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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Japan needed raw materials to grow its industries, so it invaded Manchuria -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hindenburg appoints Hitler the chancellor of Germany -
Nanking Massacre
Was the mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China -
Munich Conference
Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany -
Kristallnacht
A program against Jews made by the nazi party’s Sturmabteilung. Many Jewish homes and shops were destroyed -
Non-Aggression Pact is signed
Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The countries agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them. -
Germany's invasion of Poland/Blitzkrieg
Hitler's Polish campaign went into a blitzkrieg where SS troops, police squads, and the army itself started an ethnic war of brutality -
Fall of Paris
Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France. Eight days later, France signed an armistice with the Germans, and the French state was set up with its capital. -
Dunkirk
The evacuation from Dunkirk involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk -
The Blitz
German bombers attacked London, leaving 430 dead and 1,600 injured. London was then bombed for 57 consecutive nights, and often during the daytime too. -
Selective Training and Service Act is passed
This act required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, decimating the US Pacific Fleet. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan death march was the forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese army of between 60,000 and 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. -
Battle of the Midway
The outnumbered U.S. Pacific fleet was successful in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown to the previously invincible Japanese army. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was a major battle In World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
Over 160,000 Allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France as part of the biggest air, land, and sea invasion ever executed. -
Battle of the Bulge
German soldiers cross a muddy road during the Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, which began December 16, 1944, and ended January 25, 1945 -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies which were the u.s., the British, and the soviet union -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Marines invaded Iwo Jima after months of naval and air bombardment. These Japanese defenders of the island were dug into bunkers deep within volcanic rocks -
Battle of Okinawa
Was a major battle of the pacific war fought on the island of Okinawa by united states army and the united states marine corps forced against the imperial Japanese army -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
As Soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days. -
VE Day
On Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day, Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the Allies, including the United States. -
Dropping the Atomic Bombs
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. -
VJ Day
VJ day or also known as a victory over japan day is when the end of WWII was done
