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Rape of Nanking
This was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing then to capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino Japanese War, occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. There were 40,000 to over 300,000 people were murdered -
Fall of Paris
This was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on 22 June 1941 -
Pearl Harbor
Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States into World War II -
Wannsee Conference
This was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942 during the war. The purpose of the conference was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various departments in the answer "the final solution to the Jewish question" -
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942 the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of midway
It was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. United States Navy under Admirals defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Battle of stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia during February 2, 1943 -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the war, which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. On 19 of April when the Ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS, who ordered the burning of the Ghetto, block by block, ending 16 May. killing more then 10,000 jews most suffocated or were burned alive -
Operation Gomorrah
On July 26. 1943 This is one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city -
D-Day
On Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history to fight against the control area of Europe by nazis -
battle of the bulge
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battle of the bulge
It was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard, and it severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the Western Front, and they were largely unable to replace them -
Potsdam Declaration
On July 26, 1945, The Potsdam Declaration was to define Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II -
dropping of the atomic bomb
The bomb was created around this area in time, President Harry Truman ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Japan surrenders, VJ DAY
The Japanese representatives aboard the USS Missouri at the Surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. Victory over Japan Day -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during the war
