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Theme: Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg which means "Lightning War" in German, is when a military uses tactics to move quickly and lose fewer soldiers and, is how Germany seized Poland, France, Norway, Belgium and, Holland. History -
Theme: Strategic Bombing
Strategic Bombing was a tactic used to diminish a country's ability to wage war. The most memorable instance of strategic bombing was the bombings of Japan, to make them surrender to the U.S., at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Britannica -
Rape of Nanjing
From 1937 into early 1938 hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and tens of thousands of women and girls were sexually assaulted. These attacks were taken out by Japanese soldiers in the Chinese city of Nanjing (or Nanking) after they raided the city because it was then the capital of China. History -
Munich Conference
The agreement between French, British, and German leaders. The British and French leaders hoped that the agreement would keep the nations from having another war. History -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
The Soviet and Nazi Leaders sent their foreign ministers to sign the agreement and keep Russia from attacking Nazi Germany. The alliance ceased to exist because German troops started occupying Poland. History -
Invasion of Poland
Germany invades Poland after making an agreement with Russia, the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, hoping that Russia would not intervene in their invasion. Germany lost a large amount of its land after World War One, they were wanting to regain the territories that they had lost. Germany staged a fake attack of their soldiers, dressed as Polish soldiers, "invading", being an invitation to attack Poland. History -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S. naval station at Pearl Harbor, the heart of the Pacific fleet. Around 8 a.m. an entire wave of Japanese bombers flew through the sky nearing Naval Station Pearl Harbor and crippling the U.S. fleet. Or so they thought, the Navy's superpower was no longer battleships but now aircraft carriers, all of which were away at the mainland or delivering planes to other stations. History -
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was an intense battle between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Imperial Navy around the island of Midway. The battle was supposed to be a surprise attack but code-breakers found the radio chatter and sent a false message across to confirm their suspicions. History -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was an Axis-powers offensive against Russia along 1,800 miles of their border. The Axis powers used a strategy where they attacked three major areas of Russia at once. Russia was attacked in Moscow, Leningrad, and Ukraine. The operation ultimately failed due to the unpreparedness of the German forces, they did not have enough supplies to take such a long journey. History -
Battle of El Alamein
The battle of El Alamein was an important confrontation in North Africa between British troops and German troops. The Germans were trying to expand their empire and they had already driven British troops away. The Germans were now using captured equipment to drive the Brits out of Africa. History -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle at Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of World War Two killing a total of 1.2 million civilians and soldiers alike. The Germans wanted to attack Stalingrad because it was a major industrial city and also it bore Stalin's name, the Russians wanted to protect the city because of these same reasons. History -
Dunkirk
Dunkirk's evacuation was a preluding event to the Normandy Invasion, by giving the people the will to think that they can do anything because they helped the militants evacuate from those beaches. Hitler thought that by making the British and French pull away from France that they would give up. The Allies felt they had more reason to plan the invasion of Normandy. History -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion) (Operation Overlord)
D-Day began with thousands of Allied paratroopers landing just inland of the beaches to destroy supply lines. The Allies attacked five different parts of Normandy's beaches, and the U.S. and British attacked two beaches while the Canadian military attacked only one. After the main portion of the attack, some 156,00 troops had successfully made it through the beach defenses. History
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