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V-E Day
On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. -
Pairis peace confrence
This is where the big four met to discuses the Treaty of Versaillie. The big four where Britain, Italy, France, and Germany -
Nine Powere Treaty
The United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal agreed to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China. They committed themselves to the Open Door policy of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations in China. japan violated the treaty by invading Manchuria in 1931. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
Itaky was scared of haveing a republic governent. Mussolini changed the government from a monarchy to republic -
Beer Hall Putsch
adolf hitler and the nazis party lead a coalation group in an attemp for coup de tat. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
an agreement to outlaw war singed on augest 27 1928 -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
This in when the whole world basically went broke. this iw where people out money in to get more money out. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
This is when japan declared war. This was violating the Nine Powers Treaty. -
Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
hitler was not voted in. He was voted but lost. They desided sence he had the biggest political party they made him chancler. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
Japan left beacause they were blaming japan for mancheria. -
First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
This is when basically everything that was jewish was boycotted. -
Rohm Purge
Hitler assasinated his own men who he thought had the potntial to become leader in the futer. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
This is the day that hitler bit a cyanide capsoul and then shot himself in the head. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
This is when hitler started militarizing Germany -
Nuremberg Laws
On this day thew jew were strippedof citezenship. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Hitler disobayed the treaty of V and out military in the buffer zone between france and germany. -
Germany Annexes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Munich Conference
asically handing over cheslavokia. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
during the spanish civil war General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain. It would take more than two years for Franco to defeat the Republicans in the civil war and become ruler of all of Spain. He subsequently served as dictator until his death in 1975. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers, which will ultimately include Japan. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers, which will ultimately include Japan. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
the soviet union suprised the world by signing nonagressian pact. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
Battle of Britain
the french signed and armistice takeing thm out of WWII -
Italy invades Ethiopia
this is said to be the prep for WWII -
Lend Lease Act
This was the priciple means for providing aid for the military. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
360 jappaniese dive bombers came out of the clouds supriseing the US. this is what got the united states in WWII -
Wannsee Conference
On this day, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question." -
Doolittle Raid
On this day in 1942, 16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
On this day, the last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France. -
Operation Valkyrie
On this day in 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him. -
Battle of the Bulge
On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
Little Boy Dropped
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. -
Fat Man Dropped
This was a big atomic bomb -
V-J Day
On this day in 1945, the USS Missouri hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States. -
Nuremberg Trials
Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
In Tokyo, Japan, Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier and chief of the Kwantung Army, is executed along with six other top Japanese leaders for their war crimes during World War II. Seven of the defendants were also found guilty of committing crimes against humanity, especially in regard to their systematic genocide of the Chinese people
