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Japanese invasion of china
The war broke out when China began a full scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in the territory. The war was undeclared till December 9,1941.In the last part of the war, from 1944 to August 1945, some help came to China from the United States. War stuff was being flown in, and Chinese pilots and mechanics were being trained. Japanese strongholds were bombed by U.S. and Chinese planes. -
rape of nanking
Rape of Nanjing was mass killing and ravaging of Chinese people by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that triggerd World War II. The number of Chinese killed in the massacre most estimates ranging from 100,000 to more than 300,000 -
german blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg was made by Prussian military tactics in the early 19th century, which showed that victory could come from only forceful action because of Prussia’s limited economic resources. It had its origins proposed by Carl von Clausewitz in his seminal work On War. Having studied generals who predated Napoleon, Clausewitz found that commanders of different armies had dispersed their forces without focused reasoning, which resulted in those forces’ being used inefficiently. -
fall of paris
The Battle of France during World War II was the German invasion of the Low Countries and France. In six weeks, German armed forces took over Belgium and the Netherlands, drove the British Expeditionary Force from the Continent, captured Paris, and made the french government surrender. -
pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise attack with airplanes on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike made a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan. -
Wannsee conference
Wannsee Conference, meeting of Nazi people on January 20, 1942,in Berlin of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” to the so-called “Jewish question”. On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring had issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich, SS leader and Gestapo chief, to prepare a comprehensive plan for this “final solution.” -
D-day
Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 , with the landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachs in Normandy, France. By the end of August 1944 all of northern France was liberated, and the invading forces reorganized to go into Germany. -
Bomb dropping
In July 1945 the Japanese mainlands, from Tokyo on Honshu northward to the coast of Hokkaido, were bombed just as if an invasion was about to be launched. In fact, something far more sinister was in hand, as the Americans were telling Stalin at Potsdam.They dropped Nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki To end the war and the U.S. won and everyone was happy except all the people that died in the citys from the nuke they weren't very happy -
VE day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both places, as well as cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II -
Battle of the two jima
Battle of Iwo Jima, , World War II conflict between the United States and Japan. The United States invaded the island of Iwo Jima as part of its Pacific campaign against Japan. A win for the United States, the battle was one of the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Marine and was cited as proof of the Japanese military’s willingness to fight to the last man. -