Events of WWII

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  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    attempt to gain control over the whole province

  • Hitler made Chancellor of Germany

  • The Munich March

    Agreement to stop the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to Germany

  • Kristallnacht

    sometimes called ( nights of broken glass), torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and killed close to a hundred Jews

  • Invasion of Poland

    first militarized attack starting ww2

  • Dunkirk

    an evacuation of 335,000 allied troops using warships, civilian ships, and lots of small boats with heavy German attacks from the air

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bombing

  • Bataan Death March

    American troops were forced to march about 65-miles to prison camps

  • Battle of Midway

    Admiral Isoroku Yammamoto planned an invasion of midway island which could provide a base for attacking Hawaii and he wanted to get the US Pacific fleet into a battle where he could destroy it

  • D-Day

    largest battle

  • Battle of the Bulge

    It was an attempted to split to allied armies in Northwest Europe

  • Yatla conference

  • VE Day

    Germany surrendered

  • The bombing of Hiroshima

    First nuclear weapon used in war, First Atomic bomb dropped

  • VJ Day

    Japan had surrendered