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Japanese Invasion of China
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Rape of Nanking
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German Blitzkrieg
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Germany's invasion of Poland
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Fall of Paris
By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day, as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe.While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet. The United States did not remain complete -
Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II. -
Wannsee Conference
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Operation Gomorrah
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
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Battle of the Bulge
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Operation Thunderclap
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle Okinawa
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VE Day
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Potsdam Declaration
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. -
VJ Day
