-
Japan invades Manchuria
-
Period: to
From Apeasement To The End Of World War II
-
Neutrality Acts of the U.S
-
Italy takes over Ethiopia
-
Hitler enters France/Rhineland
-
Anschluss Of Austria
Union of Austria and Germany to "preserve rule" in Austrailia and violated the versailles treaty -
Munich Conference
Conference where British and France chose appeasement and caved into Hitlers plans to get Czechoslovakia and sudentenland -
Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia
-
Nazi-Soviet pact
Hitler and Stalin make a pact to not fight if they got into war and also to divide up Poland -
Invasion of Poland
-
Genesis of WWII
-
Hitler launches blitzkrieg on Norway and Belgium
Lightning war consisting of fast rapid bomb strikes -
Hitler slams Netherlands and Belgium
-
Germany enters France
-
France falls
-
Operation sealion and Blitz on London
Invasion of Britain consisting of massive airstrikes against the island nation -
Axis powers take over north Africa and the balkans
-
operation Sea lion fails
-
Hitler enacts Operation Barborossa
Plan of taking the ural mountains for natural rescources -
Germanys Siege of Leningrad (Russia)
-
Japan Attacks United states Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii causing U.S to declare war on Japan -
U.S declares War on Japan
-
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S
-
Japan loses the Battle of the Coral Sea
Island hopping campaign the U,S used to attack Japan -
Japan loses the Battle of Midway
-
The Big Three Meet
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet and agree on finishing the war on Europe before they finish the war on Asia -
Hitler launches new offensive of stalingrad
-
Germans Surrender at Stalingrad
-
Allies seize North Africa
-
Italians surrender to allies
-
Kamikazi missions
-
Yalta Conference
The three leaders agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of Germanys surrender -
D-Day Assault
Invasion of France, Allied powers dropped paratroopers, and thousands of ships were ferried -
Battle of the Bulge
-
Battle of Iwo Jima
-
British and American forces cross Thine/Battle of Okinawa
-
Cold War Begins
-
Charter of the United Nations
Countries formed a world organization to play a greater role in world affairs -
FDR dies, Truman becomes President
-
Hitler commits suicide
-
Germany surrenders
-
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day where the allies beat the axis powers due to germany surrendering -
First Test of the Manhattan project/Truman warns Japan to surrender
-
U.S Drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan refuses to surrender twice and the U.S drops the A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Japan Surrenders
-
Formal Peace Treaty Signed on The American Battleship Missouri
-
Nuremburg Trials
-
Truman Doctrine Adopted
A doctrine named after President Truman to contain communism -
Marshall Plan Enacated
To beat communism and strengthen democracy, the US offered money or aid packages to help countries rebuild -
The division of Germany
The soviets were angry because the Western Allies helped rebuild West Germany's economy. The soviets controlled East Germany -
The Berlin Airlift
-
Nato Signed
Countries pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviets responded to NATO and formed their own military alliances
