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Japanese invasion of China
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Germany invasion of Poland
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German invasion of poland
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operation barbosa
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pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked -
wannsee conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
D day-normandy invasion
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operation thunderclap
o launch an attack on Dresden; this was to be the first in a series of large bombing raids on the principal cities of eastern Germany, designed to deliver the final blows to German morale. Operation "Thunderclap," the code name for all the raids, was just another step in the British War Cabinet's planned campaign of area bombing -- to Harris, the best way to end the war.... -
battle of okinawa
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veday
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dropping of atomic
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vjday
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battle of iwo
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battle of bulge
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operation gomorrah
