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Japanese invasion of China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It was fought near Peiping North China. Secretary Hull issued a statement of fundamental principles of international policy. The Secretary stated that any situation in which armed hostilities were in progress or were threatened was a situation where there rights and interests of all nations either were or might be seriously affected. -
Rape of Nanking
Nanking which is the capital of China had fallen to Japanese. The Chinese government fled to Hankow which was inland along the Yangtze River. In the Rape of Nanking the Japanese butchered about 150,000 male "war prioners" and 50,000 male civilians, and 20,000 women and girls of all ages. -
Germany's invasion on Poland
1.5 million German troops invaded Poland at 4:45 a.m. all along its 17750 mile border with a German-controlled territory. At the same time German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, while German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces. Hitler said the massive invasion was a defensive action. -
German Blitzkrieg
This was a German term for "lightning war", blitzkreig is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces. Germans tried this out in 1939 against Poland and it was successful. It was used by commander Erwin Rommel during the North African campaign of WWII, and was adopted by the U.S. General George Patton. -
Fall of Paris
Parisians awaken to the sound of a German accented voice announcing over loud speakers that a curfew was given for 8 p.m. German troops had entered Paris. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to get the French government to hang on, as America would enter the war and come to there aid. -
Operation Barbossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German Soldier, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks. The invasion covered a front from North Cape to the Black Sea. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack of Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most largest naval battles of WWII. The Japanese were countered by the U.S. causing permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Pearl Harbor
It was about 8 a.m. when hundred of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. It lasted about two hours, but it was devastating. The Japs managed to destroy almost 20 American naval vessels and eight enormous battle ships and 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died. After the day F.D.R declared war on Japan. -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during WWII. About 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek intense. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland was an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout Eastern Europe which was also German-occupied. -
D-Day
D-day is when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive offensive of the war. Operation mist or the Battle of the Bulge which was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Germans created a "bulge" around the area of Ardennes Forest pushing through American defensive line. -
Liberation of concentration camps
As Allied troops move across Europe, they encounter the horror of thousands of prisoners in Nazi camps. Many prisoner were burned and tortured at concentration camps like Auschwitz which was the largest of the Nazi Concentration and death camps. -
Operation Thunderclap
There was a series of Allied firebombing raids against the German city of Dresden, reducing the "Florence of the Elbe" to rubble and flames. It killed as many as 135,00 people. It was the single most destructive bombing of the war. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa involved 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. It was an 82-day campaign, Japan had lost 77,000 soldiers. -
VE Day
VE Day is the celebration of victory in Europe which both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations put out flags and banners,rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
At 8:16 a.m., an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the worlds first atomic bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. About 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the bomb and 35,000 injured. 60,000 would at least be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
Potsdam Declaration
Japan submits its acquiescence to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender. President Harry S. Truman ordered a halt to the atomic bombing. Emperor remained aloof from the daily decisions of prosecuting the war. -
VJ Day
VJ Day is when Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Which ended WWII, since then August 14 and 15 have been know as "Victory over Japan Day" or V-J Day. The term is also used for September 2 when Japan formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S Missouri. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was the invasion Iwo Jima by Americans during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. (History.com all my information came from here)
