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Japanese invasion of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It followed the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95. They went to war because japan new that china didnt have a good infostructure. -
Germany’s invasion of Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland.Poland was divided among Germany and Soviet Union. Slovakia gained back those territories taken by Poland in autumn 1938. Lithuania received the city of Vilnius and its environs on 28 October 1939 from the Soviet Union. -
German Blitzkrieg
The Blitz was the period of strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War. Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were big aerial raids on 16 British cities. Total losses could have been as high as 600 bombers, just 1.5% of the sorties flown. A significant number of aircraft were wrecked during landings, or downed by bad weather. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II -
D-Day
D-Day' >D-Day </a>The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima 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.Given the number of casualties the necessity and long-term significance of the island's capture to the outcome of war -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself. The 82-day-long battle lasted from 1 April until 22 June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland. -
V-E Day
[ve day](http://<a href='http://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=fwxL0pk2A6s&name=VE+Day+Buckingham+Palace+(1945)&uploadUsername=AIRBOYD&hitCount=11036)' >VE- Day </a>Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Dropping of the atomic bombsPresident Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
VJ Day News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Concentration Camps Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.July 23 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp.
