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Japanese Invasion of China (1937)
In 1937, The Japanese invaded the Chinese desire to be an imperial power. There was both an economic and a militaristic element to this desire. Japan needed more resources, they wanted to have industrial and military power but had lacked resources and space on its home islands, so they invaded china for their vast natural resources. -
Rape of Nanking (1937)
Japan's Army marched into China's capital Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers that lived in the city. The six weeks of carnage would be 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. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm -
German Blitzkreig (1939)
Blitzkreig is a German method of warfare to make things easy and have a swift victory, When germans invaded poland; it only look them about two weeks to defeat the polish army. They won -
Germany Invasion of Poland (1939)
The German Invasion of Poland was one of Hitler's biggest moves and is what started WWII. After he arose into power in Germany, he made new policies & laws, one of them being the foreign policy law for Jews. Hitler also believed that Jews were inferior and by exterminating them all, him and the aryan race would be a superior being. It started with invading Poland in 1939, which lasted about 2 weeks before Poland surrendered.
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Fall of Paris
In Paris in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on because America would enter the war and come to its aid. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris -
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Operation Barbarossa is a german codename for the invasion of russia. Unfortunately the operation failed. -
Attack on Pearl Harbour (1941)
In 1941, The japanese bombed pearl harbour. It was their way to get back their territory they had lost before by america. -
Wannsee Conference (1942)
meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution”to the so-called “Jewish question” . On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring had issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich, SS leader and Gestapo chief, to prepare a comprehensive plan for this “final solution.” http://www.britannica.com/event/Wannsee-Conference -
Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II.Nearly 2 million civilians and military officers dead -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)
the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188 -
Operation Gomorrah (1943)
peration Gomorrah called for a coordinated, sustained bombing campaign against the German port city of Hamburg. The campaign was the first operation to feature coordinated bombing between the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force, with the British bombing by night and the Americans conducting precision strikes by day http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/aerialcampaigns/p/gomorrah.htm -
D-Day "Invasion of Normandy" (1944)
more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade https://www.army.mil/d-day/ -
Battle of the Bulge (1944)
In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge -
Operation Thunderclap (1945)
the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima -
Battle of Okinawa (1945)
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign,involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
VE Day (1945)
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs (1945)
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, might have also started the Cold War http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
VJ Day (1945)
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” and thats where VJ Day comes from http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day