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World War 2 by Cristian Garcia
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Japan Attacks Manchuria
Japn Launched an attack no manchuria on September 18, 1931. Within a few days japanese armed forces had occupies several strategic points in South Manchuria. -
Hitler comes to power
In the early 1930s, Germany was grim. Hitler was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change. In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor, the head of the German government, and many Germans believed that they had found a savior for their nation. -
Italy conquers Ethiopia
Italo-Ethiopian War was an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia's subjection to Italian rule. Italy had tried to conquer Ethiopia befor but to no success in the 1890's. The Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. The war, by giving substance to Italian imperialist claims, contributed to international tensions between the fascist states and the Western democracies. -
Spanish Cival War
The Spanish Cival War was a military revoly against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. A bloody civil war too place after an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country. -
Munich conferance
In 1938 russia, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy met in Munich to decide what actions to take concerning Germany's aggression in Czechoslovakia. This conferance came to be known as the Munich Conferance. While there, the allies decided to enact a policy of appeasement, wherein they would allow Germany to erase the boundaries of the Versailles Treaty without taking military action. However, it was also agreed that the sovereignty of Poland would be protected. -
Hitler takes over sudentenland
After the first World War, Sundentland bacame part of Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler signed the Munich Agreement eith some other leaders. The German Army marched into the Sundetenland on October 1st, 1938 -
Fall of France
As June began, the situation was bleak for the allies. With the evacuation of the BEF thhe French army and the British army was left to defend a large Channel of sedan with little forces and little renforces. On June 25th, the French army surrendered, while the Germans requirering them to sign a treaty known as compiegne. Then a pro-German state was formed in the leadership of Marshall Phillipe Petain. -
Battle of Britain
The batlle of Britain was the German air force's attemp to gain superiority over RAF from July to September, 1940. The ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War Two and prevented Germany from invading Britain. -
Germany invades USSR
In June 1941, the largest invasion took place when over 3 million German troops invaded the USSR. For the most part Germany invaded the USSR in mostly three seperate occasions. Soon after the Germans retreated for somes reasons like alot of their German troops were wiped off. -
Hitler begins Final Solution
Hitler first explained and thought about his "Final Solution" since 1919. Hitler thought the Aryan race was better than any other race there was. he wanted to keep racial purity so he wanted to get rid of all the Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the mentally ill, and the disabled people. In other words Hitler wanted to get rid of all the people that he thought was a threat to the aryans and that weren't perfect in his view. -
Atlantic charter signed
The Atlantic Charter is one of the key documents of the 20th century and remains still relevant today. President Roosevelt and Primeminister Churchill meet abord the Prince of Wales on August 9-13, 1941 at Placentia Beach. The two leaders, the most important men of the 20th century, agreed to a simple, but elegant eight-point statemennt of their aims which today still stands as the central credo of the Atlantic Alliance. -
Pearl Harbor
Pear Harbor was attacked by the japanese about 60 years ago. Since Pear Harbor was the nearest port to the Japanese that was the first port to be attcked by the Japanes army. The U.S did not have any problems with the japanese but the bombing of pearl harbor led the U.S to join the war against Japan. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midaway, fought over and near the tiy U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Japanese combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier striking forces, which had embarassed the japanese navy in the mid-April Doolittle Raid on Japan's home island and the Battle of Coral sea -
D-day invasion
June 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortifird French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts supported the D-Day invasion. D-Day cost was high, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Yalta conferance
In early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin agreed to meet and discuss war stragedy. The conferance opened Febuary 4, 1945. Once again, Poland was the main debating point. Stalin explained that throughout history Poland had either attacked Russia or had been used as a corridor through which other countries invaded it. -
VE day
On March 7, 1945, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany. German collape came after the meeting on April 25 of the Western and Russian armies after Hitler's death. -
Potsdam Conferance
On July 16, 1945, the "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. In this, the last of the World War 2 heads of state conferances, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and the British prime minister Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe. Future moves in the war against Japan was also covered. The meeting concluded early in the morning on August 2. -
Bombing of Hiroshima + Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War 2, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Then tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki killing about 40,000 people. -
VJ day
VJ day is another way of saying Victory in Japan Day. On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War 2. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan's capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
