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Japanese invasion of China
What happened: Japan invades China
Why it happened: the reason why it happened was because Japan needed China's resources.
Effect/impact it had: The impact had did damage to China and made Japan enemeys for life. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
What happened: Germany invaded Poland
Why it happened: Germany wanted to have more countries under their control.
The effects of the event that were left: Most of the major cities were destroyed and left in rubble because Poland was left defenseless when England and France declared war on Germany but England and France were in no condition to fight or send troops to Poland's aid. -
Germany's Blitzkrieg (1939-1940)
What happened: German Blitzkrieg didn't want to be in a long war.
Why it happened: The blitzkrieg happened becasue Germany wanted to build its empire and felt that other European powers were restricting them. The pace at which the other powers 'allowed' Germany to expand was too slow for Germany's tastes and severely hampered their industrial expansion. By attacking the European countries directly.
The effects of what happened: The impact was terrible it made most of Europe go into a fear/panick -
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
What happened: the Operation Barbarossa was a conflict between the Nazis and Russia.
Why it happened: It happened because Hitler wasnted to defeat communism happpening in USSR, and take over land in USSR and use the Soviet people for slave labour, also he knew certain fields of Ukraine and oil fields of Caucaus would be handy. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was intended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and hence protect Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, where it sought access to natural resources such as oil and oil. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Confrence was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, it held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
The reason why it happened was so the fifteen high-ranking Nazi party and German government leaders gather and plan their attacks. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah is launched
The attack during the last week of July 1943 Operation Gomorrah, created one of the largest firstorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and practically destroying the entire city. -
D-Day
D-Day
US Army troops wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the mornign of 6 June 1944. The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the 6th of June 1944 of the Allied invaion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during WWII -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap was the code for a cncelled operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine Corps. The battle known to teh USMC as Operation Detachment started on the 19th of February 1945 and lasted until the 26th of March 1945 when the last Japanes soldiers were captured or killed -
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during WWII. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs were dropped on the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The reason why the bombs were dropped was to make the Japanese surrender and also used to show the Russians that the US could do more damage than anyother country. -
VE Day
VE Day was known as Victory in Europe Day, It was the celebration of the end of the second world war. -
VJ Day
On the fifteenth of August, 1945 the news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of WWII. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium