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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. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler required the vote of the Centre Party and Conservatives in the Reichstag to obtain the powers he desired -
Hiters Olympics
The Berlin Games were only a partial success for the Nazis. Germany finished top of the medal table ahead of their main rivals, the United States, but the Americans dominated the Athletics events with African American Jesse Owens winning four gold medals ahead of his blond, Aryan rivals. -
World war 2
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis -
Nazis establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
After the train, the Nazis would take the unfit people to the gas chamber and tell them that they are taking a shower but would actually just kill them. -
Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Tripartite pact signed
Defense alliance treaty with Germany, Italy and Japan -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor attack surprised aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii -
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Axis powers surrendered
The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France -
D day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps -
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.