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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan wanted to over take China to expand in territory and eventually rise to a major world power. They took control of many countries and signed a treaty with Germany and Italy to reassure their goal over overtaking Europe. -
Dachau opened (first concentration camp)
The concentratoin camp was orginally created to house political prisoners, and eventually evolved into a tragic death camp for the Jews as well as many others. -
Hitler becomes the dictator of Germany
Hitler becomes the dictator og Germany after the deat of the German President von Hindenburg. -
Germans had to take an oath pledging theirsleves to the Nazi party.
Hitler enforced a new law declaring that all Germans had to join with him and actively participate in the Nazi Party, if not, they were sent to concentration camps. -
Nuremburg Laws
This law banned German Jews to have relationships with Reich citizens. The German Jews were not allowed to marrry them and it deprived them of most of their political rights. -
German Forces enter Rhineland
The Rhineland, under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was to be a place of demilitarisation. Hitler took the risk of marching in and overtaking it. France and Britain did not acknowledge it, causing Hitler to realize that he had more power than he thought. -
Herschel Grynszpan killed German diplomat in Paris
The assasination of the German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, persuaded Hitler to make a move of destruction towards the Jews- Kristallnacht. -
Anti Jewish Violence (kristallnacht)
Hitler ordered his soldiers and Gestapo to destroy Jewsih communities such as their shops and houses. It is also called the night of broken glass. -
Hitler invades Poland, World War II begins
Germans pact a pact with the Soviet Union stating that Poland would be partioned bewteeen the two. France and Great Britain declared an appeasement which said that Germany had to restrain their countries territory. When Germany invaded Poland, France and Great Britiain were furious and declared war. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
This happened because the invasion of Poland and the broken agreement among France, Great Britain, and Germany. -
Italy joins the War
The leader of Italy was Beniot Mussolini, known as Il Duce. He joined with Hitler and the Fascist party to eventually take over Europe. He was defeated after the Allied invasion of Italy. -
Hitler took control of France
The French were surrounded at Dunkirk and were forced to surrender. Paris was abandoned and left for the Germans to invade. Germany makes an armistice with France in the same spot as in World War I. Hitler does this to show his revenge. -
Triparite Pact is signed among Italy, Germany, and Japan.
These three countries joined forces and shared common ideas of how to take order and control. The pact declared that these three countries would provide assistance to one another. -
Hitler cancelled invasion of Great Britain
This event provided hope fir the French and the British, It showed that it was possiblr to stop Hitler's indefeatable army. Word spread around and encouraged the French and British to keep fighting. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters the war
Japan planned at surprise attack at Pearl Harbor located in Hawaii. More than 2,400 Americans died, 21 ships were sunk, and more than 188 aircrafts were destroyed. -
Wannsee Conference
Most of the leaders of Germany met together to disguss the :final solution" for the Jews. Their idea was just to eliminate them entirely. -
Death March to Tegernsee
Those who were kept at Dachau were sent on a death march to Tergernsee. If anyone fell behind, they were eliminated instantly. American soldiers liberated all the remaining people from Dachau. -
Hitler commits suicide
HItler knew that Germany would be overpowered and that he didnt have a chance of regaining control. He and his wife both committed suicide. -
VE Day, Germans surrender
The german general JodI signed the agreement proclaiming his surrender which officially ended World War II. -
United Stated drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
An american B-29 dropped the first deployed atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It wiped out 90% of the city and the bombing killed 80,000 people. Many people died later because of the exposure to radiation. -
The United states airforce drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States bombed Nagasaki and killed about 40,000 people. -
Japanese surrender, ends WWII
Japan surrenders aboard the USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay after the invasion of the Japan's main island that held all their naval equipment.
