Key events in WW2

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  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese invasion of Manchuria
    The Empire of Japan's Kwangtung army invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchuria.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
    The NSDAP gained the posts: Hitler was name chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Goring, Minister without Portfolio (and Minister of the Interior for Prussia).
  • Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

    Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
    German troops enter the remaining Czech parts of Czechoslovakia, meeting practically no resistance (the only instance of organized resistance took place in Mistek where an infantry company commanded by Karel Pavlik fought invading German troops).
  • Russia and Germany sign pact

    Russia and Germany sign pact
    Germany and Soviet union sighed a-non aggression pact. Known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The countries agreed they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them. Germany claimed Western Poland and part of Lithuania.
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland
    German invaded Poland. They lied the world about the reason for the war.
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany
    Two days after Germany invaded Poland. France and United Kingdom declared war on Germany same day.
  • Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia

    Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
    The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April war or Operation 25 was a German-led attack on the kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers during World War II.
  • Hitler invades Denmark and Norway

    Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
    This fight known as Operation Weserubung. Germany attacked Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrendered and was occupied. The country was a useful base of operations for the fight again Norway.
  • Italy enters war on side of Axis powers

    Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
    Shortly before Germany defeated France, Italy joined the war as Germany's ally. In addition to invading France, Italy forces attacked British interests in North and East Africa.
  • France signs Armistice with Germany

    France signs Armistice with Germany
    The French delegation signs the Armistice agreement imposed by Germany at the very location of the 1918 Armistice signing. This entailed France's surrender in the Second World War.
  • Chamberlain resigns

    Chamberlain resigns
    After the failure of the British efforts to liberate Norway. Chamberlain wanted to start a fight but everyone disagree with that decision. The most of them lost faith in him so he resigned because he knows a country can't develop if every citizen don't belive their president.
  • Pearl Harbour

    Pearl Harbour
    The attack on Pearl Harbour was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United states against the American navel base at Pearl Harbour in Honolulu Hawaii, just before 8:00 am on Sunday.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    The Operation Barbarossa was invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies during the World War II. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part.
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders
    The invasion of Sicily in July 1943 led to the collapse of the Fascist Italian regime and the fall of Mussolini, who was deposed and arrested by order of Kingdom Victor Emmanuel III on 25 July. The new government signed an armistice with the Allies.
  • Paris liberated

    Paris liberated
    The liberation of Paris was a military battle that took place during the World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944
  • Mussolini captured and executed

    Mussolini captured and executed
    Mussolini was captured on the 27 April 1945 but his executioner occurred on 28 April. He was executed by an Italian partisan in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy
  • Russians reach Berlin

    Russians reach Berlin
    The Red army barelled into Berlin and captured the city, the final step in defeating the Third Reich and ending the World War II in Europe. By spring 1945 World War II had been raging in Europe for more than five years.
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders
    Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. He and the German Third Reign surrendered with unconditional in the early morning hours of the Monday.
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
    After the surrender of Germany and Italy, Japan still not surrender. Because of the hard-headed of the Japan, American decided to drop nuclear bomb nicknamed "Little Boy". At 8.15 am (Hiroshima time), the "Little Boy" was dropped. At least it killed 80,000 people, it destroyed all the things in Hiroshima.
  • Japanese surrender

    Japanese surrender
    After nuclear was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because of its destruction, Japan decided to sign the official Instrument of the Surrender, prepare by the President Harry S. Truman.