World War II

Fascist Party

Nov 9, 1921

Benito Mussolini Founds the Fascist Party.

Mein Kampf is released

Jul 18, 1925

Hitler's book that stressed race superiority over the Jews and many other races.

Hitler Comes to Power

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.

Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

Extermination of all Jews and other races in Nazi Germany.

Invasion of Ethiopia

Mar 28, 1935

Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia.

Anschluss

Mar 12, 1938

Hitler's Third Reich annexes Austria.

Munich Conference

Sep 30, 1938

European leaders appease Hitler and give him the Sudetenland.

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

German soldiers went around destroying Jewish storefronts and businesses.

Nonaggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Germany gets a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.

Germnay Invades!

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland and thus starts World War II

Battle of Britain

Jun 17, 1940

France is defeated by Germany and forced to sign an Armistice. This leaves Britain all on their own.

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs a whole fleet in Hawaii where 20 ships, 200 planees, and 2400 soldiers dead. The USS Arizona was sunk which was a huge carrier.

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

The forcible transfer up the Bataan Peninsula of 80,000 Allied POWS.

Battle of the Coral Sea

May 4, 1942

Japan invades New Guinea but is stopped by the U.S.

Invasion of Italy

Sep 3, 1943

U.S. invades Itlay and fight our way up the "boot".

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

The U.S., British, and Canadian forces storm the beaches of Normandy.

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

Last German offensive.

Victory in Europe

May 8, 1945

The war in Europe ends in Victory

Victory in Japan

Sep 2, 1945

Japan surrenders on the USS Missouri.

Nuremburg Trials

Nov 20, 1945

Germany officials are tried for war crimes.