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Japanese invasion of China
http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/Conflict on the marco polo bridge in Peking China leads to the Japanese-Chinese War. On July 9, Japanese forced invade Peking. Capturing Peking allows the Imperial Army to advance further along the coast of China. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm -
Rape of Nanking
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/pages/ww2/In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. -
Germany's invasion of Poland
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/pages/ww2/"Operation Weiss" is issued, Grman troops Invade Poland officially marking the beginning of the war. Hitler claiming the invasion was an act of defence, but Britain was not convinced. Hitler creating "Lebensraum" for the German people impacted the World. -
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German Blitzkreig
http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/The fundamental purpose of the German Blitzkrieg war was beacuse Germany did not have any desire to be in a long war. Rapidly after the Blitzkrieg War Germany turned into an extreme risk to everybody that attempted to assault them. A couple of years after the Blitzkrieg war Italy and Japan got to be Allies with Germany, so they were set to be a definitive trio. Being able to send troops from the air and the ground permits the ene to not know where the assault is originating from. -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler dispatched his armed forces eastbound in a huge attack of the Soviet Union: three extraordinary armed force bunches with more than three million German fighters, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks crushed over the wilderness into Soviet region. The intrusion secured a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a separation of two thousand miles. -
Operation Barbarossa
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htmGermany finally delcares war on USSR, breaking the nonaggression pact they had perviosly declared. Hitler launched the attack because eventually the Soviets would of probably attacked him. Seeming suicidal for the Germans, the forces were able to penetrate deeply into Minsk and nearly two thirds the distance to Moscow. Unfortunately, extremely cold weather led the advance in motherland to slow down, slowly beginning the turning point in the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese aircraft launch a surprise atack on an American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The imperial forces declare war to the US and Britain. This attack alerts the US and forces them to participate in the war, what the Us feared the most due to tense economic times. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm -
Wannsee Conference
Do you "wann(a) see" what happened in here? Mediocre puns aside, the Wannsee Conference was help in Berlin, where the "Final Solution" was coordinated and devised by Heydrich, and forced by Martin Luther. This allowed the creation of the einsatzgruppen and death camps which killed millions of jews. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm -
Japanese internment
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad lasted five months, and was thge major turning point of the war, slowly crippling the Nazi forces. Stalingrad has been regarded as the single most deadliest battle in warfare. Hitler was ambitious on how he would take over russia, instead of concentrating on his troops in moscow, he wanted to take over ussr from north to south, leading to a huge mistake. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm -
Allied invasion of Italy
http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/The Allied intrusion of Italy was the Allied land and/or water capable arriving on territory Italy that occurred on 3 September 1943 amid the early phases of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The operation was attempted by General Sir Harold Alexander's fifteenth Army Group and took after the effective intrusion of Sicily. The principle intrusion power arrived around Salerno on 9 September on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations occurred in Calabria and T -
D-Day
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/pages/ww2/Amid World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which kept going from June 1944 to August 1944, brought about the Allied freedom of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the fight started on June 6, 1944, otherwise called D-Day, when somewhere in the range of 156,000 American, British and Canadian powers arrived on five shorelines along a 50-mile stretch of the vigorously braced bank of France's Normandy area. The attack was one of the biggest land and/ -
Battle of Iwo Jima
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/pages/ww2/The American land and/or water capable attack of Iwo Jima amid World War II originated from the requirement for a base close to the Japanese coast. Taking after elaborate preliminary air and maritime assault, three U.S. marine divisions arrived on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was protected by approximately 23,000 Japanese armed force and naval force troops, who battled from an intricate system of hollows, holes, passages and underground establishments. -
Battle of Okinawa
Last and greatest of the Pacific island clashes of World War II, the Okinawa battle (April 1—June 22, 1945) included the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 officers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. In question were air bases fundamental to the anticipated intrusion of Japan. Before the end of the 82-day battle, Japan had lost more than 77,000 troopers and the Allies had endured more than 65,000 losses—including 14,000 dead. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, 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. -
Liberation of concentration camps
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/pages/ww2/Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On 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. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htmPresident Harry S. Truman, cautioned by some of his guides that any endeavor to attack Japan would bring about terrible American losses, requested that the new weapon be accustomed to convey the war to a fast end. On August 6, 1945, the American aircraft Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htmOn August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was declared to the world. This started unconstrained festivals over the last completion of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender function was held in Tokyo Bay on board the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman announced September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Battle of the Bulge
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htmIn December 1944, Adolph Hitler endeavored to part the Allied armed forces in northwest Europe by method for a shock raid push through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Found napping, American units battled edgy fights to stem the German development at St.- Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove more profound into the Ardennes trying to secure essential bridgeheads, the Allied line tackled the presence of an expansive lump, offering ascend to the fight's name.
