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Ashley Hackworth World War Two
World War Two events 1937-1947 -
Japanese invasion of China
Japan attacked china knowing that they were military weak.China had the iron ore and rubber that Japan needed to carry out the attack they were secretly planning -
Rape of Nanking
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. -
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact
shortly before World War II broke out in Europe Nazi Germany and Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German Soviet Nonaggression Pact, two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the 10 years. With Europe on the brink of a major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, giving him time to build an army. -
German Blitzkrieg
Germany's main strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. They quickly overran Europe and was victorious for more than two years by using the new military tactic called the Blitzkrieg -
Germany's invasion of Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced.This did not even start the war either. -
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. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the German code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, -
Pearl Habor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War -
Wannsee Conference
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. -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II , 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 preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy -
Battle of Stalingrad
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
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. -
Operation Gomorrah
Operation 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 Air Force, with the British bombing by night and the Americans striking by day -
Allied invasion of Italy
British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. -
D-Day
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 -
Liberation of Concentration camp
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. -
Battle Of The Bulge
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. -
Operation Thunderclap
the proposal was to bomb the eastern-most cities of Germany to disrupt the transport infrastructure behind what was becoming the Eastern front. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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 -
Battle of Okinawa
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
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. -
Potsdam Declaration
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
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.
