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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria and it ended with a "dramatic walk-out" of representitives in Japan. It happened in Japan's hope to gain more natural resourses. The attack later led to the attack on pearl harbor. -
Hitler takes power
In January 1933 Hitler was offered the job of vice chancellor but refused and demanded to be chancellor. Hindenburg and Papen agreed in an attept to get natzis on their side. Workers turned to communism but weathly buissness men were frightened by this so they turned to finance hitler. In the end America's stock market collapsed sending it and the rest of the world into a global depression. -
The Holocaust
Hitler anti-sematic views gained poulartity across Germany. To him the jewish were a threat to the purity of the German race and must be eliminated. Since he bacame Chancellor all of the events leading up to Hitlers Final Solution the mass mudering of inferior races by Hitler and the German army begun under the cover of the war. -
Mussolini invades Ethiopia
Mussolini invaded ethiopia and included his "new Italian Empire". Mussoilini, who was impacted by hitler, began a anti-Jewish legislation.Mussolini had ideas for a "new Italian Empire"Mussolini was captured and shot by Italian partisians on April 28th, 1945 -
US Neutrality Acts
Aware the war was imminent, the U.S. congress passed the Neutrality Act in hopes that it would steer the nation away from foreign conflicts. They were, as a nation, to remain isolated and selling arms to nations was prohibited -
Germany invades Rhineland
Hitler broke the Tready of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by invading Rhineland.If the French desided to move to stop Germany, sholdiers had orders to retreat.Germany wated to "RE-occupy" Rhineland. Going agaist the Tready of Versailles which declared Rhine demilitarized -
Hitler Annexes Austria
Germany planned to unite all German speaking people under one flag, the German flag. With those plans came the annexation of Austria. Hitlers troops marched directly into Austria and were greeted enthusiasticly by Austrian people. -
The Munich Conference
Mussolini, Hitler, French premier Eduard Daladier, and British prime minister Nevile Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact. The Munich Pact gave up Sudentland to Hitler in hopes to keep peace. Chamberlain thought this would keep Hitler from going after more territory but Churchill perdicted otherwise. -
Germany Invades Sudetenland
Hitler wasnt finished claiming land for his new German empire, he wanted Sudetenland and if he didnt get it there would be hell to pay. In september 1938 representitives from France, Britain, Italy, and Germany met at Munich to discuss this. The Russians nor the Czechs were invited. The meeting ended in Sudetenland being handed over to Germany. -
The Night of Broken Glass
The assassination of a german secretary of the German Embassy by a jewish-polish boy was the only excuse the germans needed to declare all out war on the jews. Jewish business and homes were burned to the ground, Jews were assulted, deported, or aressted. 91 Jews died, folowingthese events several anti-sematic laws were passed. All in hopes of getting rid of Germanys Jewish poulation -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The world was shocked when former enemies Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, promising to not take any millitary action against one another for a decade. This enabled Germany to take Poland without Soviet interfereance. This also took the stress away from fighting a two front war. In a secret part of the pact Hitler and Stalin split Poland between them. -
Germany Invades Poland
Hitler and the Natzi army bombed their way past the border into Poland. This was testing grounds for the strategy of the blitzkreg, or Lightning war. It was a fast paced warfare. Airplanes sore through the sky quickly followed by tanks and waves of infantry. It proved to be successful, After this war France and Britain declared war on Germany. Thus the start of WW2 -
The Phoney War
Great britain and france declared war on germany. WW2 had begun but nothing happened. This early phase was called the Phoney War. It was the lack of military action by eaither the allies or Germany. It ended with Germany marching into Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg -
Fall of France
A plane crash in Belgium gave away Hitlers plan to invade France. He looked towards General Erich von Manstein for a new tactic. He suggested to attack when they least expected it, they would rely mostly on their blitzkreg plan from their sucessful attack on Poland. Their plan overwhelmed France, France fell in a matter of 6 weeks -
Rescue at Dunkirk
British Expenditionary Force and French troops were stranded on Dunkirk beaches and were in desprate need of recuing. The rescue plan was launched immeditally. The plan was announced and not long after everyone was willing to help out, but at the cost of using their personaly owned boats. In this time more than 330,000 troops were rescued -
Battle of Britain
The battle of France had ended and now the battle of britain would soon be underway. The German airforce Luftwaffe was vital for the Briatian invasion. Hitler emphazised that the Luftwaffe must be "beaten down" The luftwaffe attacked British airfeilds and radar bases and later bombed cities themselfes to breakdown morale. Britain did not give in easy and forced German troops back, Hitler then turned his attention to invading the Soviet Union -
US Lend-Lease Program
The U.S. finally was allowing them to transfer arms to foreign nations. This would help Britian fight longer up untill the U.S. joined them in the war against the central powers. -
Yugoslavia and Greece fall
