World War II

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
    Hitler become most power leader in Germany. Hitler was born in Austria.
  • Hitler pledges to undo the Treaty Of Versailles

    Hitler pledges to undo the Treaty Of Versailles
    Hitler violates treaty of Versailles ,stopped reperation payment and built a new army. devoloped new weapons.
  • Germany, Italy, Japan form pact known as Axis Powers

    Germany, Italy, Japan form pact known as Axis  Powers
    a group of countries that opposed the allies powers. The Axis power were led by Nazi Germany.
  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia
    Italy Attacked Ethiopia to gain national prestige.
  • Germany annexes Austria.

    Germany annexes Austria.
    Austria -Ansblus =unifocation. Austria was Hitler's home.
  • Germany, italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement. (Appeasement)

    Germany, italy, Great Britain, and France sign the  Munich Agreement. (Appeasement)
    The Appeasement Act was then they would give HItler land he wanted in order to prevent war.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
  • Germany breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of Czech lands.

    Germany breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of Czech lands.
    Hitler breaks the agreement that he sign by invading CZ and this agreement was sign by Frances, Italy , and CZ.
  • Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact, dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

    Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact, dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
    Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Honoring their support of Poland, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

    Honoring their support of Poland, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
    As for Britain’s response, it was initially no more than the dropping of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets 13 tons of them over Germany. They would begin bombing German ships on September 4, suffering significant losses.
  • Soviet Union invades Poland.

    Soviet Union invades Poland.
    As Soviet troops broke into Poland, they unexpectedly met up with German troops who had fought their way that far east in a little more than two weeks. the Soviets to avoid being captured by the Germans.
  • Phony War

    Phony War
    Phony War’ is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened.
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz
    Auschwitz originally was conceived as a concentration camp, to be used as a detention center for the many Polish citizens arrested after Germany annexed the country in 1939.
  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

    Germany invades Denmark and Norway
    German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed
  • France falls and Germany controls Paris

     France falls and Germany controls Paris
    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason.
  • Operation Sea Lion

    Operation Sea Lion
    Operation Sealion was never carried out during the war as the Germans lost the Battle of Britain and it is now believed that Hitler was more interested in the forthcoming attack on Russia as opposed to invading Britain.
  • North African Campaign

     North African Campaign
    The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia.
  • Britain defeats Germany in Operation Sea Lion

    Britain defeats Germany in Operation Sea Lion
    On July 16, Adolf Hitler, in his role as dictator of Germany and supreme commander of its armed forces, issued his Directive
  • Battle of Britain ends

    Battle of Britain ends
    The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population.
  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades the Soviet Union
    On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
    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. when Hawaii was't a state yet.
  • Battle of Midway Ends

     Battle of Midway Ends
    The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. This was important because the battle of midway was a turning point in the pacific war.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal
    The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of 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 Southern Russia
  • D-Day

     D-Day
    In the months and weeks before D-Day, the Allies carried out a massive deception operation intended to make the Germans think the main invasion target was Pas-de-Calais,the narrowest point between Britain and France rather than Normandy.
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders
    Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
  • Hiroshima

     Hiroshima
    At the order of President Harry S. Truman during the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima.
  • Nagasaki

     Nagasaki
    Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills. It is synonymous with a key moment during World War II, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945.
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    The surrender of Imperial japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.