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Japan invades China
Began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria, and set up a Japanese-controlled state called Manchukuo -
Munich Conference
An agreement that stopped Nazi's Germany annexed of Czech and the region of sudenteland. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Neville Chamberlain decided to follow a policy of "appeasement" and give in to Hitler on this issue, in the hope that Hitler would not make any more demand -
Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War I -
Invasion of Poland
Known as the September Campaign in Germany was an invasion of Polan by Germany that marked the beginning of WW2. Chamberlain decided to follow a policy of "appeasement" and give in to Hitler on this issue, in the hope that Hitler would not make any more demand. To neutralize the possibility that the USSR would come to Poland's aid, Germany signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939 -
Blitzkrieg
A method of warfare where an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured fighting utilities. -
Battle of Britain
Was the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom in 1940. In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces while proving that air power alone could be used to win a major battle -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations. By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countries, the act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle. -
Operation Barbarossa
The code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and was authorized by Hitler from the Nazi Party. On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attack of the U.S. naval base located in Hawaii killing 2000 U.S. soldiers and injuring many more. 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 Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany held in the suburbs of Wansee, Germany. It was to ensure the cooperation of adminstrative leaders to the final jewish question. On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Bataan Death March
the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of about 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps -
Battle of Midway
One of the most important naval battles occuring six months after the Pearl Harbor attack. The fight was between the United States and the Japananese naval forces. the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was a major battle in which the Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad located in the USSR. was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies -
D-Day
Is a day on which combat attack or operation to be iniated. The day of Normandy Landings initating the Western allied efforts to liberate mainland Europe. It resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 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
It was a major german campaign as hitler planned the offensive attack with the goal to recapture the important habor of Antwerp.Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg. Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s successful maneuvering of the Third Army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German counteroffensive despite heavy casualties. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Also called the Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops -
Battle of Okinawa
Was fought on the island of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War. The battle between the United States and Japan lasted 82 days and involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army -
V-E Day
Stands for Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8. It marks the formal acceptance by the allies and the Nazi Party to end World War 2 in Europe. On Monday May 7th at 02.41. German General Jodl signed the unconditional surrender document that formally ended war in Europe -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide that killed at estimate of six million jews by the Nazi Party and held jews in concentration camps. the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community -
V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay, Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany -
The Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. U.S. bombing with an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan killing 90,000 to 166,000 people. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements. Following World War II, the Soviet Union had concluded bilateral treaties with each of the East European states except for East Germany, which was still part of the Soviet occupied-territory of Germany
