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Japanese invasion of China
Seeking to curb Japanese aggression and force a withdrawal of Japanese forces from Manchuria and China, the United States imposed economic sanctions on Japan. Faced with severe shortages of oil. -
Rape of Nanking
was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the people of Nanjing and then capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants numbering an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000,widespread rape and looting. -
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German Invasion Of Poland
German forces crossed into Polish territory to officially begin World War 2. Adolf Hitler led Germany,Josef Stalin led the Soviet Union. -
Fall Of Paris
was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front. -
Battle of Britain
From July 10 to October 31, 1940, the Nazis waged, and ultimately lost, an air war over England, known as the Battle of Britain. -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa -- some 4.5 million troops launched a surprise attack deployed from German-controlled Poland, Finland, and Romania. Hitler had long had his eye on Soviet resources. -
Pearl Harbor
some 450 aircraft, set sail from Japan to Hawii. Japanese diplomats were sent to Washington with a formal declaration of war. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. -
Wannsee Conference
was a meeting of the senior officals of Nazi Germany in Berlin. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto arose against the police. The Ghettp refused to surrender to the police commander, who then ordered the burning of the Ghetto, block by block, ending on May 16, 13,000 Jews were killed by being burned alive or suffication. Largest revolt by the Jews. -
Operation Gomorrah
British bombers raid Hamburg Germany, at night while the ud bombs it during the day in "Blitz week". -
D- Day
by 630 am Allied forces landed in Northern France, five beach sectors were codnamed for the further landing of further infantry. This was the invasion of Normandy. -
Battle Of the Bulge
In mid-December the Germans launched an unsuccessful counterattack in Belgium and northern France -
Liberation of the Consentration Camps
The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"), and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp. There was abundant evidence of mass murder in Auschwitz. The retreating Germans had destroyed most of the warehouses in the camp. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The us landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese imperial army -
Potsdam Declaration
is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Battle Of Okinawa
Included the largest amphibious assult in the Pacific war. 82 day battle -
VE Day
to celebrate the formal acceptance of the Allies in to WW2 of Nazis Germanys surrender -
Operation Thunderclap
Was planned in 1944 but was never implamented, it was put on a shelf. he plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties.Was supposed to break German morals and spirit. the plan was later ntoed to probably not work . -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The us dropped to atomic bombs in Japapn one in Hiroshima and the other in Nagasaki during the final stage of WW2. Killing at least 129,000 people. The Us got consent from the Untied Kingdom. -
VJ Day
Was the day that the news of the surrender was told to the world.
