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The start of the great depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression and the start varied at different times in different countries.And while that happened the stock market crashed. -
Hitler comes to power as Chancellor
Hitler was a powerful speaker who attracted a wide variety of Germans desperate for change. He promised a better life and a new and glorious Germany. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide in which some millions of European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. Today it is known as one of the most violent events in history. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Italy under the leadership of the Prime Minister Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia. -
Berlin Olympics
Germany hosted the summer Olympics in Berlin. Hitler had ordered a huge propaganda campaign claiming Aryan superiority would win the games for the Nordic countries. Americans wanted to join the olympics. -
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The attack was in Hawaii. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill after the Invasion of Iran. -
D-Day
More than 160,000 troops landed along the stretch of the French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of France -
Plans for Peace and the Atomic Bomb
On the clear morning of August 6, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima -
World war II ended
World War 2 ended with the surrender of the Axis powers.The final battles of the European World War II as well as the German surrender to the Soviet Union.
