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Japan needed raw materials to grow its industries, so it invaded Manchuria -
Hindenburg appoints Hitler the chancellor of Germany -
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 -
Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany -
A program against Jews made by the nazi party’s Sturmabteilung. Many Jewish homes and shops were destroyed -
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. -
Hitler's Polish campaign went into a blitzkrieg where SS troops, police squads, and the army itself started an ethnic war of brutality -
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. -
The evacuation from Dunkirk involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk -
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. -
This act required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. -
Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Over 160,000 Allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France as part of the biggest air, land, and sea invasion ever executed. -
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 -
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies which were the u.s., the British, and the soviet union -
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 -
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 -
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. -
On Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day, Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the Allies, including the United States.
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The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. -
VJ day or also known as a victory over japan day is when the end of WWII was done
