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Japanese invasion of China
Japanese Invasion of ChinaThis was a conflict between Japan and China. Secretary of State Hull urged upon the Japanese Government a policy of self-restraint. He said that a first-class power like Japan not only could afford to exercise general self-restraint but that in the long run it was far better that this should characterize the attitude and policy of the Japanese Government.
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Rape of Nanking
rape of nankingrape of mankingIn 1931, the Japanese occupied the Chinese province of Manchuria transforming it into a Japanese puppet state. It was the first step in Japan's drive to control all of China.July 1937, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed in Peking in an incident at the Marco Polo Bridge. Using this as justification, the Japanese launched a full-blown assault on the city at the end of the month utilizing massed infantry, tanks and airstrikes. It did not take long for the city to sarender. -
German invasion on poland
German invasion on polandOn September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Then poland declared war on Germany. -
Fall of Paris
Germans Enter ParisParisians 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. The Parisinans cheered when the canadian amry came to help. -
german blitzkrieg
german blitzkriegwas the term for lighting war was blitzkrieg is military tactic desighned to create disorganization among enemy forces. development in Germany between 1918 and 1939 of a body of doctrine using mobility to prevent repetition of the attritional deadlock -
Operation Barbarossa
operationm barbaossaaOn June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea. By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee; in training, doctrine, and fighting ability, Barbarossa was the turning point in WWII. -
pearl harbor
pearl harbor pearl hardDecember 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were woundedday after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; -
Wannsee Confrence
Wannasee ConfrenceHigh-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." -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway Begins
During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. In six months of offensives prior to Midway, the Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific. -
Battle of Staligrad
Battle of Staligrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
Warsaw Ghetto uprising the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews. police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps.In response to the deportations, on July 28, 1942, several Jewish underground organizations created an armed self-defense unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization. more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto in hiding. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation GomorrahOn this day in 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own “Blitz Week.” The evening of July 24 saw British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of incendiary bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours.More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in that first British raid.British attacks on Hamburg continued until November of that year. -
D-Day
D-DaySolidiers landed at beaches in Normandy France. They continued to try and fight there way into the inner part of the country, away from the beaches.Less than a week later, on June 11, the beaches were fully secured and over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy. -
battle of the bulge
Battle of the BuldgeGermans launch the last major offensive of the war,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. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation thunderclap‘Operation Thunderclap’ had been in discussion within the Allied Command for a good period of 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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
[Battle of Iwo Jima](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima)The Battle of Iwo Jima represented to the Americans the pinnacle of forcible entry from the sea.Spruance’s Fifth Fleet enjoyed total domination of air and sea around the small, sulfuric island, and the 74,000 Marines in the landing force would muster a healthy 3-to-1 preponderance over the garrison. Seizing Iwo Jima would be tough, -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of OkinawaThe battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies.When two United States Marine and two Army divisions landed abreast on Okinawa on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, they faced an estimated 155,000 Japanese ground, -
VJ day
VJ dayOn August 14, 1945, 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.” -
VE Day
VE dayOn 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.n Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
Atomic bomb is dropped on HiroshimaOn August 6 the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima. This bomb killed 39000 to 80000 people. Another bomab was also dropped another bomb on Nagaski Japan.
