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Adolf Hitler is appointed German chancellor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckka2r5cbxY Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and soon became its leader because of his strong leadership qualities. He dreamed of uniting all German-speaking people in a great German empire. Hitler favored blue-eyed blondes considerably and especially. Adolf Hitler offered economic stability to unempolyed Germans during the Great Depression. -
Hitler invades Austria
Hitler was the leader of the strongest political party in Germany known as the Nazis or the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He reformed German government and gave it the name of the Third Reich or Third German Empire. Hitler declared that inorder to grow and prosper, Germany needed the land of it's neighbors and therefore needed to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. -
Germany invades Poland. Britain and France Declare War
The German military used blizkrieg tactics or lightning war tactics to attack Poland, "both raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities, and also racing tanks across the countryside, spreading terror and confusion." In France, Italy stepped in on Germany's side and 'ganged up' on France to take over the country. In Britain, the naval power of the/that country was much stronger, so Germany had to also use an air war as well, but in the end, Britain was just too strong. -
The Battle of Britain
The end of the Battle of Britain.
As previously mentioned before, Britain's naval power was just too strong for Germany to compete with so Adolf Hitler had to bring in an air force as well. Germany was attempting to gain control, as a goal, and to destroy Britain's Royal Air Force or RAF. The Battle of Britain lasted fthrough the summer and fall of 1940, and eventually ended in Hitler calling "off the invasion of Britain indefinitley." -
United States enters World War II
President Roosevelt declared war on Japan after he got word of the Japanse rejecting all American Peace Proposals. Pearl Harbor was and is considered one of the greatest causes of isolationism. On December 8th, 1941, FDR went to congress who then approved his declaration of war on Japan. Then three days later, the other Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States of America. "Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States mobilized for war." -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan was expanding and taking over countries by picking them off, one by one. "The United States protested this new act of aggression by cutting off trade with Japan. This included the very valuable oil that Japan needed and relied on desperately. At first, Japan wanted to keep the peace with the United States, but then on November 5th, 1941 there was talk of an attack on the United States which the U.S. caught wind of by cracking the Japanese's communication codes. President Roosevelt wanted J -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Ended on May 8th, 1942. In this battle, the main Allied forces in the Pacific, being the Amerians and the Australians, sucessfully stopped and turned back the Japanese drive from or toward Australia. The Battle of the Coral Sea lasted for five days, and was fought using airplanes. -
The Battle of Midway
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific war. Just like in The Battle of The Coral Sea, the Allies once again succeed in defeating the Japanese. The Americans were able to decode and broke the Japanese code, that declared Midway, a strategic island which lies northwest of Hawaii, was their target, they being the Japanese. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The German commander surrendered on this day. They had been there since August of the previous year in 1942. This long and extended battle was fought between the Germans and the Soviets of the Soviet Union. It took place in "Stalingrad, a major industrial center on the Volga River." The Soviets lost a total of 1,100,000 soliders, which was more than the total of all American deaths in the entire war. The Soviets made a move during the very cold and frozen winter, when their army surrounded Germa -
D-Day
This was the first day of the invasion of nearly 3 million British, American, and Canadian troops in the attack on Normandy in northern France. The Allies tricked the Germans by saying in the messages that they knew the Germans could read that they would be ordering an invasion and attacking the French port of Calais, which was and is 150 miles away from the actual target. "The Allied invastion, code-named Operation Overload," was lead by American General and later President Dwight D.Eisenhower. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge ended on January 25th, 1945. This battle lasted for a month or so about. The Germans were hoping to push back and break up the Allies by splitting the American and British forces by driving their tanks into their territory, hoping to recapture the Belgian port of Antwerp. Not much really got done but the Germans ended up losing "120,000 troops, 600 tanks and assult guns, and 1,600 planes in the Battle of the Bulge- soliders and weapons they could not replace. Nazretreat." -
The U.S. bombing of Japan
The United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan on this day. The building of the atomic bomb was led by General Leslie Groves and the research director for th project was done and/or/ American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. There were two atomic bombs. The first atomic bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped over Hiroshima, which ceased to exist. The second atomic bomb was dropped three days later, code-named Fat Man, over Nagasaki, "leveling half the city." Together est. 200,000 deaths.
