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Invasion of Manchuria
Japanese invade Manchuria and set up a puppet state -
Hitler takes power
Hitler is appointed chancellor, and he takes complete control over Germany, his enemies failing to unite against him -
Neutrality Acts
Series of acts designed to keep US out of war -
Spanish Civil War
Conservative nationalists and republicans of Spain have a war, nationalists win -
Japanese Invasion of China
Japanese attempt to invade China, they take over Shanghai but the Chinese government relocates to Chongqing to continue their resistance -
German Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Hitler already had the Sudatenland from Britain and France's appeasement, but later he took over the entire country, to "help the ethnic Germans living in the area" -
Munich Agreement
Britain and France agree to give Hitler the Sudatenland in an attempt to appease his territorial conquests -
Non-Aggression Pact
Hitler and Stalin share Poland and remain neutral to each other -
Invasion of Poland
Germany and the USSR take over Poland, getting Britain and France involved, and starting World War 2 -
Invasion of Denmark/Norway
Germany launches a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway, capturing them both with minimal resistance -
Fall of France
Hitler and Italy take over France, set up a Nazi controlled puppet government -
Battle of Britain
Air and sea battles between Germany and Britain -
Lend-Lease
US lends weapons and vehicles to vital allies -
Atlantic Charter
US and Britain pledge collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviets wipe out the invading Germans, and begin to move towards Germany. Turning point in the war -
Pearl Harbor
US is attacked by Japan, gets us involved in WW2 -
Doolittle's Raid
First American air raid on Japanese soil, provided a boost of morale knowing that we could attack them -
Battle of Midway
Japanese attempted to take the Midway Atoll, but US forces were able to decipher their plans and set up defensive structures. Considered the most important battle of the Pacific war, this was the turning point from which Japan started losing -
Battle of the Atlantic
US manages to outproduce Germany in naval warfare and then sets up secure Allied trade routes -
Operation Torch
Created a second front in North Africa to divert troops from the Soviets -
Italian Campaign
Allies capture Sicily, Mussolini is stripped of power -
D-Day
Paratroopers land begind enemy lines, followed by thousands upon thousands of soldiers attacking the beaches of France -
Liberation of France
French resistance fighters and Allied troops take back Paris from control of the Nazis -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans attempt to stop Allied supply lines, they get pushed back and have to surrender -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Part of US strategy to isolate Japan from the islands it took over, considered one of the largest Naval battles of all time -
Yalta Conference
Wartime meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill -
Iwo Jima
US invasion of the island Iwo Jima, we needed air fields to launch our atomic bombs from. Japanese forces were heavily entrenched, and they never surrendered -
Okinawa
Allied troops take over the island of Okinawa to use as a base to launch air operations on Japan -
Nagasaki
The second of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, convinces them to surrender -
FDR's Death
FDR dies of a stroke, Truman is the new president -
V-E Day
War in Europe is officially over -
Hiroshima
The first of two atomic bombings in Japan in an attempt to make them surrender, first time anyone witnesses such a deadly weapon -
V-J Day
War in the Pacific is officially over -
Nuremburg Trials
The trials in which war criminals were judged
