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Japanese Invasion of China
What started the invasion was known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The conflict burst into a full on battle known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the begining all countries involved with the war were aiding China. In 1928 Hitler made an alliance with Japan. -
Rape of Nanking
Occured during the Second Sino-Japanese war. It was mass rape and murder commited by the Japanese troops on the citezens of China. -
Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
Was a treaty signed by the Governing bodies in command between Germany and the Soviets that allied them in the war. -
Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland because Hitler realized that his conquest of Europe relied on Poland being neutralized. Being Germany's Ally the Soviet military also joined in on this battle. -
Blitzkrieg
This Battle was also known as the "Lightning War". Germans used armored tanks and air weapons. Their method of attack was unified and innovated. -
Fall of Paris
German forces defeated France's military. -
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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese military bombed pearl harbor in hope to buy enough time to capture the area they wanted control of. The Japanese military's plan failed because most of the ships were out on assignments. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference wasa meeting of the senior officials of the Naziparty held in Wannsee. It was held to ensure the views of the Nazi's on the Jewish people. It also explained what would be happening to the Jews. -
Bataan Death March
The forceful transfer of prisioners by the Japanese Army. -
Battle of Midway
It was a very important naval war during the Pacific Theater. Japan sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power. If they were to succeed they would have control over the entire Pacific. -
Operation Gomorrah
British Bombers raided Hamburg, Germany during the night and Americans bomb it by day in their "Blitz Week". There were astronomical amount of loss to the german people. The loss is not only in goods but in lives as well. -
D-Day
D-Day was an Allied invasion of France on the Normandy Coast. Months were spent planning the invasion. The battle was later described as a "bloody slugfest" Photo Source: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Operation Thunderclap
A cancelled operation. It was completely planned out but never implimented. There was belief that if the plan had taken place and the predicted outcome would have happened it would have ended the war right then due to the large number of casualties in one shot , however it was proven the plan would not work so the operation was cancelled but later reconsidered in 1945. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The battle lasted 35 days. After the battle there were still resistances that hid in the caves until May. There was a lot of loss in this battle. There were only 300 Japanese soldiers left alive out of the 21,000 and the Americans had 20,000 injuries and 6,500 deaths. -
Battle of Okinawa
This battle resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths for both sides of the battle. The deaths were not only military personel but civilian is well. The civilian deaths were prompted by Japanese propaganda that showed them being caputured and tortured by the Americans. -
VE Day
VE Day was a day of celebration in most of europe. This was the day that the Allied forces marked as the formal acceptance of their win. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
American military system dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima. The bomb left the town nearly non-existent and what was left was fragments of what it used to be. The Japanese still refused to surrender and so a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
The Allied forces anounced to the world that they won the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
Three German Armies, amounting to over aquarter million troops launched a desperate battle of war in Ardennes. The U.S. troops were nearly annihilated, but evenin defeat helped buy time for the general to come up with a plan. Germans having a shortage onresources caused them to loose to the Allies.
