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japanese invasion
Conflict in Asia began well prior to the official start of World War II. As Japan was seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, they invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large pieces of China, and accusations of war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace. -
German Blitzkrieg
The German Blitzkrieg also known as "lightning war" military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority in materiel or firepower. Blitzkrieg is most known to be associated with Nazi Germany during World War II even though many combatants used its techniques in that war. The reason the Germans are known mostly for this strategy is because they are the most successful with it. -
Fall of Paris
Paris fell to the Nazi Germany army on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France. Eight days later, France signed an armistice with the Germans, and a puppet French state was set up with its capital at Vichy. Elsewhere, however, General Charles de Gaulle and the Free French kept fighting. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbour is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, when a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941 hit. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, which included eight battleships, and over 300 air planes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, and 1,000 people were wounded. -
Wannsee Confrence
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. This meeting was about Germany's final solution. There final solution was a code name for the systematic, deliberate, and physical annihilation of all European Jews. This obviously affected the Jews badly since the best army at the time Germany was after them. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a big battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that lasted around six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle June 3-6, 1942 and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island broke Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. -
Allied Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from September 3 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. They followed the successful Allied Invasion of Sicily. this invasion was not good for Italy obviously it was not good for the country especially at the time of the war. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy, which is also known as D-Day, lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge, also called Battle of the Ardennes, was fought December 16, 1944 January 16, 1945, the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. This hurt the Germans army and dropped a lot of there numbers from this loss. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp a Nazi concentration camp where more than a million people were murdered, was liberated by the Red Army during the Vistula Oder Offensive. Although most of the prisoners had been forced to death, about 7,000 had been left behind. This had effected so many families and the people that were in the concentration camps very negatively and life would never be normal again. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields. Each airfield could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa April 1, 1945-June 22, 1945 was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the worst. On April 1, 1945 Easter Sunday the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan. The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg. This was a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, which included Okinawa. -
VE Day
May 8th 1945 was the date the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler’s Reich, formally recognizing the end of the Second World War in Europe. This became known as V.E (Victory in Europe) Day. This day effected everyone in the world and was a very good day for all the world. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 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. This obviously had a bad effect on Japan. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as Victory over Japan Day or 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. This day effected the whole world as it officially put a end to WWII. -
Links
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/wannsee-conference-and-the-final-solution https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/VE-Day/ https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated -
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Auschwitz_concentration_camp https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/invasion-manchuria https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/blitzkrieg-lightning-war https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy -
