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World War II

  • Rhineland

    Rhineland
    In 1936, Hitler violated a treaty by sending German troops into the Rhineland. As an excuse, Hitler claimed that a recent French military agreement with the Soviet Union threatened Germany.
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    Hitler took action to gain control of neighboring Austria. The Anschluss was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Start of World War II

    Start of World War II
  • War on Germany

    War on Germany
    Britian and France declare war on Germany
  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk
    Germany trapped hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers at the French port of Dunkirk. Allied ships and hundreds of civvilian boats plucked nearly 340,000 troops from the coast and carried them to Great Britain.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in America. The attack lasted barely two hours. By the time it was over, however, the Pacific Fleet was tangled mass of smoking metal. The destruction was enormous. All eight battleships in the harbor suffered damage. Four were sunk. Nearly 200 aircraft were completeky destroyed, and more were damaged. Some 2,400 Americans were dead, Japan lost only a handful of submarines and fewer than 30 aircraft. It was a complete defeat for the United States.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Major turning point in war, D-day happened in Normandy, France. 150,000 allied troops were carried across the English Channel. They were led by Omar Bradley
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin met to plan for postwas peace.Stalin promised to hold elections in Eastern European countries after the war.
  • FDR Passes Away

    FDR Passes Away
    FDR passes away while still in office, vice president Harry Truman takes over
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    Marked the formal end of the war in Europe.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    Formal end of the war in Europe.
  • Atomic Bomb Dropped

    Atomic Bomb Dropped
    Hiroshima, 80,000 killed
  • Soviets join war against Japan

    Soviets join war against Japan
  • Dropping of second Atomic Bom

    Dropping of second Atomic Bom
    Nagasaki, 40,000 killed
  • Emperor Hirohito surrenders

    Emperor Hirohito surrenders
    Emeror Hitohito surrenders over radio
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    Japan surrenders on the USS Missouri.