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Japanese Invasion of China
There was fighting between Japanese and Chinese in 1937. This fighting started the Second Sino-Japanese War. China received aid from countries such as Britain, France and the US China also received aid from Nazi's but not for long. In 1938 Hitler decided to form an alliance with Japan breaking all ties. The Japanese quickly gained control of industrial centres such as Nanking and Shanghai. Many were killed in bomb raids. 80,000 were raped Rape of Nanking. -
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Invasion of Poland
From September 1st, 1939 to October 6th, 1939, German leader Adolf Hitler understood that his overall conquest of Europe relied on neutralizing Poland in the East. He needed to prepare for battle against Britain and France in the West. Polish defenders surrendered on October 6th. The German-Soviet offensive ended with control of the west. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg tactics were a war statregy used by Germany in WWII. It required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. These forces would breach enemy defenses, permitting armored tanks to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and disorganization among the enemy defenses. Germany wanted to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short bursts and disorginization. -
Fall of Paris
German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians fled. In short order, The German Gestapo started arresting, interrogating, and spying, A gigantic swastika hung beneath the Arc de Triomphe, a historical landmark. French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet. The United States did froze all asseets to the axis-powers. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22nd, 1941, In accordance with Hitler's grand vision, the Soviet Union was to be subdued if a new "German Empire" was to be realized. The captured lands would serve as the necessary manpower for victory and a long-standing existence after the war. The effects/impact of the event:Red Army resistance prevented the Germans from capturing the key cities of Leningrad and Moscow. On December 6, 1941, Soviet troops launched a significant counter-offensive that drove German forces away. -
Pearl Harbor
A large Japanese fleet set sail from Japan towards Hawaii. Japanese diplomats were sent to Washington with a formal declaration of war. A large Japanese aerial formation was disregarded by Army personnel as an incoming flight of friendly B-17s from the 'States. The Japanese bombed and destroyed American battleships in 2 waves killing civilians and military. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the Infamy Speech on December 8 the Americans. America entered into World War II That same day. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered in the Berlin to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Heydrich indicated that approximately 11,000,000 Jews in Europe would fall under the provisions of the "Final Solution." In this figure, he included not only Jews residing in Axis-controlled Europe, but also the Jewish populations of the United Kingdom, and the neutral nations (Switzer -
Battle of Midway
6 months after the attack on pearl harbor the battle of midway commences. The Japanese Navy planned to sink the remaining ships that escaped pearl harbor but its plans were intercepted. American carrier-based planes diverted Japanese defenses just in time for the dive-bombers to arrive;The Japanese carriers were caught while refueling and rearming their planes. The Americans sank four fleet carriers. -
Operation Gomorrah
July 24, 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night. British aircraft drop 2,300 tons of bombs on Hamburg,Germany in just a few hours. Britain had suffered the deaths of 167 civilians as a result of German bombing raids in July. and now the causualties of the Germans were more than 1,500 German civilians. -
Invasion of Italy
British 8th Army begins the allied invasion of Italy. Upon arrival the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no announcement was made until September 8. On July 10, 1943, the Allies began a series ofoperations for the invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily encountering little resistance from demoralized Sicilian troops. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord,On June 6,1944, 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along France’s Normandy beaches. The battle was known as D-Day and it resulted in the liberation of Western Europe from German control. Less than a week after the initial attack, on June 11, the beaches were fully secured. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the codename for a cancelled operation planned in August 1944 but never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin and to bomb the eastern-most cities. It was believed that the attack would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them important German personnel. It was later decided that the plan was unlikely to succeed.
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Battle of The Bulge
On December 16,1944 hundreds of German tanks and several hundred thousand German troops broke through the thinly held American lines in the Ardennes Forest. Upon further advancements of the german army the US forces managed to delay the enemy. The Germans began to withdraw from the Bulge on January 8, 1945. The Germans suffered more than 100,000 casualties; the Americans approximately 81,000. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Three U.S. marine divisions landed on Iwo Jima in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by about 23,000 Japanese who fought from elaborate networks of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty, the marines wiped out the japanese forces in just a month. -
Battle of Berlin
The red army tortured the people still residing in Germany. 200,000 soildiers and 2,000,000 civilians. Hitfler retreated in and underground bunker for fear of the inevitable.Stalin was convinced by an Allied plan to take Berlin. In a meeting in Moscow, the plan was laid down to march on Berlin in April of 1945. On May 1st, Germans surrendered -
Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade Okinawa Japan and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. It was an 82 day campaign. Japan had lots of soldiers and the alliances had also suffered .Japanese forces changed their typical tactics of resisting at the water’s edge to retreating to gain time. -
VE Day
German troops throughout Europe finally surrendered to the Soviets. Surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany. More than 13,000 British POWs were released and sent back to Great Britain. German-Soviet fighting would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Germans finally surrendered. Becasue of this, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow. -
Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion 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 surrender on August 15th -
Potsdam Decleration
just a day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan agrees to the terms of unconditional surrender, as President Harry S. Truman orders a halt to atomic bombing. the determination of reparations, and the further prosecution of the war against Japan was to be decided. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, President Harry S. Truman announced news of Japan’s surrender at the White House.
