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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty the Germany was forced to sign after WWI which wreaked the German economy -
Hitler voted into power in germany
Hitler was voted into power because he called on Reichstag members to vote enabling act to grant Hitler "temporary" plenary powers. -
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Hitlers olympics
The summer Olympics in 1936 in Berlin which Hitler used as propaganda -
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Japan's invasion of china
Japan invaded china and massacred many thousand civilians to show that they could inflict harm if a war broke out -
Hitlers invasion of Poland
The true start of WWII when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Poland and put polish Jews in concentration camps -
Tripartite pact signed
Tripartite Pact, agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, one year after the start of World War II -
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Nazis establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
When the German concentration camp at Auschwitz killed about 600 Prisoners of war and 250 sick poles -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombing the American naval base in Hawaii known as pearl harbor which forced us into the war -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
This was when FDR gave the order to put all Japanese Americans into internment camps right after Pearl Harbor -
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Midway
A 3 day naval battle between the American and Japanese forces over the island of Midway Atoll -
Italy's surrender
The day that Italy surrendered after the invasion of Sicily -
D-Day
The day that the Allied powers crossed the English channel and stormed the french beaches to try to bring the war to an end and reclaim France for the allies -
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Iwo Jima
The many day battle fought by the marines and the army for the island so that we could move closer to Japan -
Germany's Surrender
The day Germany surrendered after Hitler commuted suicide. -
Atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
The first atomic bomb ever seen before and it was the first dropped in WWII and it was to convince Japan to surrender -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb that caused Japan to surrender from WWII official ending the war -
Japan's Surrender
The day that Japan oficialy surrenders after the atom bomb is dropped