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Hitler Rises To Power
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. He was born in Austria and served in WWI. He was the head of the Nazi party. -
Undo Treaty of Versailles
March 3rd 1935 Hitler vowed to undo the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler disliked the Treaty of Versailles because Britain and France didn't want to go war. -
Axis powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as the Axis powers. Their goal was to be the center of the world. After Hitler conquered France, and Britain he wanted to invade the Axis powers next. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Italy invaded Ethiopia October 6th 1936. The only weapons Ethiopia had to defend themselves were swords, and spears. Italy carried much more stronger weapons such as guns, tanks, poison gas, and airplanes. It wasn't a very fair fight. -
Germany annexes Austria
Germany troops went to Austria to annex the German nation for third Reich. -
Appeasement
Germany Italy Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement. The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Germany's Nazi's to invade Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht also known as the night of broken glass, this was night the Nazis killed many jews and destroyed many jew property. -
Broken Agreement
Germany broke the Munich agreement and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia and some of its islands. -
Signing And Dividing
Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi Soviet pact and divide Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. -
Poland invaded
Germany invaded Poland because Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, WWII began after this invasion. -
Honoring Support
Great Britain and France supported Poland after they got invaded. After the invasion Great Britain and France declared war against Germany. -
Poland Gets Invaded Again
Poland gets invaded by the Soviet Union, Poland was already in the state of war with Nazi. -
Phony War
France and Britain declared war against Germany, this war lasted for eight months. -
Auschwitz
Rudolf Hoess was commander of Auschwitz. Has eight gas chambers and forty six crematorium ovens able to dispose 4,400 bodies a day -
Germany Invades
Hitler attempted to justify the invasion of of Denmark and Norway, he said he was protecting their freedom and independance because Russia was invading other countries. -
France Falls and Germany Controls Paris
Germans defeat France in six weeks. Germany controlled Paris, German tanks rolled into Paris about two million parisians had already fled with a good reason. -
Operation Sea Lion
Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain. -
North African Campaign
North African Campaign was fighting for Suez canal and Mediterranean Sea. The battles were fought in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunsania -
Britain defeats Germany
Britain defeated Germany in Operation Sea Lion, Hitler abandoned Operation Sea Lion -
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain ended 1,547 allied aircraft were lost during the Battle of Britain. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was code name for Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor because the U.S stopped sharing their resources with Japan. There were 2,335 people killed in this attack. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway turned the tide of war in the Pacific from Japan to the U.S -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Allies wanted to capture Guadalcanal in the Solomon island where the Japanese were building an airfield. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union. The reason they fought was to take control of Stalingrad. -
D-Day
D-Day was when about 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along the coast of France. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany surrendered because they knew that they wouldn't have be able to win the next battle without Hitler, Hitler committed suicide. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima was where the first atomic bomb was dropped. President Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb, it was dropped to inform Japan that the U.S was coming for them, either to chose to surrender or go to war. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki was struck by the atomic bomb, Nagasaki is a city in Japan. Many innocent people were killed in this attack this could have been prevented if Japan had surrendered, and had not attacked Pearl Harbor. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan finally surrendered after both bombs were dropped they finally realized that they couldn't overpower the U.S or the atomic bomb.