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Treaty of Versailles
This document/treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. -
Hitler Voted to Power in Germany
Adolf Hitler came to power through Germany's legal political process. In the July 1932 parliamentary elections, the Nazis won 37 percent of the vote. This was more votes than any other party received -
Hitlers Olympics
The summer Olympics where held in Germany. This gave the Natizs the opportunity to show the world who they where and how much power they had. -
German Invasion Poland
Germany works with Axis (Italy, Japan) and takes over Poland so that it can act as a bridge for them to take over the rest of Europe. -
Nazis establish gas chambers at Aushwitz
Germany needed to find an elective and easy way to kill people quickly. Tested it many times before starting to put them into concentration camps. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
This was an alliance between Italy, Germany and Japan known as the Axes powers -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor when all the other axis surrendered. Japan was trying to outlast all the other countries. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
When America was in he war with Japan, they where scared of any Japanese Americans being spies so like the Nazis. They kept them in camps. -
Axis Surrender (Italy)
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown. The new Italian government surrendered to the Allies. Most of the Italian Army was quickly disarmed by the Germans. -
D-day
D-Day was when the allies came together and tried to take over France from the Axis power. It bought together the army and navy to banned together against the Axis. -
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Prisoners Get Released from Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. British, Canadian, American, and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps. The Americans were responsible for liberating Buchenwald and Dachau, while British forces entered Bergen-Belsen. -
Iwo Jima
To end the war once and for all, the U.S Marines invaded Iwo Jima after months of naval and air bombs, ending the war. -
Axis powers surrender (Germany)
With Hitler dead and no leader the Germans try and keep fighting on but with most concentration camps being taken over by the US they are forced to sign a legal document and surrender. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan
An atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima Japan by the United States. The bomb caused mass destruction and those who didn't die where left in ruins. -
Axis Surrender (Japan)
After many atomic bombs that cause mass destruction. Japan is the final Axis to surrender to the United States. US had a hard time fighting them because they where on a small island.