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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of the Nazis
Hitler took over the role of chancellor -
Hitlers violatesthe Treaty of Versailles
violate the Treaty by introducing military conscription -
Mussolinis forces
Mussolini italian forces take Ehiopia. He does this as a revenge for when they had lost. -
German-Soviet Non aggression pact
Germany and the Soviets agreed not to attack one another and live on peaceful and neighborly terms, they also agreed to delimitate the spheres of intrest, germany would get part of poland USSR would get part of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania -
declaring war!!
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany. -
united states= nuetral (for now)
United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland. -
britain
rationing begins in Britain, supporting troops/ -
Battle of Britain
Germanys main target in London was to weaken England and hit their industry, in this battle the British brough out a new
technology which was the radar. This was Germanys first defeat, it showed the world that England wasn't going to give in. -
Lightning war
the new nonaggression pact removed the threat to Germany of a Soviet attack from the east. Hitlers plans moved to conquer Poland. with 1.5 million soldiers from Germany Polands capitol was bombed and the city was destroted. -
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii woke to the Japanese attacking them, they sunk or severly damaged 18 american ships killing 2400 men and wounding 1000. This attack is what brought the U.S into WWII -
Midway
Japanese had planned to capture Midwar to use as an advance base, as wall as to entrap and destroy the U.S pacific fleet. The U.S fleet ended up suprising the Japanese forces and won/ -
El Alamein
Known as one of the decisive victories of WWII. This battle led to an Allied victory and the retreat of the Afrika Korps and Germans surrendered in North Africa in May of 1943. -
Guadalcanal
U.S marines landed on august 7th and faught a brutally hard air/sea/land campaign against the Japanese for the island Guadalcanal. Lasted 6 months. -
Stalingrad
Was a major battle of WWII in which Germany faught for control over Stalingrad. The Germans suffered heavy loses during this battle, 90,000 Germans surrenderd to the soviets. -
Invasion of Italy
180,000 soldiers landed on Sicily and captured it. Mussolini was fired and arrested and later killed. -
D-Day
as thousands of planes, ships, tanks, landing draft and 3.5 million troops awaited orders to attack, Dwight Eisenhower, planned to strike Normandy, Operation Overload, the invasion of Normandy was the greatest land and sea attack in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
Soviet army was advancing toward Germany from the east, Hitler faced war on two fronts. Allies pushed Germany back and won and Germany lost many men/ -
Iwo Jima
Short battle, but the Japanese faught fiercly because they knew what would happen if they lost. Americans also faugh hard/ -
Germany Surrenders
With 3 million allied solider, and 6 million soviet solider clossing in on Germany, Hitler wrote a letter blamming Jews for the war and his generals for loosing it, he later shot himself and his wife drank poison. After this Germany gave an unconditional surrender to the WWII allies. -
Hiroshima
a b-29 bomber flew over Hiroshima to drop a bomb nicknamed little boy. This was a nucleur bomb and killed 140,000 people due to the radiation many people got cancer and passed down birth deffects and blood diseases and burns. -
Nagasaki
dropped a bomg nicknamed Fat man, and was made with plutonium. This bomb killed possibly 70,000 people, it was a nucluer bomb and hade the same effects as hiroshima. -
Battle of the Pacific
Japanese used Kamikaze. June 22nd, the bloodliest battle of the war ended, Japanese lost 110,000 troops the Americans lost 12,500 -
Japan surrenders
japan surrended and it is known as V-J day. World War II is now over. -
U.N
untied nations is born. gives allies a permanent say -
Nuremberg Trail
The Nuremberg Trial was conducted by a joint United States-British-French-Soviet military tribunal, with each nation supplying two judges. The four counts in the indictment were: Count 1 - CONSPIRACY to commit crimes alleged in the next three counts.
Count 2 - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE including planning, preparing, starting, or waging aggressive war.
Count 3 - WAR CRIMES including violations of laws or customs of war.
Count 4 - CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY including murder, extermination, enslavement,
