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Treaty of Versailles
Ends WWI and starts WWII -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler burns his house so that he would get the emergence powers -
“Hitler’s Olympics” (1936 Summer Olympics)
Hitler hosted the Olympics before WWII -
German invasion of Poland
German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
Tripartite Pact, agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan -
Nazi’s establish gas chambers at Aushwitz
More than 1 million people, by some accounts, lost their lives at Auschwitz. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
They were camps that F.D.Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans to be sent to. -
Battle of Midway
the clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan's attack on the US -
D-Day
the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord -
Iwo Jima
According to postwar analyses, the Imperial Japanese Navy had been so crippled by earlier World War II clashes in the Pacific that it was already unable to defend the empire’s island holdings, including the Marshall archipelago. -
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Axis powers surrender (Germany, Japan, Italy all have separate dates)
First Axis partner to give up: it surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943, six weeks after leaders of the Italian Fascist Party deposed Fascist leader
On May 7, 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces
On May 7, 1945, seven days after Hitler committed suicide, Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Japan fought on alone, surrendering formally on September 2, 1945.