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The Final Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi's plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Hitler wrote a book called "My Struggle" that a million of people read and had the purpose of making everyone hate the Jews. The Nazi's believed that their aryan race was superior than the Jews people so they killed millions of them. The genocide of the Jewish people had many stages and progressed through the WWII. -
Hitler invades the Rhineland
The Treaty of Versailles stated that the Rhineland area was to be de-militarised. However, many believed that since the Rhineland was a part of Germany it was reasonable that German troops would station there. This event was one of the first military actions that Hitler did. -
Rape of Nanjing
This was an episode of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing , the capital of the Republic of China. Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants numbering an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000,and perpetrated widespread rape and looting. This event is significant because although more than 70 years have elapsed, Japan, unlike Germany, is still denying what happened in spite of all the evidence. -
Anschluss(annexation) of Austria by Germany
March 1938. Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, however, Germany and Austria were forbidden to be unified. The Austrian leader was forced to hold a vote asking the people whether they wanted to be part of Germany. The results showed that 99% of the Austrian people wanted union with Germany. -
Munich Pact
The agreement stated that Hitler could have the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia provided that he promised not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.Hitler broke his promise and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakian in March, 1939. -
Kristallnacht
This was an event when the Nazis attacked the Jews in Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets, broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence. After Kristallnacht, conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. It has been called the "longest, largest, and most complex" naval battle in history. The armies used U-boats, aircrafts, submarines, and other warships. Canada played a central role in this battle. The battle began on the opening day of the war in September 1939 and ended almost six years later with Germany's surrender in May 1945. -
Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovakia
The Munich Agreement, signed by the leaders of Germany, Britain, France and Italy, agreed that the Sudetenland would be returned to Germany and that he won't invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. However, Hitler is not a man of his word and he invaded the rest of it in March 1939. Neither France nor Britain were ready to take any military actions, therefore they didn't do anything. -
The Battle of Britain
German pilots made many coordinated attack runs and bombing runs in Britain. The British army attacked the Germans very easily because of their radar stations. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler's military forces. -
Dieppe Raid
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. The Germans retreated and Russia won. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler. -
Pearl Harbor
A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. T the Japanese Imperial Navy was of significant importance because it ignited the fury of the United States' entrance into World War II. The following day, December 8, 1945, the United States declared war on Japan. -
Battle of Midway
This was a fight in the Pacific Ocean in the middle of all the lands. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese airforce army went over the Philippines, East Indies, and Southeast Asia. The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War. -
D-day
General Dwight Eisenhower led US and Allied troops in the invasion of Normandy, France. While Russia fought in the East. This was the beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe. The invasion saw the largest amphibious assault in history in an effort to gain a toehold in Nazi-occupied France. It's also the largest seaborne invasion in history. The Germans armed along the entire coastline and they attacked from the top of the cliffs. -
V-E Day
A day where we celebrate the Nazis official surrender from WWII after the Russians had reached Berlin and Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered. -
Hiroshima
President Truman ordered for the U.S. to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The atomic bomb killed thousands on impact and for many many years later it killed citizens because of radiation. These bombs were intended to cause Japan to surrender to the allied forces and to bring about the end of WWII.
