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Adolf Hitler takes power over Germany
Adolf Hitler was a man starving for power. He built up the armies for Germany, even though he was not allowed to. The other countries let it go because they thought he would stop.
He was the leader of the Nazi party, and beleived in facism. Facism is a form of government in which individual freedoms are denied and the government has complete power. -
Germany invades Poland
World war 2 began when Germany invaded Poland.The morning after the Gleiwitz incident, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. -
France and Britain declare war on Germans
On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. -
World War 2 begins
When world war 2 began America didn't want to have anything to do with it. When Pearl Harbor was attacked they were forced to join the war. -
Germans invade Denmark and Norway
On this day in 1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed. -
Lightning War
In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). -
Italy enters war
When Italy entered the war they were known as one of the axis powers. -
Germans invade Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese forcing America to join the war.The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI[9][10] by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning)[11] and the Battle of Pearl Harbor[12]) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.[5][6][7] Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.[8] Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval w -
Italy surrenders
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D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France -
Battle of the Buldge
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Allied Troops captured Iwo Jima
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President Roosevelt dies
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Germany surrenders
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The US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,Japan
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another atomic bomb is dropped
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Japan Surrenders
