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Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Marco Polo Bridge Incident, (July 7, 1937), the conflict between Chinese and Japanese troops near the Marco Polo Bridge which led to war between the two countries.
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this happened to stop the spread of Communism around the globe.
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This law, sometimes called the Anschluss law, formally incorporated Austria into Nazi Germany. It gave the Anschluss the air of legality. Austria was no longer an independent country. It was now a province (Land) of Nazi Germany. -
The pact was an agreement of convenience between two bitter enemies. It permitted them to carve up spheres of influence in Eastern Europe while pledging not to attack each other for 10 years. Less than two years later, however, Hitler launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Germans stormed France and the Low Countries. Their goal was to conquer France. They wanted to bypass the French defense line through the Netherlands and Belgium at the eastern border. -
french lost mainly because of these three reasons intelligence failure, operational and tactical inferiority, and poor strategic leadership. -
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,403 service members wounded 1,178 more, and sank or destroyed six U.S. ships. They also destroyed 169 U.S. Navy and Army Air Corps planes. -
The Wannsee Conference was a high-level meeting of German officials to discuss and implement the so-called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” (mass killing). -
this happened to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps. -
this happened because It was believed a quick invasion of Italy might hasten Italian surrender and produce quick military victories over the German troops trapped fighting in a hostile country. -
Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. -
Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz—the largest killing center and concentration camp complex—in January 1945. -
this happened because the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. -
In thirty-six days of fighting on the island, nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines were killed. Another 20,000 were wounded. Marines captured 216 Japanese soldiers; the rest were killed in action. The island was finally declared secured. -
On this day in 1945, the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing an end to World War II in Europe. -
the atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki canceled planned invasion operations as the Japanese quickly surrendered. -
The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.