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Nuremburg Laws
Antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Munich Conference
An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland provided he promised not to invade anywhere else. -
Kristallnacht
Kriallnacht was also called "Night of the broken glass" because it is when the Nazis came and ruined everything. -
Okinawa
Allied forces sought to capture an island near Japan to serve as a base for air operations in support of the proposed invasion of the Home Islands. Assessing their options, the Allies decided to land on Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. -
St Louis Affair
The St. Louis arrived in Havana harbor on May 27, but Cuban officials denied entry to all but 28 passengers. -
German Invasion of Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Nomonhan incident on 16 September 1939. -
German invasion of France
Despite Churchill’s acceptance of blame as First Lord of the Admiralty for the Norway debacle, he was summoned to Buckingham Palace and asked to form a government on May 10, 1940. -
Dunkirk
As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. -
Pearl Harbor
island of Oahu, Hawaii. Attacked by the Empire of Japan on sunday december 7th which brought the US to war. -
Wannsee Conference
The purpose of the conference was for Reinhard Heydrich, chief executor of the Final solution to the Jewish question, to discuss Final Solution policies for Jews with administrative leaders. -
Bataan Death March
The 70-mile march from Mariveles (on the tip of Bataan) to San Fernando was a trial that tested a man, broke him, or got him killed. -
Coral Sea
Major battle between the Imperial Japanese and Allied naval aswell as air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Wake Island
Early June. -
Midway
Midway Atholl, a small and solitary archipelago northeast of Hawaii. Yamamoto knew that the US would defend Midway to the bitter end. If the archipelago fell, Hawaii would fall within range of Japanese aircraft, allowing Japan to invade within a matter of weeks. -
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal, from which they could attack supply routes between the US, Australia and New Zealand, it became vital for the Allies to retake the island. -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Invasion of North Africa
On November 8, 1942, the military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa, in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco. -
Sicily Invasion
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis. -
Invasion of Italy
A secret agreement with the new Italian government led by Pietro Badoglio, signed 3 September, would neutralize the Italian forces, leaving only German divisions offering resistance. -
Tarawa
A 76 hour battle between the US and Japan over the island of Betio in the Tarawa . -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. -
Fall of Rome
600 aircraft were lost and 60,000 tons of bombs were dropped in the 78 days prior to Rome's capture. -
D-Day
As more than 1,000 British bombers began to pummel Normandy’s coastal defences, Rommel, commanding German defences in France, was in Germany celebrating his wife’s birthday. -
Philippines
Invaded by the Empire of Japan in December 1941 shortly after Japan's declaration of war upon the US. Japan took total control in 1944 -
Battle of the Buldge
The Battle of the Buldge was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II. -
Iwo Jima
Major battle that the US armed forces tried to take over the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Death Camps
There were many different types of death camps. They were mostly to starve people, work them and kill them. -
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
On this day, U.S. warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours. -
Death of FDR
A dominant leader of the Democratic Party and the only American president elected to more than two terms, he built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century. -
VE Day
The Victory in Europe day was when the WWII allies surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
In some older documents it is also referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK -
Trinity Test
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. -
Nagasaki
In the early morning hours of Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber took off from the island of Tinian in the South Pacific and headed toward Japan. -
Hiroshima
It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. -
Enola Gay
It was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. -
VJ Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea.
