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Treaty of Versailles
(Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George) On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France -
Hitler Invades Austria
(Hitler, Germany) German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss. -
Germany Leaves the League of Nations
(Hitler, Germany) The peacekeeping role of the League had been discredited, and following Hitler's accession to power, was further damaged by an increasingly aggressive Germany abandoning the League -
Hitler Appointed Germany Leader
(Hitler, Germany) Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. -
Nuremberg Laws
(Hitler, Nazis) antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party -
Italy Annexes Ethiopia
(Italy, Ethiopia) A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. -
Rome Berlin Axis Treaty
Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. -
Japan Invades China
(Japan, China) The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. -
Hitler Invades Sudentenland
(Hitler, Germany) The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Hitler Invades Poland
(Hitler, Poland) The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
France/Great Britain Declare was on Germany
(France, Great Britain) Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. Two days earlier, on September 1, 1939, Germany had invaded Poland. -
Tripartite Pact
(Germany, Italy, Japan) Tripartite Pact, agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, one year after the start of World War II -
Germany/Japan Pact
(Japan, Germany) Tripartite Pact, agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, one year after the start of World War II -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
(Japan, United States) The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
D - Day
(United States, Canada) The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Germany Surrenders
(Germany) The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal document that effected the extinction of Nazi Germany and ended World War II in Europe. -
V -E Day
(Europe, Germany) Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe -
Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
(United States, Japan) The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
(Japan, United States) The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Japan Surrenders
(Japan) The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. -
V - J Day
(Japan) Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end