WW2

Japanese Invasion of China 1937

Feb 19, 1937

The Japan-China war started in July 1937. As Japan launched a full blown invasion on China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops because they thought they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. While all this is going on Japanense came up against little organized resistance. In November 1937 japans most important port ,Shanghai, fell.

German Blitzkrieg

May 10, 1939

In WW2 the battle of france also known as the fall of france, was a success. Germany invated France and the low countries. The battle consisted of two main operations, Fall Gelb (case yellow), and Fall Rot (case red) which was commenced on June 5. On June 22, a armisticle was assigned between France an Germany, which resulted in a division of France whereby Germany.

Germany invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1939. The move was not popular. Under the Treaty of Versailles after WW1 however, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm.

Fall of Paris

Jun 14, 1940

The first attempt of the slaveholders’ conspiracy to put down Paris by getting the Prussians to occupy it was frustrated by Bismarck’s refusal. The second attempt on March 18 which ended the army and flights which ordered the hole administration to break up an follow in its track!

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

Nazi Germany an its allies began a massive invasion called "Operation Barbarossa", some of 4.5 million troops launched a suprise attack on the Soviet Union. Hitler had his eye on Soviet Resources. Although the Soviets were unprepared for the sudden blitzkreig attacks across a border that spanned nearly 2,900 km (1,800 mi), and they suffered horrible losses.

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

On the troops reagular sunday, day off, around 8:00 am the sky filled with Japans Air planes, and with a suprise attack on its way U.S had no idea until a 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona and landed in her forward ammunition magazine. The ship exploded then when it exploded the fire got to the amunition on the ship and made the explosion even bigger. Ship Arizona sank with more then 1000 men traped inside. During the attack 18 american ships were destoyed.

Battle of Midway

Dec 7, 1941

six months after the attack of pearl harbor the United States defeated the Japan in one of the most decissve naval battles of WW2.

Wannsee Conference

Jan 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" "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

Us surrender to the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WW2. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began.

Battle of Stalingrad

Jul 17, 1942

The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in WW2 in Europe. One of the ironies of the war, is that the German Sixth Army need not have got entangled in Stanlingrad. However, some historians believe that Hitler ordered the taking of Stalingrad simply because of the name of the city and Hitler's hatred of Joseph Stalin.

Operation Gomorrah

Jul 24, 1943

The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing. This opperation lasted 8 days and & nights. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. The British conducted night raids and the USAAF daylight raids.

Allied invasion of italy

Sep 3, 1943

Allied landing on mainland Italy by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army during WW2

D-Day [ Normandy Invasion - 1944]

Jun 6, 1944

160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion,The landings conducted in two phases: an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, US and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight, and a amphibious land

Operation Thundercap

Feb 13, 1945

Operation Thunderclap happened Febuary 13-15 1945. 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. Between 22,700 and 25,000 people were killed. At the end of 1944, the German army was retreating on all fronts, but not yet defeated.

Battle of Iwo Jima

Feb 16, 1945

The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The US marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base! By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Iwo Jima, meaning Sulfur Island,

Battle of Okinawa

Apr 1, 1945

Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. Start April 1 - June 22 1945. involving the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. 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

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe Day is known as VE day and it is a public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of WW2 of the Nazi's unconditional surrender. On April 30 Hitler commited suicied during the battle of Berlin.

Dropping the Atomic bombs

Jul 7, 1945

Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. By the time the United States conducted the first successful test, an atomic bomb was exploded in the desert in New Mexico in July 1945

VJ day

Aug 14, 1945

Japan has surrender unconditionally to the allies. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day". The term also is used on September 2, 1945 when the formal surrended took place. Several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1945

On December 16 the Germans launched 3 of there armys which was, more than a quarter-million troops. They said this war was of the most deadliest wars on the west. 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.