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Victory In Europe Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Invasion Of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Hitler Came to Power
After months of negotiations, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, will appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany in a government seemingly dominated by conservatives on January 30, 1933. -
Invasion Of Poland
The invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War 2. -
Beginning of World War 2
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A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 -
Neutrality Act of 1939
Act that passed laws in order to prevent people from selling guns and war goods to other countries outside the United States. 01 -
Battle of France
The German invasion of France and lower countries during WW2. -
Surrender of France
Germany invaded Poland and then kept going trying to invade other parts of Europe. France declared war on Germany and eventually surrendered to them. -
Aldertag (Eagle Day)
The beginning of the Battle of Britain. -
The Beginning of the Holocaust
The intentional systematic annihilation of six million Jews and 'undesirables' by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. -
Pearl Harbor
An attack in Hawaii against an American Naval fleet that was stationed there. This attack was made by the Japanese and in the end brought the United States into the war. -
Japan Attacked
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Bataan Death March
approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a terrible 65-mile march to prison camps. -
The Battle of Midway Island
World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
A Weather Delay
Eisenhower selected June 5, 1944, as the date for the invasion; however, bad weather on the days leading up to the operation caused it to be delayed for 24 hours. On the morning of June 5, after his meteorologist predicted improved conditions for the following day, Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord. -
The Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.Oct 29, 2009 -
The Fall of Hitler
He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. The allies were invading and he thought it would be better to kill himself rather than be captured. -
The End of the Holocaust
A genocide in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945, during World War II. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender -
End of World War 2
Day the Japanese delegation formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II. 2,194 -- Days between the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, through September 2, 1945, when Japan signs the unconditional surrender.
