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Japanese Invasion of China
Skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops on the frontier led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge incident. This fighting sparked a fuoll-blown conflict, the Second-Japanese war. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From east Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through polish defenses. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany's Blizkrieg tactias overwhelmed Poland, then after a pause crushed Denmark, Norway, and the low countries. -
Fall of Paris
Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being impased for 8 p.m, that evening as German troops enter and occupy Paris. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the soviet union. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. hundreds of japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. In just two hours the Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died in the attack and another 1,000 were wounded. Three days later Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States. -
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 to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the Final Solution of the Jewish Question. -
Bataan death march
After the April 9, 1942 U.S surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of the Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45) the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65- mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
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. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to know before hand and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, giving permanent damage to the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move int -
battle of iwo jima
February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle which the U.S Marines landed on and eventually captured the Island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
FDR/ death- Truman becomes president
Harry S.Truman decided that a “tougher” policy toward the Soviets was in order and he began to press the Russians on a number of issues. By 1947 relations between the two former allies had nearly reached the Breaking point and the war was in full swing. April 12,1945 was when Roosevelt died and Truman became president. -
VE Day
VE Day: The VE Day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of it's armed forces. -
Battle of Bulge
December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945, The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
