-
Japan Invades China
The invasion began in september when the Kwantung army of the empire of japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mudken Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. The invasion marked Japan as an enemy to the Allies and a contender in the lingering war ahead. Putting japan in a dog fight with the 2 most powerful nations at the time. -
Munich Conference
Settlement permitting Germanys annexaton of parts of Czechoslovakias borders, and mostly inhabited by german speakers, for which a new territorial name Sudentenland was coined. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany by russia. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg describes a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks. It was a battle of annihilation -
Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II broke out in Europe, enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin thought this was a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build the soviet army. -
germany invades poland
Germanys invasion of poland marked the beggining of ww2. The campaign ended on October 6 when germany and the soviet union divided annexing all of poland. German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east. -
Battle of Britian
Air war campaign by the German Luftwaffe on the UK during the summer and fall of 1940. First major war campaign fought entierly by air. Was the largest and most sustained ariel bombing campaign. Holding off the german forces was the first major loss and a turning point in the war for the germans. The failed attack stopped the germans opperation sea lion attack and weakened the germans ariel strategy making hitler rethink the campaign. Britians first major ariel victory over the Germans. -
Lend-Lease Act
The lend lease act was a program that enacted the US supplied materials to Great Britian, Free France, Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations between 1941 and august 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941 by president Franklin Roosevelt. A total over 50 billion worth of supplies were shipped, 31 million of that to Great Britian. The program insured the us get thier money back on it all. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was a code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. In total during the operation about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR. It was the largest invasion in the history of warfare. The operation was driven by Hitlers desire to control soviet land. It was the beggining phase in deciding the victors of the war. The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused alot of deaths, 95 percent of all German Army casualties. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The purpose of the meeting was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. -
Bataan Death March
The bataan death march was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination -
Battle of Midway
The battle of midway was one of the most important naval battles of ww2. Only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy, under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the japanese fleets. Also asserted the US naval strength againt the japanese. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The batlle of Stalingrad was a major battle in which nazi germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city Stalingrad in the south-western soviet union. Close quarter battle among bloodiest of the war, the germans and soviets suffered major casualties of both soliders and civilians. The battle lasted 5 months 1 week and 3 days. Soviet forces locked in with the germans and out lasted them in a battle of attrition after germans exhausted their supplies and couldnt get more. -
The Holocaust
The holocaust were prison camps jew and impure germans were sent to suffer during world war 2. Started by hitlers nazis the holocaust killed millions of inncoent people and not all of germany even knew about it. The concentration camps themselves were dirty and poorly kept clean the people inside suffered dramatically. Barely food at all, no showers, clothes that didnt fit, and stripped of thier identity it was a living hell for the people inside. Most of the concentration camps were in poland. -
D-Day
Dday referres to the day of the Normandy landings. Or the initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after that operation. D-day killed tons of americans as they stormed the german occupied beaches and were shot down by the hundreds. -
battle of buldge
Major german offensive attack on the allies. Plan was to push a suprise attack on a weakly supported sides of the allies forces and split the french and american forces. The americans anticipated an attack at some point. The allie powers buldged together in the middle of the battle and hense the name battle of the buldge. The US faced the brunt force of the German military and lost more soliders in this batle than all of the other battles they fought in. The US eventually pushed the Germans out -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Major battle which the US fordces fought andf captured the island of Iwo Jima from the japanese forces. The bloodiest battle of the pacific, US forces backed the Japs into the caves with no where to retreat or get reinforcemnets. The US bombarded the Japs until they surrendered, the US had no way possible to lose the battle. The island served as a good base for the us to further attack japanese bases surrounding the island. Asserted the US power and supperiority over the japanses army. -
Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa, and was the largest amphibious assault in the pacific war of ww2. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until june. After a long series of island hopping, the Allies were close to japan and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of maineland Japan. -
V-E day
Public holliday celbrated on may 8 that marked the allies acceptance of Nazi Germanys unconditional surrender of thier armed forces. It marked the end of ww2 officially. On april 30 Hitler commited suicide during the battle of Berlin so Germanys surrender was authorised by succesor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz.The surrender was signed in france on may 7 and in Berlin on may 8. -
Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The bombing started when an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day as reffered to was the day japan officially surrendered in ww2. The date was set for august 14 but because of time zones august 15 for the US but was officially signed September 2 ending ww2. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. In Japan, August 15 usually is known as the “memorial day for the end of the war”. -
Warsaw Pact
The warsaw pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe that started during the Cold War. The pact was a soviet military reaction to western germany. The pact was meant to keep peace in europe, until the USSR fell at the end of the cold war. After that it turned into the subsequent Collective Security Treaty Organization.
