troops -
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Bombing of the US
Japan believes that it can severely cripple the U.S fleet and buy them time in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
Put the U.S. into a war -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The mass murder of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators required the coordination and cooperation of governmental agencies throughout Axis-controlled Europe. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion - 1944)
D-Day was born in the immediate aftermath of America's entry into the war, and agreement on a 'Germany first' strategy. brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines were killed. Another 20,000 were wounded. Marines captured 216 Japanese soldiers; the rest were killed in action
U.S. Marines invaded Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, after months of naval and air bombardment.
Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
captured American soldiers and Belgian prisoners were murdered by Waffen SS units.
Hitler hoped that the German counter-attack would surround the British and American armies and stall the Allied offensive against Germany.
The catastrophic losses on the German side prevented Germany from resisting the advance of Allied forces following the Normandy Invasion -
VE Day (1945)
Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the Allies, including the United States.
o mark the end of World War II in Europe.
V-E Day marked the end of most of the fighting in Europe, where tens of millions of service members and civilians were killed since the start of hostilities. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought the United States officially into World War II.
US Dropped big boom booms on Japan
It effect japn big time cause boom boom not good for coutry -
Liberation of concentration camps (1945)
Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz—the largest killing center and concentration camp complex
American forces liberated concentration camps including Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen.
British forces liberated concentration camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. -
VJ Day (1945)
Japan had surrendered unconditionally, war-weary citizens around the world erupted in celebration.
The War in the Pacific raged on with increased savagery. On August 6th, 1945, facing the prospect of an invasion of the Japanese home islands,
Japan had surrendered, brought a feeling of relief, to Allied servicemen.