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german blitzkrieg
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery
The next blow came a month later. In the early morning darkness of May 10, the Germans unleashed their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium. -
Fall of Paris
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy ParisThe French, having decided not to fight in the capital itself, have withdrawn south of the city.
In deciding not to defence Paris the French Command "aimed at sparing it the devastation which defence would have involved. The command considered that no valuable strategic result justified the sacrifi -
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition p -
attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,[9] the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI
was a surprise military strike by the japansese Navy against the US in Hawaii started at 7:48am 353 fighter planes,bombers,and torpedo planes in two waves all battles ships were damaged with four sunk2,303 Americans were killed and 1178 were injured. -
wannsee confernce
was a meeting of senior officals of Nazi Germany in Berlin in the surburb of wannsee
The purpose of the conference, called by director of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered. Conference attendees included rep -
Battle of Midway
the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.A thousand miles northwest of Honolulu, the strategic island of Midway became the focus of his scheme to smash U.S. resistance to Japan’s designs. Yamamoto’s plan con -
Allied invasion of Italy
Planning for the invasion fell to Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the commander of the 15th Army Group, General Sir Harold AlexanderEighth Army's XIII Corps crossed the Straits of Messina and commenced landings at various points in Calabria. Meeting light Italian opposition, Montgomery's men had little trouble coming ashore and began forming to move northDuring the course of the invasion of Italy, Allied forces sustained 2,009 killed, 7,050 wounde -
d-day
were the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation overload during WWII was the largest seaborne invasion in history began in German occupied Northern Europe and contrbuted to the Alled victory on the Western Front -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major german campaign launched throughforest regio on the Western fromt at the end of WWII was a surprise attack US bore the blunt of the attack with several Gernam Foreces depleted unable to replace them After a day of hard fighting, the Germans broke through the American front, surrounding most of an infantry division, seizing key crossroads, and advancing their spearheads toward the Meuse River, creating the projection that gave the battle its name. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
was a major battle which the US captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese army. the goal was to capture the island and the air fields , was going to be used for staging site the battle took 5 weeks and took heavy hits and the became useless to the US.
however the Navy rebuilt the air fields and were used as emergency landing strips -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa has been called the largest sea-land-air battle in history. It is also the last battle of the Pacific War. lasted 82 daysThen on the morning of April 1st, navy ships rained a prelanding bombardment of 44,825 shells, 33,000 rockets and 22,500 mortar shells plus napalm attacks by carrier planes on the invasion beaches. This was the incendiary prelude to the Battle of Okinawa which Masahide Ota was to aptly and vividly describe in his book as "the typhoon of steel and bombs -
liberation of concentration camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease.S forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. On the day of libera -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day or VE day was the public holiday to mark the end of WWII in Europe -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing 80,000
although dropping the bomb ended the WWII many says it started the cold war
Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” 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.
