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Japanese invasion of China
This began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria.The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.The Chinese-Japanese dispute in July 1931was followed by the Mukden Incident, on September 18, 1931. -
Rape of Nanking
Rape of Nanjing, was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops .The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing.During this period the Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants. -
Blitzkrieg
A German term for the ightning war was blitzkrieg.Blitzkrieg means military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces.This was successful execution results in short military campaigns.German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 -
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941 Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea.The german combat effectiveness had reached its apogee. -
Pearl Habor
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.The attack lasted just two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, almost 200 airplanes. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in Berlin. They discussed the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment. by Japanese guards. A lot of pepole died on the march/ -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in a naval battles of World War II. Thanks to major advances in code breaking the United States was able to counter Japan’s planned ambush .This was an important turning point in the Pacific campaign. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was on July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943. It was a successful Soviet defense. Took place in the of the city of Stalingrad. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934.This move was not popular with many Germans.But they resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
In 1942, Hitler decided to liquidate the ghettos. Within 18 months hitler had more than two million Jews who’d survived the ghettos deported to death camps.The Germans ordered the Jewish “police” in the Warsaw ghetto to round up people for deportation. Approximately 300,000 men, women, and children were packed in cattle cars and transported to the Treblinka death camp where they were murdered. -
Operation Gomorrah
Allied bombed Hamburg during World War II. It included lots of strategic bombing missions . This was a large polt against industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens,etc..One of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II -
D-day
On June 6, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch beach. They went to fight the nazis on the beaches of Normday.Over 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion. In day’s the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign. It was launched through the Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front. Eric von Manstein was the one who planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbor of Antwerp. -
Thunderclap
February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap. It was a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany.To pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory. -
Operation Meetinghouse
The single deadliest air raid of World War II. 330 American B-29s rain incendiary bombs on Tokyo. It was touching off a firestorm that kills upwards of 100,000 people, burns a quarter of the city. -
Battle of Okinawa
The biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II.Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S.At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops.Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces. -
V-E DAY
On may 8 the Allies won a victory in Europe in 1945.Celebrated in Commonwealth realms. Thismarked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War . Albert Einstein was the one to invent the bomb. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton atmoic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
