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Mao Zedong heads Long March
The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Koumintang The Long March came when the Chinese Communists had to flee a concerted Koumintang attacked that had been ordered by Jiang Jieshi. During the Long March, Mao Zedong stated that he was swimming in the peasants sea. -
Germany invades Poland; France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
After the non aggression act with Stlalin, the two rulers also made a plan. Their plan was to invade Poland. Western Poland for Gernany and Eastern Poland for Russia. One day in 1939, Germany sent in fast moving artillery while a massive amount of men came behind them. The war was called the lighting war because Hitler sent in fast moving trucks and a overwhelmed Poland with their massive army. France and Britain declared war on Germany because they promised to protect Poland's independence. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked -
Germany surrenders
When America and Britain were done liberating Northern Africa and Italy, they attacked Germany from the Western Front. Now Germany had to fight on two fronts. On the West against America and Britain and on the East Russia. Hitler knew he was in trouble and decided to take his army and artillery and put it all in the Western Front. This last attempt for Hitler was called the Battle of the Bulge. This attempt failed and Germany had no choice but to surrender -
Allies use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. warned Japan, but when Japan didn't answer, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II -
United Nations formed
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
