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rape of nanking
the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing the capital of the Republic of China. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces invaded poland on this date. Polish forces are not modernized. They have 1 million soldiers but made some strategical errors and got crushed by the new german war strategy blitzkreig. -
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Blitzkreig
Germany used a new war strategy in WWII. The new strategy was called blitzkreig meaning "lightning war". The whole idea behind this is that they would roll up with tanks and soldiers and just rapidly destroy the enemy -
battle of britain
Germanys air strikes on britain. Plan was to defeat the RAF by bombing major ports and other important areas. When this didnt work they began bombing political targets and were basically terror bombing. -
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battle of midway
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Operation Barbarossa
on June 22 1941 adolf hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
was an attack on the U.S. pacific fleet at the naval base pearl harbor in hawaii the attack was carried out by the japanese to prevent the american fleet from interfering with there plans. the attack started at 7:48 hawaiin time 735 japanese planes attacked the fleet and damaged or destroyed all 8 of the boats. -
battle of midway
one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in the United States was able to counter Japan’s ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
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battle of stalingrad
a major battle of ww2 where the nazis fought the soviets over control of the city of stalingrad. it is considered the largest and bloodiest battle in history. -
warsaw ghetto uprising
residents of the Jewish ghetto in nazioccupied warsaw poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps -
D-Day
the Battle of Normandy from June 1944 to August 1944 caused the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.also known as D-Day when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
operation thunderclap
oeration tunderclap was the code name for a operation planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan was a atack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, -
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battle of the bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by surprising them caught off guard american units fought desperate battles to stem the german advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. the allied line looked like a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name. -
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battle of iwo jima
three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945 Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japs who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting -
Battle of okinawa
involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese thirty second armyby end of the 82 ay campaign Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties -
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
the war against japan in the pacific however continued to rage. President Truman warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in huge american loss ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a end. On August 6, 1945, the Americans dropped a atomic bomb over the Japanese city of hiroshima it reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 ppl Three days later another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing nearly 4
