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Great depression starts in the usa
In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929 -
hitler becomes chancellor
January 30th 1933 marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic -
The night of broken glass
A huge attack on Jews throughout the German Reich -
nazi soviet pact
Out of the blue, on 23 August 1939, Hitler made the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin - a promise not to go to war with each other and (secretly) a promise to invade Poland and split it between them. -
germany invades poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion -
blitzkrieg used in battle of great britain
the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force -
lend lease act
It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
yalta conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 -
bomb dropped in Hiroshima
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
bomb dropped on nagasaki
Nagasaki suffered the same fate as Hiroshima in August 1945. The bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered. -
establishment of the united nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations
