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Black Tuesday
The Great Depression begins, ending the "Roaring Twenties" due to the stock market crash. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
The leader of the violent, nationalistic Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler, is elected as the new Chancellor of Germany. Adolf Hitler soon made Germany a military dictatorship. -
Night of Broken Glass
On this date, Nazi mobs destroyed thousands of synangogues, Jewish businesses, and Jewish homes. The next day almost 30,000 Jewish me were arrested for being Jewish. This marked a moment in time of the beginning of some of the most cruel and violent genocides. -
Germany Invades Poland
In a desire for the expansion of Germany's Empire, Hitler invaded Poland which then made France and Great Britain declare war on Germany -
Germany Takes Over France
On this date, Germany takes over France and has fallen under the Nazi' Party's control. On other dates, Germany was able to also take over Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was where the U.S. Pacific fleet was headquartered. Japan dropped bombs all along Pearl Harbor killing over 2,000 people and destroyed many big naval ships. This then made America declare war on Japan, entering World War II. -
Victory at Midway Island
Japan suffered a great loss from this defeat and it actually helped the Americans form strategies on ways to attack Japan. -
D-Day
General Dwight D. Eisenhour put together a very skillful and smart plan on attacking the Germans. On this date, paratroopers, airplanes, and battleships invaded the preoccupied Normandy, France and after some days of fighting eventually forced the Nazi's out of France and Belgium. -
First Atomic Bomb Dropped
When the Japanes refused to surrender to Russia, Great Britain, and the USA, America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing 80,000 people. After that when Japan still refused to surrender America dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. -
Nuremburg War Crime Trials Begin
This lasted for about a year, it was about 24 Nazi officialswho were tried for war crimes committed during WWII. The trials took place in Nuremburg, Germany.