Germany moved along into Yugoslavia and brutally invaded. The invasion resulted in 17,000 civilian deaths, the most in a single day since the war started. Germany also bombed ports the Greece and the ground army swept in from the south and west -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Germany broke the non-aggression pact that they previously signed with the Soviet Union. This took Stalin greatly by suprise. The Soviets outnumbered the Germans by 9 million to 3. Although Stalin didnt have time to prepare his army he would of previously if he had acted on British warning about Germany -
The Final Solution
The method of killing jews proved inefficiant as it was much to slow. Hitler devised a plan and begun construction concentration camps. They would use their recorses to gather jews and send them to these camps where they would work until they were exicuted. -
Atlantic Charter
Plans for the post world the WW2 would leave behind were already discusseed between President Roosevelt and prime minister Winston Churchhill, 26 allied nations pledged their support of the declaration. This was the first step to forming the United Nations -
Pearl Harbor
Japan launched an attack on Pear Harbor located near Honolulu in Hawaii. More than 2,00 Americans died, 1,000 more were injured. The following day the U.s. would join the allies to fight the Axis Powers. -
Bataan Death March
The U.S. surrendured the Baatan Peninsula to Japan. 75,000 Phillipino and American troops defending the island were forced to make a ardeous march 65 miles to the prison camp. The troops marched 6 days, they were treated harshley by the Japanese. Many did not survive the march -
Battle of the Coral Sea
This marked the first modern air-naval battle. There was no fire between ships, rather there were planes launched off of the ships. The planes did the fighting in this battle. The japanese wonbut not without cost. The japanese had to cancel its expedition of Port Moresby, Papua, as well as other South Pacific targets. -
Battle of Midway
After the U.S. successifuly decoded Japanese messagesthey learned about top secret Japanese plans to attack few remaning ships and vessals that the U.S. possesed. The U.S. was able to defeat Japanese, thus giving the U.S. ability to take offense in the war -
battle of stalingrad
The bloidiest but most important battle of WW2. The battle of Stalingrad was a deadly conflict resulting in over 2 million deaths. Germany was closing in on Stalingrad and it was up to the Soviets to hold them back. They did just that, they pushed back the germans a bit more, eventualy forcing them into surrender. This drastically turned the tides for the Allies and the Soviet union would remain on offence -
Battle of Guadalcanal
This battle marked the first offensive and decisive battle of the Allies. The U.S. Marines launched a suprise attack and took control of and airbase that was under construction. Bttles broke out resulting in far greater losses for the Japanese, and forcing them to pull back and retreat -
Operation Torch
This was the first invasion the U.S. and British planned together, they would move through French North Africa and work their way up through Italy then into france. Although Stalin advised otherwise he felt the puressure Germany was bringing and wanted the Allies on them as soon as possible. The Allies would be successful in this operation and french resistiance was minimal so were Allied casualties -
Invasion of Italy
The Allies landed on the island of Sicily on July 10th, 1943 and encountered very little resistance from demorilized Italian troops. The Allies would sweep over the mainland eventualy forcing italian surrender -
Doomsday
The Allies put together a massive force to breach through into France and later Germany. 5,000 ships, 11,000 aircrafts, and over 150,000 troops participated in this historic invasion. 10,000 men went down and 4,000 were killed but yet the invasion succeeded due to its sheer number and willpower. the element of suprise didnt hurt eaither. Germany knew there was an invasion coming they just didnt know when or where. The allies had set up dummy armies to fool the Germans. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitlers last desprate attempt at holding the Allies back. His objective was to split the allied army in two by means of blitzkreg through ardennes. After days of fierce fighting, Hitler agreed to take out his forces from the Adennes, ending all offensive operations.This battle ended in being the costiest battle in american history, resulting in 100,000 americal deaths -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This battle would see the likes of undergroung warefare. The American army would prove successful and prevail over the Japanese in this type of warfare. this battle would be remembered in the hearts of America because it would witness American soilders raising the American flag -
Battle of Okinawa
Being one of the biggest battles in the Pacific campaign. This battle consisted of 287,000 American soilders against 130,000 Japanese troops.The Japanese did not give up easily, as air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan were at stake. This battle would see the likes of kamakizes or suicide pilots. There would be massive bloodshed, but in the end the U.S. prevailed in the last big battle of the Pacific campaign -
Germany Surrenders
After years of fighting, the Germany war machine had finally died. Hitler commited suicide and all of those remained by his side durring the war would face sevire punishment for their crimes on humanity. The war in Europe was over but other matters still remained. Japan was still fighing on -
Bombing of Hiroshima
This day went down in history as the day the first ever atomic bomb was ever used in war. President Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima. Many critized his decision. An american B-29 bomber droped the A-Bomb from far above, killing 80,000 people instantly as well as tens of thousands from radiation posioning. It destroyed 92% of the city. This was the first of two deadly blows for Japan -
Nagasaki: The Final Blow
This was the secong blow from the U.S. inflicted on Japan. It came to nagasaki. Just three days removed the destrustion at Hiroshima. The bomb evscerated and destroyed thousands of homes and killed millions
