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German Blitzkrietg (1939-1940)
Blitzkrieg means “lightning war”. It was an innovative military technique first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise. The blitzkrieg happened because Germany wanted to build its empire and felt that other European powers were restricting them. With this Germany would be able to gain access to many industrial resources such as oil fields of the Middle East and the Ural mountains. -
Japanese invasion of china (1937):
Japan, eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and seeing her obvious weakness, invaded and occupied Manchuria. When China appealed to the League of Nations to intervene, the League published the Lytton Report which condemned Japanese aggression.The only real consequence of this was that an outraged Japanese delegation stormed out of the League of Nations, never to return. In the 1930’s the Chinese suffered continued territorial encroachment from the Japanese, using their Manch -
Rape of Nanking (1937):
The horrific events are known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, as between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people including both soldiers and civilians in the Chinese city of Nanking. Nanking, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks. -
Fall of Paris (1940):
http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/France's army seemed a powerful bulwark against possible Nazi aggression towards other European nations.The defeat of this powerful army in a mere six weeks in 1940 stands as one of the most remarkable military campaigns in history.The collapse of France, just six weeks after Hitler's initial assault, ripped up the balance of power in Europe. Dr Gary Sheffield considers the dramatic and unexpected defeat of the Allied forces in France. -
Pearl Harbor(1941)
During the Pearl Harbor Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. 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. That is where it sought access to natural resources such as oil and rubber. Propaganda made repeated use of the attack, because its effect was enormous and impossible to counter. Lessons drawn from Pearl Harbor were included in the in -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. They gathered to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question”. Heydrich announced to the meeting a programmer of organized deportation of Jews to the East. Another possible solution of the problem has now taken the place of emigration. The handling of the problem in the individual countries will meet wit -
Battle of Midway (1942):
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion- 1944)
The sea invasion began as a allied armada discorded thousands of troops at five beaches along France’s normandy coast.D-Day forced Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWl. Yet again the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them. Germany was defeated in the Battle of the bulge and germany retreats because of Allied resistance and shortage of supplies. Without the suprise invasion of Operation Overload, the turning point in WWll would not have happened. Russia most -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan.there was public criticism about the need for Iwo Jima. After Iwo Jima had failed to fulfill its purpose as a fighter escort base, the military presented several other justifications for Operation Detachment. -
Battle of Oklnawa (1945):
http://spartacus-educational.com/2WW.htmArmy overcomes the last major pockets of Japanese resistance on Okinawa Island, ending one of the bloodiest battles. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps (1945):
The liberation reprisals were a series of incidents in which German prisoners of war were killed at the Dachau concentration camp. As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp.More than 10,000 prisoners died from the effects of malnutrition or disease within a few weeks of liberation. -
VE Day (1945)
V Day was the public holiday that was celebrated. It was celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. VE Day had affected a big impact on countries that were against Germany in World War II. VE Day Effects of the war remained in Britain as rationing continued. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. This made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland.There were many huge fires set as a result of the bomb. -
VJ Day (1945)
Victory over Japan in 1945 and the end of the Second World War. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day.” Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his last great offensive on the Western Front through the Ardennes. The Battle of the Bulge, created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line, was the largest fought on the Western front.Their assault came in early morning at the weakest part of the Allied line, an 80-mile poorly protected stretch of hilly, woody forest. The result of the conflict also made desertion an issue for the American troops.The
