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Japaneese Invation of China
This was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before World War II. It was the largest Asain war in the twentieth century. The war was the result of decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politcally and miliarily to secure the vast raw material serves and other resources. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland
On this day, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain his lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. This even and led to the beginning of WWII. -
German Bllitzkrieg
A German term for "lightening war," blitzkrieg is a new military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces throught the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. The blitzkrieg was used by German commander Erwin Rommel during the North African campaign of WWII. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invation of the Soviet Union during the World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor is also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor. This was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the Hawiian territroy of the United States. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in Berlin suburb of Wannsee. -
Operation Gomorrah
On this day, British bomber raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah. While this was going on, Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz Week." -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on this day of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region on Wallonia in Belguim, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of WWII. -
Operation Thunderclap
Operation Thunderclap had been under discussion within the Allied Command for some time, the proposal was to bomb the earstern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure bhind what was becoming the Eastern front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battlle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army durnig World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, code named "Operation Iceberg," was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest ampibious assualt in the Pacific. -
VE Day
Victory in Eurpope Day, generally known as VE day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated 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 Bomb
At approximately 8.15am, a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killings around 80,000 peoples. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasai, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. -
VJ Day
News of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of WWII. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
