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The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the treaties at the end of world 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the alied Powers. It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The Treaty of Versailles which had ended the state of ended failing miserably due to the unfair rules and reparation placed on germany. -
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers. -
German Anschluss with Austria
the Republic of Astria attempted union with Germany it was forbidden due the union and also due to the treaty of versailles. Austria was then annexed into the Third Reich. There had been several years of pressure by supporters in both Austria and Germany by Nazis to unify Germany again. The sent troops into Austria to enforce the Anschluss the votes were supposedly %99 in Germany favor to become unified with Austria. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was extremely influential for WWII because it breached the terms of the munich agreement. The munich agreement said that if Germany invaded Poland the Allied powers would go to war against them. -
Britain and France declare War on Germany
In response to Germanys invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies declare war on Germany.Britain and France had sworn to defend Poland. Honoring the commitements they raged war on Germany. -
Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. -
Italy joins the war and allies with axis powers
Benito Mussolini helps to dominate the war with Hitler and Hideki Togo. -
Second Armistice at Compiègne
The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 6:50 near Compiègne, France, between Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic..It established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France that surrounded all the English chanel and Atlantic Ocean. -
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty, was the pact that established the Axis Powers of World War II. It was signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940 by representatives of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. -
Operation Barbossa
Operation Barbossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. -
Attack on Pearl Harbour
Attack on Pearl Harbour was a suprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This suprise attack was so influential on WWII because it led to the United States entry into WWII. -
Britain and The United States of America declare war on Japan
An a hour after Franklin D. Roosevelt deliverd is presidential address to the public known as the Infamy Speech, The United States Congress had declared war on Japan along with Britain aiding America's side. -
Battle of Singapore
The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War when the Empire of Japan invaded the Allied stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in South-East Asia and nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East". The fighting in Singapore lasted from 8–15 February 1942. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
Storming the beaches of Normandy
The Allied invasion of Normandy was to invade and reclaim the parts of Europe which was dictated by the Axis powers. Making sure this invasion did'nt work, Hitler ordered a defensive wall with concrete bunkers,machine guns and heavy artilley to be built all along the western side of Europe. Making an assumption Hitler presumed they would invade on a souther part of the Atlantic Wall. Hitler presumed wrong and had stationed all his best troops and and heavy artilley at the wrong spot. -
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini his mistress and a few close associates of his tried fleeing only to be captured and hanged in public view. -
Nazi Germany surrenders
Nazi Germany surrendered on May 7th 1945 thus bringing World War Two in Europe to an end. On May 6th General Alfred Jodl arrived at General Dwight Eisenhower’s temporary headquarters a small schoolhouse in Reims, France to sign the surrender document. Four versions of the surrender document were required: in English, French, Russian and German. -
V.E. Victory in Europe
Victory in Europe Day,was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The US conducted the strike on Hiroshima. The bomb killed 160,000 mostly civilians. Hiroshima was a city of both industrial and military significance. A number of military units were inside it, thats why it was such a target. Another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki four days later. It was also one of the most powerful cities in Japan. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler is waiting inside the fuhrerbunker a very large concrete structure. While the Third Reich crumbles around Hitler completely distraught and hopeless he pulls out his personal pistol the very small Walther PPK 7.65 and shoots himself in the head ending the Fuhrer's reign. -
Surrender of Japan
Japans two most powerful cities had been destroyed by the atomic bomb the US had dropped on them. With the loss of all the military manufacturers to fuel their war and with the Allies rapidly gaining ground on the Japs they had no choice to surrender.