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Japanese invasion of China
The reason Japan invaded was because, Japan said China had sent troops to Marco Polo Bridge. Because of this japan came up against a little organized resistance. The resistance soon fell apart. Due to the falling apart this led to the Rape Of Nanking. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
The German Soviet Pact gave Germany the permission to attack poland. This attack caused Warsaw to surrender to Germany.The Polish army were defeated weeks into the invasion. This also had Britain and France to declare war on germany. -
Germany Blitzkreig
Before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland. Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces by using concentrated fire power. -
Operation Boberossa
Operation Barbarossa is Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia . Barbarossa the largest military attack of World War Two. Russia was defended by four army units. This attack happened because of Hitlers desire for the destruction of russia.Though Russia had a large army, the purges had wiped out a large part of the army’s senior commanders. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise. Before the attack the U.S. and Japan were already arguing. The Japanese destroyed 20 American naval vessels. Over 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Wannssee Confrence
A high level meeting of the Nazi officials in britain is the wannssee conference. This took place to discuss the "Final Solution" of the Jewish Question. As a result of this meeting the decisions was to terminate the jews. There was a camp made to kill the jews. Hitler gave permission to the deportation of German Jews to the east . Transports then began in mid-October. -
Operation Gomorrah
This was an aerial bombing campaign.Operation Gomorrah called for a coordinated, sustained bombing campaign against the German port city. This occurred in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. The raids severely shook the Nazi leadership, leading Hitler to be concerned that similar raids on other cities could force Germany out of the war. -
D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
Eric von Manstein planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbor of Antwerp. Was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front which Germany was largely unable to replace. -
Operation ThunderClap
This operation was ment to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. They did this to prove something to the German population. The destruction of Dresden was the result of this operation. -
Battle of Okinawa
At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II. By the end of the 82-day campaign. Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers. Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties. -
VJ Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. When Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
They took it from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified. American casualties exceeded the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times the number of American deaths. The Japanese defeat was assured from the start. -
VE Day
Rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
An American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry S. Truman made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped; only 28,000 remained after the bombing.
