1942-1945

September 30, 1928, July 2, 2016

holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner

1939

The soldiers had fought in every theater of war, providing manpower and resources.

A VC winner from elsewhere in the Empire was Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu, of the Fiji Military Forces, who earned this highest of all commendations in June 1944, at Bougainville.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/colonies_colonials_01.shtml

1942 to 1946

In Europe, to organize a project was organized to exploit the newly recognized fission process for military purposes.

Uranium-235, the essential fissile component of the postulated bomb, cannot be separated from its much more abundant natural companion, Uranium-238.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project

in 1942

to drop the casings from bombers over Japan, triggering fires and causing widespread damage

initiating fires in Japan, leveraging the bats' natural tendency to seek dark, enclosed spaces.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bat-bombs-wwiis-project-x-ray/

1941-1942

Germans ordered Jews in the ghettos to wear identifying badges or armbands. They also required many Jews to carry out forced labor for the German Reich.

Final solution: the plan to murder all European Jews, beginning in late 1941, the Germans systematically destroyed the ghettos.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos

1943

Jewish units fought the Germans in city ghettos and behind the front lines in the forests.

As many as 10,000 Jews survived the war by taking refuge with Jewish partisan units.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/armed-jewish-resistance-partisans

1942

Internment camps were typically surrounded by barbed wire, patrolled by armed guards, and 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated.

The attack on Pearl Harbor fueled widespread fear and distrust of Japanese Americans, leading to the belief that they might be spies or saboteurs. 

https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm

Oct. 3, 1935

Italy invaded and conquered Ethiopia, eventually establishing Italian East Africa.

Italian colonial power in Africa sought revenge for an earlier defeat at the Battle of Adowa in 1896, and boost national prestige.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Italo-Ethiopian-War-1935-1936

May 7, 1945

unfavorable military situations, political turmoil, and the loss of key leaders had them to the point of surrendering.

to overwhelming military defeats and the complete collapse of their infrastructure and morale, which they giving up.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-europe/german-surrender.html

September 1945

After being defeated by the United States and other Allied powers

Due to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-2/japan-surrenders

1943 and 1944

designed to knock down low-flying Allied aircraft using a blast of air instead of projectiles.

aimed to knock down low-flying Allied aircraft by ejecting a powerful blast of air.

https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/wind-cannon.html

1941

fill rat carcasses with plastic explosives and place them near boiler rooms, hoping they would be thrown into the fires, causing explosions.

as a weapon to be used against German forces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_gallery_05.shtml

1940

The German Army quickly swept through the country, and Allied troops found themselves surrounded in Dunkirk.

because Allied forces, including the British Expeditionary Force, were trapped by the German invasion of France and Belgium in May.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-dunkirk-evacuations