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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of this treaty was that Germany could not become a superpower again which resulted in Germany getting very angry because of their weak government and economy. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
After several negotiations with the current leader of Germany and Hindenburg Hitler was appointed as Germany's new chancellor. Even though he only had 30% of the vote, Hitler convinced Hindenburg to give him absolute power by burning Reichstag and blaming it on the enemy to say that he can't protect Germany unless he has more power. -
"Hitler's Olympics"
The International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose to power. At first Hitler had no intrest in hosting the games, but Joseph Goebbels convinced him that they could advance the Nazi cause and showcase the German "master race." -
German invasion of Poland
Hitler was mad that Germany didn't win WW1. He thought that the only way that Germany could be the master race was by getting more living space in Poland who he thought was the "unreal creation of the Treaty of Versailles." He got out of his peace treaty with Poland and signed a treaty with the Soviet Union saying that they couldn't help France and Britin in a war with Poland. This battle marked the start of WW2. -
Nazi's establish gas chambers at Aushwitz
When concentration camps began, Hitler picked out anybody that he thought wasn't fit to work and put them in gas chambers to kill them so he wouldn't have to provide supplies for them. -
Battle of Britain
Adolf Hitler tried to force Britain to surrender by launching an air force attack on Britain. Hitler ended up pulling his troops out of combat in the fall of 1940 because his attack failed. The Battle of Britain was important because it kept Nazi's focused on Britain, gave a big reason for Britain wanting the war to end, and demonstrated that the Nazis were not invincible. By denying the Germans the ability to invade, the British were able to keep the war in mainland Europe. -
Tipartile pact signed
Alliance of the Avis Powers. Germany, Italy, Japan. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for several major reasons. First, they intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and enabling Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference. In other words, they wanted the US to stay out of World War 2. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
Following the Pearl Harbor attack, a wave of anti-Japanese suspicion and fear led the Roosevelt administration to adopt a drastic policy toward Japanese Americans. Almost all Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and live in camps for most of the war. -
Axis powers surrender in Italy
The invasion of Sicily in July 1943 led to the collapse of the Fascist Italian regime and the fall of Mussolini, who was deposed and arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III on 25 July. The new government signed an alliance with the Allies on 8 September 1943. -
D-Day
On June 6th, 1944 Allied troops invaded Normandy, France on five separate beach heads, Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword. At first Germany easily picked off the Allies with guns and obstacles on the beach, but after a month and a half of fighting the Allies came out victorious. It led to the liberation of France, denying Germany any further exploitation of that country's economic and manpower resources. -
Iwo Jima
US Marines invaded Iwo Jima for the purpose of capturing the Japanese island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field. The Japanese built extensive underground bunkers and being the people they are, they did not want to surrender and it became a very bloody battle with an American victory. -
Axis powers of Germany surrender
At the end of the war Germany didn't have the supplies needed to continue the war so they surrendered. The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed on the morning of May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force at Reims in northeastern France. -
Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed between 129,000 and 226,000 civilians in order to force Japan to surrender. -
Axis powers surrender in Japan
After the atomic bombing, Japan saw an urgent need to end the war. The surrender was signed by the Japanese envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and Gen on September 2, 1945.