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the Anti-Comintern Pact
the pact was an agreement concluded first between germany and japan, then between italy, germany, and japan, apparently directed against the communist international (comintern) but, by implication, specifically against the soviet union. -
Japan Invades China
Japan had not planned to declare war on china, they originally wanted china's resources. chaing kai-shek shifted his forces from the communists to the japanese after they kept moving southward from manchuko. -
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Start of World War 2 in the Pacific
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Munich aggreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France signed the Munich agreement which forced the Czechoslovak Republic to relingquish the Sudetenland, which included the key Czechoslovak military defense positions to Nazi Germany. -
Nazi- Communist non-aggression aggreement
Germany and the soviet union signed a non-aggression aggreement in which the 2 countries promised not to attack each other. to offer the pact, hitler offered stalin complete control over poland and the baltic states. -
Germany invades Poland
The nazi-soviet aggreement gave germany free will to attack poland. this schocked the world, but hitler said, he had poland right where he wanted her. the Germans invaded Poland and 2 days later, France and Great britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War 2. -
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Official start and end of WW2
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Battle of Britian
hitler realized that to gain the upperhand, was to take control of the air. he set the LUFTWAFFE to bomb british air and naval bases, harbors, communication centers, and war industries. in sep., hitler began bombing british cities to destroy british moral. ended in defeat. -
Triparte Pact
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. It was a defensive military alliance that was eventually joined by Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, as well as by the German client state of Slovakia. -
German invasion of Soviet Union
Nazi Germany and the rest of the Axis invade the Soviet Union. Finland, seeked redress for the territorial losses in the armistice concluding the Winter War, joined the Axis just before the invasion. The Germans quickly overran the Baltic States and, joined by the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad by September. In the center, the Germans capture Smolensk in early August and drive on Moscow by October. In the south, German and Romanian troops capture Kiev in Sep -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor video
The attack on Pearl Harbor was on December 7 1941 by japan on the U.S, naval base to bring the U.S. into the war. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Japan's victory was short lived for now the United States had entered the war -
War declared on Japan and Germany
after the bombing of pearl harbor by japan. the us declared war on japan and germany. -
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