World War 2

By Hans Christensen

  • Start of German Revolution

  • Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail

  • Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

  • Germany joins league of nations

  • Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.

  • The Gestapo secret police is established in Germany.

  • All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany.

  • Germany leaves the League of Nations.

  • Without response to its ultimatum, Germany invades Poland, start of World War II.

  • Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • U-2 Incident

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • March on Washington