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Japanese Invasion of China
On September 18, 1931, Japan invaded China. Japan saw that China was a divided country with civil war taking place.Japan took action and invaded and occupied Manchuria. Japan invaded China because of its resources -
Holocaust
Starting on January 30, 1933, mass murder of jews, gypsies, and resistant people. About 12 million people died in total. 6 Million of those were jews. There were killing camps across europe that the people were killed, or worked/starved to death -
Italt Invades Ethiopia
On October 3,1935 the kingdom Italy and the Ethiopian Empire fought in a bloody battle for 7 months. The war is remembered for exposing the weakness of The League of Nations. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
On August 23, 1939 Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with germany. They agreed to not take military action against each other for the next 10 years. Germany broke the promise by invading the soviet union on June 22, 1941. -
German Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, 1.5 million german troops invaded Poland along it’s 1,750 mile long border with german controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
German Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a German tactic of fighting offensive weapons along a narrow front, then while the enemy is disoriented armored vehicles would breach enemy bases, and the German air force would prevent counter airstrikes and supply drops.
Attack places and dates; September 1939, Denmark, Norway in April 1940), Belgium, Netherlands Luxembourg, and France in May 1940. Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941. -
Operation Sea Lion
On September 17, 1940Operation Sea Lion was Hitler’s plan to invade Britain, but after the German Air Force was unable to achieve air supremacy so Hitler cancelled the mission indefinitely. -
Lend- Lease Act
On March 11, 1941 the Lend-Lease Act was signed to allow the U.S to provide aid or defense materials to any nation deemed necessary or vital to the defense of the United States. -
German Invasion of Soviet Union
On June 22, 1941, Also known as Operation Barbarossa, i was the Nazi’s plan to invade the Soviet Union. An army of over 3 million troops started the massive invasion. This invasion was the turning point towards the loss of Nazi Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, at 8 a.m. Japan attacked the naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack killed 2,000 soldiers/sailors and injured another 1,000. US lost 300 airplanes, 20 vessels and 8 large battleships. The day of the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. -
Stalingrad
On January 1, 1942 through February 2,1943 was the successful defense of the city; Stalingrad. The invasion was one of the bloodiest battles in history and the total casualties was over 2 million. The battle was a major turning point in WWII because it forced Germany to fight a war on two fronts. -
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942, US surrendered the Bataan Peninsula during World War ll. The 75,000 US and Filipino were forced to walk 65 miles to prison camps. The walked in very harsh conditions and were treated bad by the Japanese guards. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on the 50 mile beach to invade the heavily fortified beach in France. The beach was heavily fortified by Nazi Germany. More than 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion that gained the allies a foothold in WW2. -
Battle of the Buldge
On December 16 1944, Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by a means of surprise blitzkrieg. Heavy casualties and a shortage of fuel and supplies proved fatal to Hitler and his armies. General George S. Patton helped maneuver the third Army and stop the Germans. -
VE Day
On May 8th, 1945, This day marks the day that German troops dropped their guns in defeat. Britain and US celebrated and put out flags and banners to celebrate the Nazi’s defeat. The surrender was realized in a final cease fire. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing 80,000 people instantly and wiped out 90% of the city. Tens of thousands would die later from radiation poisoning. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
On August 9, 1945, after Hiroshima a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the allies effectively ending World War II. The formal surrender took place on board the U.S.S Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
Cold War
The war was about the future of Europe at first. The war later grew with confrontations across the world. Was a state of military and political tension after World War ll. -
Warsaw Pact
On May 14, 1955 the Soviet Union and seven of its European delegates signed the Warsaw pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.