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Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allies powers. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
After lots of backroom negotiations, he was formally appointed as Germany's new chancellor by Hitler Hindenburg. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing -
"Hitler's Olympics"
The multi-sport event was held in the summer of 1936. This was when Hitler was the chancellor and the Olympics provided a perfect opportunity for the Nazis to showcase Hitler's Third Reich. -
Tripartite pact signed
A pact concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan about one year after WWII was started that created a defense alliance between the countries that was meant to not let the United States enter the conflict. -
Nazi's establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
After the victims undressed, they were taken into the gas chamber, locked in, and killed with Zyklon B gas. This was the most effective way of killing off hundreds of people. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States. This brought the United States into WWII. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
It was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps. -
The Battle of Midway
America's most important World War II naval wins, American intelligence is able to break codes to thwart a Japanese attack on the US. at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. -
Axis powers surrender (Italy)
Surrender to the Allies because their position was hopeless. -
Iwo Jima
t had been one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. After the battle, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen. -
Axis powers surrender (Germany)
The surrender of the Third Reich was surrendered in May by General Alfred Jodl -
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki so that they would surrender. -
Axis powers surrender (Japan)
Japanese representatives signed the Instrument of Surrender (caused by the deployment of a terrible weapon, atomic bomb)