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The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, and rules with an iron fist. -
The Nanjing Massacre was the mass-scale random murder,,looting and arson committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against the residents of Nanjing, -
A meeting to allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland in exchange for peace in Europe. -
Kristallnacht was a program against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. -
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
The German invasion of poland which led to WWII's start. -
the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France -
Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France. -
German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. -
Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, and President Roosevelt signed it into law. Also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the Selective Training and Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft -
Operation Barbarossa, also known as the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, -
the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Where US and Filipino soldiers were captured and forced to march until they died. -
When japanese aircraft attacked and damaged the US base on Midway. -
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
codenamed Argonaut, this was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
A period of naval and air bombardment forced Japanese defenders of the island to hide in bunkers within volcanic rock. Aprox, 70,000 Us Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers participated in the battle. -
more than 60,000 soldiers and US Marines of the US Tenth Army stormed ashore at Okinawa, in the final island battle before an anticipated invasion of mainland Japan. -
Hitler committed suicide via gunshot due to the inevitable loss of the Nazi party. -
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Aug 6 and Aug 9, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.