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Japanese Invasion of China
The Japanese invasion of China or also Second-Sino-Japanese War was primarly fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. China fought Japan with the economic help from Germany, Russia, and America. The Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. The war was a result of Japanese imperialists aimed at expanding its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material, such as food and labor. -
Rape of Nanking
The cause of the Nanking Massacre is because Emperor Hirohito wanted control of Asia and the South Pacific and the Japanese believed they were a superior race. December 13, 1937 Japanese captured Nanking. While this happened Imperial Japanese army murdered 300,000 Chinese over-all. Afterwards, Matsui were convicted for war crimes by IMT. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
The reason Hitler wanted to invade Poland is several reasons, one is to prevent an anti-German alliance and to oppose communism. 1.5 million German troops invaded German. To Hitler, Poland would bring living space for the German people for his superior race. Afterwards, Poland evacuated to Britian and was unable to return to Poland because of the German's. -
German Bltiz
The German phrase for "lightning war". Blitzkrieg was a military tatic designed to create disorganizaiton amoung enemy forces through the use of moblie forces and locally concentrated firepower. his seems to be the first time that the use of surprise and combined arms were combined together for devastating effect. The outstanding success of the plan changed the way the war was fought. -
Fall of Paris
The start of the fall of Paris began with Hitler came into power and he wanted to take over Europe to have a "superior race", he planned on taking Paris over since 1939. On May 10th, German forces took over Belguim, France and the Netherlands. French and British troops moved into Belgium and got trapped between German forces. Afterwards, France signed armistic with Germany. -
Operation Barbossa
The reason Germany took over Barbossa is because Russia was still a "centrial theme in domestic and foreign policy". Therefore, the only logical reason was to have battlle with Russia. Plans of attack on Russia have been around since August 1940. Hitler envisioned a massive attack on Moscow. By the 17th day 300,000 Russians had been captured 2,500 tanks, 1,400 guns and 250 air craft destroyed. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack against by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States Naval Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack is what led America into WW2. The attack was intented as a preventative action action in order to keep the U.S Pacific Fleet from interefeering with military actions witht he Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia. -
Wannsee Conference
The purpose of the confrence was to ensure the cooperation of administration leaders of various goverment departments to the "final solution of the Jewish people". Most of the Jews occupied msot of Europe and Poland and were mureded by Hitler and his men. Legal discrimination against the Jew's immediately began after. -
Bataan Death March
After the battle with Japan attacked America at Pearl Habor, they went after the Philippines. 75,000 million Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps where they were subjected to harsh treatment by the Japanese. Afterwards, 10% of Americans died. People didn't even know it went on until late in the war. It did not have a direct influence on the war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad started with German and Romanian armies trying to capture Caucasian Oil fields. The Battle of Stalingrad was a sucessful Soviet defense. In mid-November as Russia stalled the German's, they began running short, Zhukov launched a deffense to encricle the enemy's. After the battle, Germans surrendered to the Red Army, ending the battle. -
Operation Gomorrah
On July 24, 1943 British bombers raided Hamburg, Germany at night while American bombers bomb it by day called "blitzkrieg". British aircrafts dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Hamburg in just a few hours. More than 1,500 German civilians were killed in the first British raid. When it was over, 17,000 bomber sorties dropped more than 9,000 tons of explosives which killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. -
D-Day
160,000 troops landed on the French coast-line to fight Nazi-German soliders on the beaches of Normandy. More than 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircrafts landed on the beaches. The battle of D-Day resulted in Allied Liberation of Western Eurpoe Nazi Germany control. This invasion was the biggest invasion of military assualts in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies to mislead the German's about the intended target by distraction. -
Operation Thunderclap
"Thunderclap" was two months after D-Day, Sir Charles Portal suggested that the moment Germany approached military collapase, a series of air raids will attack east Germany. What caused this was the fact that the Russian's said at the Yalta confrence, "We want the Dresden railway junction bombed". Afterwards, the few Jew's left in the city were allowed to stay alive and free. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was an offensive through the region of France, Belguim, and the Western Front towards the end of WW2 in Europe. The German's initial attack included 200,000 men, 340 tanks, 280 mobile vehicles. Improved weather conditions provided air attacks on the German forces and the supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the end 19,000 American's died, 89,000 were causalities, in total there were 610,000 American soliders. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Hitler put Jewish people into concentration camps because they do not have blue eyes and blonde hair, he wanted to create a superior race. Anyone who was holding a Jew a hanged publically or shot. 860,000 Jew's lives were saved in the Liberation. In 1948,the US congress passed a displaced persons act, providing visas to 400,000 people. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
What caused the war between the Japanese Imperial Army during Iwo Jima was American US solider's invaded Iwo Jima during WW2. America needed a base near the Japanese coast. 1/3 of the marine losses happened at Iwo Jima, it was a large fight in the war of which 23,000 Japanese fought in caves, dugouts, tunnels, underground installations. Despite these conditions, the American marines defeated the Japanese and rose the flag as victory. After the war we wanted Japan to surrender their atomic bombs. -
Battle of Okinawa
This was the last and the biggest battle in Japan during WW2. This battle invovled 287,000 troops. Okinawa was part of a three-point plan for the Americans to win the war in the East. It was one of the major battles during WW2. 77,116 Japanese soliders either were killed or they committed suicide in order to not get killed by American soldiers. During this 42,000 civilians were killed. Three days later resistnace came to an end. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
What lead to the dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to impress the Soviet's and to respond to Pearl Harbor. During WW2, an American B-29 bomber dropped a developing atomic bomb on Hiroshima, then three days later dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. The explostions wiped out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people. The after effects, thousands of people later died of radiation from the bomb. -
VJ Day
VJ Day celebrates the end of WW2 and victory of Japan. Japan surrendered because the bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. A formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay around USS Missouri. After the surrender of Japan in the Pacific it brought 6 years of hostiles to a final and highly anticipated closely. -
V-E Day
This event lead to the surrender of the German troops. On May 8th both Great Britian and the United States celebrate the day of the Nazi defeat. German's surrendered to the Soviet Union after they lost more than 8,000 soliders and allies came in and took over area's where there were prisioners, the prisioners were set free afterwards and gave medical attention. Afterwards, people in Europe began rebuilding their homes and businesses.
