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Rape Of Nanjing
Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, is a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing . -
Start of Atlantic War/ European Theater
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Battle of the Atlantic
One of the Largest and Longest naval battles In history.
It started in an attempt to deliver supplies to a british Isle.
The Germans tried to apprehend and destroy the convoy of supply ships with their U-boats (submarines). Thus creating a scare which triggered ally ships to respond to the attack and protect the supplies -
War of The pacific
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Pearl Harbor
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America Enters war
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Bataan Death March
Approximately 75,000 Filipino and U.S. Troops on Bataan were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps. During the march they were tortured and killed. The brutality of the March was incredible -
Battle Of Midway
A strategic naval battle that occured near a U.S. Mid-Pacific base. Japan, Known for superior naval prowess moved on Midway in an effort to "smoke out" and destroy the U.S's. Fleet of aircraft carriers. Suprised by the Americans superior communications system the Japanese fleet was ambushed by the initiative of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Naval commander -
Battle of Stalingrad
Known as one of the Bloodiest and Brutal "mainly" Land based takeovers by the Germans.
The Germans tried to take over the City of Stalingrad located in the southwestern side of the soviet Union. Germans Reduced the city to Rubble with Air raids and left it sparse of people with land troops. Only to become weakened by the rapid and incoming cold and obvious startvation -
D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
December 16th Three German Armies set out to battle in the difficult snowy forested terrain of Ardennes. Caught the Allied powers by suprise and forced american troops to attempt to push the Germans back as they bulldozed further into the Ardennes. The Battle of The Bulge got its name by the Allied soldier's formation that took the shape of a strange protusion or "bulge". The Germans Eventually ran out of fuel and rations and began to recede but at the cost of about 100,000 American casualties -
Victory Day in Europe (V-E Day)
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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
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Victory Over Japan (V-J Day) America
Celebrated on September 2nd in America
Celebrated on August 15th in the UK
