World War II events

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  • Japanese invasion of China

    Japanese invasion of China
    The Second-Sino Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japn from 1937 to 1941.
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    Japanese General Matsui Iwane demanded that the City of Nanking to be destroyed and burned to the ground; well in the end 150,000 men were butchered and 20,000 women were butchered.
  • Germany's invasion of Poland

    Germany's invasion of Poland
    Polish army was defeated within two weeks of the invasion; 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes broke and sunk.
  • Fall of Paris

    Fall of Paris
    The Fall of France was successful; German invasion of France and the Low countries defeating the French forces.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    It was the code for yhe Nazi's Germany invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor was the day the United States was suprised attacked by the Japanese military.
  • Battle of Wake Island

    Battle of Wake Island
    The Battle of Wake Island began with the attack on Pearl Harbor, and ended with the surrender of American forces of the Empire of Japan.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    The Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany held in Berlin.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    The Battle of the Baatan Death March was on the main island of Luzon; 75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to march around to prison campus.
  • The Battle MIdway

    The Battle MIdway
    The Battle of Midway was cruical and destructive naval battle in the Pacific.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    The Battle of Guadalcanal and a codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces; was also a Campaign.
  • Battle of Alamein

    Battle of Alamein
    The second battle of Alamein took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    Operation Torch was the British invasion of French North Africa during the North Africa Campaign.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    The Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the control of the city in Southern Russia.
  • Warsaw Ghetto uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto uprising
    The act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
  • Allied invasion of Italy

    Allied invasion of Italy
    The allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943.
  • Battle of Monte Cassino

    Battle of Monte Cassino
    The Banks of the Rapido River (the blody rapido) when the allies ran their end at Anzio and they failed.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy,France.
  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

    Liberation of Concentration Camps
    They entered the Majdanek camp in Poland and later overan several other killing centers.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the defensive forested in the regions like France;Berlin, Western front.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    A major battle where the United States of America Armed forces landed and captured the island Iwo JIma from the Japanese.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.
  • Operation Market Garden

    Operation Market Garden
    General Montgomery's plan got put into action by General Eisenhower
  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic
    The Battle of Atlantic was long and continuous; running from 1939 to defeat the Germany in 1945.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
  • Potsdam Declaration

    Potsdam Declaration
    The Proclaimation defining terms for the Japanese Surrender.
  • Dropping the Atomic Bombs

    Dropping the Atomic Bombs
    American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city; wiped out the city and killed 80,000 people, ten thousands more died because of radiation.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials
    The Nuremburg Trials were a tribunals held by the allied forces after World War II.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    When the allies excepted the Nazi Germany's official surrender.