July 16, 1945

A plutonium device was tested

The code name for the test was "Trinity"

The explosion vaporised all buildings in the area and turned the ground into glass.

https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test/

December 7, 1941

The first Japanese dive-bomber appeared at 7:55

At 8:50, the second wave came, but it was less successful

The attack left many Navy soldiers crippled

September 1, 1939

The attack was sounded with the predawn shelling

Before the invasion, Hitler's general staff worried that the assault was premature

In the end, Germany loses 14,000 dead and 30,000 injured

https://www.britannica.com/event/Invasion-of-Poland

April 1, 1945

The air and sea attacks that preceded the invasion had begun as early as October 1944

On March, American underwater demolition teams and minesweepers cleared obstacles from the landing beaches

By April 4, U.S. Army and Marines had cut the island in two

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Okinawa

August 19, 1942

England, the unsinkable base, was just a short naval journey to occupied coasts from the northern tip

At a strategic level, commando operations were great publicity and kept the United Kingdom in the war

At the end over half were killed, wounded, or captured

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942

April 1935

It releases the bomb at a low altitude for better accuracy

The Ju 87 had dive brakes to slow the dive and give pilot more time to aim

It was armed with four 7.9-millimetre machine gun

December 13, 1937

The Japanese army killed 300,000 civilians

They raped tens of thousands of women

Tōjō Hideki and other wartime leaders of Japan were accused of crimes against peace.

https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/nanjing-massacre

May 7-9, 1945

Hitler committed suicide on April 30th.

The Soviet army linked up with their American counterpart

Victory was proclaimed on May 8th

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/german-forces-surrender-to-the-allies#:~:text=German%20armed%20forces%20surrendered%20unconditionally,London%2C%20Moscow%2C%20and%20Paris.

June 22, 1941

The invasion was crucial for achieving Hitler's goals of Lebensraum

At the beginning of the invasion, Zhukov stationed himself on the east to fight the Japanese

In January 1944, between 600,000 and a million died

https://www.worldatlas.com/world-wars/major-battles-of-world-war-ii.html

February 15, 1945

There were 885 colored women who comprised the 6888th central postal directory battalion

Bethune was responsible for recruiting the woman who would become the highest-ranking African American Army officer during World War II Charity Adams

After battalion commander charity Adams and her executive officer capt.

https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/a-different-kind-of-victory-the-6888th-central-postal-directory-battalion/

Started training on January 16, 1941

During this “experiment,” the airmen were required to meet the typical military standards, including having a college education, and reach the same fitness goals set by the Army

Following this accomplishment, over 16,000 Tuskegee Airmen were trained in Alabama.

There were more than African American males there were white males and females of different races doing mechanics

https://www.pbs.org/articles/who-are-the-tuskegee-airmen

1940

During battle, one person would operate the portable radio while the second person would relay and receive messages in the native language and translate them into English

Their work was highly dangerous since the Japanese hunted them down

Despite their hard work, they were told to keep their work a secret

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indian-code-talkers

A dental surgeon came up with the idea in 1942

Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the green light and handed over the Army Chemical Warfare Service

Both the U.S. Army and Navy spent millions of dollars and captured thousands of bats

The idea was shut down in 1944 and the surgeon swore it was gonna be stronger than the Atomic bomb but less harful to civilians

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

Started in January 1933 - May 1945

They started by using the government to target and exclude jews from German society

The Nazi's targetted jews cause they hated them

They built Killing Centers to murder jews on a mass scale

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

This was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1942 to 1945

Canada and Mexico soon joined in and got their Japanese descent from their West Coast

They had about 143,264 Japanese people in the camps

On August 4, 1942, a riot broke out in the Santa Anita assembly center as a result of anger about insufficient rations and overcrowding

https://www.history.com/articles/japanese-american-relocation

October 3, 1935

Italians committed countless atrocities in the state

The League of Nations was criticized sharply

A march for this drew 25,000 African Americans and anti-fascist Italian Americans

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ethiopia-invaded/

The U.S. joined Great Britain's strategic bombing of Germany's cities

Hitler and his Propaganda responded by creating Wunderwaffen

The Windkanone was an anti-aircraft weapon that didn’t fire a projectile.

The wind cannon could snap a wooden board in half from 200 meters, but in deployment, it was a dud

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

This was created by the top-secret British Special Operations Executive

The SOE hid explosives in every disguise imaginable, including dead rats

They used 100 dead rats under the pretense

Nazis intercepted dead rats, sending specimens to military schools to alert cadets to exploding rodents.

The Soviets trained dogs as suicide bombers

They had to carry several pounds of explosives

When the dogs slipped under the trigger was activated

Over 40,000 were trained to make the ultimate sacrifice

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

Looks like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon

It was an attachment that added a curve to it

There were 30-degree ones for shooting around obstacles, and 90-degree ones were for shooting out of an armored vehicle

Americans tried their weapon, but it is tested poorly by splitting the bullet when ricocheting in the barrel

https://www.history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii