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Japanese invasion of china
The japanese turned a small incident to a full scale invasion. The chinese were unable to effectively defend against the japanese. What caused it was a small fight on the border. what resulted was a full scale war. The japanese government did not officially declare war. -
German Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, the polish army lasted only a couple weeks. Germany attacked with more than 2,000 tanks, and 1,000 planes. Germany claimed that attacking Poland was a defensive action. The effects of Germany invading Poland was something major called the Holocaust. -
German Blitzkrieg
The Blitzkrieg tactic was first used in the invasion of Poland, and was then used in the rest of the invasions that Germany did in WW2. It is most famous for invasion of Belgium. Germany attacked because Germany felt threatened. The result of the invasion was that Belgium surrendered -
Fall of Paris
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Germany invaded the Soviet Union because they felt that the Soviet Union were inferior and attacked. Germany used their Blitzkrieg strategy to defeat the Soviet Union. Germany caused them to surrender, because they were cut off from supplies. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japan surprised the US naval base at pearl harbor with an attack. It was a complete and utter disaster. The attack on Pearl Harbor was intended to nuetralize the fleet of US ships. 2,400 americans died, and wounded 1,200, over 340 of the 400 planes on Oahu were destroyed. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, Nazi officials discused a way to get rid of their jew problems. This happened because Hitler ordered his right hand man to figure out a way to rid them of their "Jew Probem" the effects are that months later "gas vans" were killing 1,000 people a day. Mass killing was the answer the officials had come up with. -
Bataan Death March
The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. During this infamous trek, known as the “Bataan Death March,” the prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days -
Battle of Midway
Admiral Nagumo launched his first strike with 108 aircraft, and did significant damage to U.S. installations at Midway. The Americans struck back time and again at Japanese ships, but accomplished little real damage, losing 65 of their own aircraft in their initial attempts. But Nagumo underestimated the tenacity of both Admiral Chester Nimitz and Admiral aymond Spruance, -
Operation Gomorrah
on july 24, 1943, british bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night the britisg attack, but by day the Americans attack with their bombers.This happend because the British and the Americans saw a weakness, most of the building were older wooden ones. The effects are, of the 791 British bombers that had first flown 17 were destroyed. More than 1,500 civilians werenkilled in the first bombing raid. -
D-Day
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed 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. The invasion was one of the largest military assualts in history. -
Liberation of Concentration camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious 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 forces. -
Battle of Okinawa
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Last 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
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Operation Thunderclap
‘Operation Thunderclap’ 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. Also to demonstrate to the German population, in even more devastating fashion, that the air defences of Germany were now of little substance and that the Nazi regime had failed them. At Yalta Churchill had promised to do more like supporting Russians moving west -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On this day in 1945, 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. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
VJ Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought 6 years of hostility was at an end,. -
Battle of the Bulge
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front.
