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Ends WW1; limits Germany's power, and makes them pay for WW1 -
Hitler came second in the election but staged an attack on the parliament building and lied to get into power. -
The Berlin Olympics had been awarded to Germany before the Nazis came to power, but in August 1936 they provided a perfect opportunity for the Nazis to showcase Hitler's Third Reich to the 49 nations of the world competing for Olympic gold.
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital.
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The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought largely over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940.
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The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Because of the attack of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Nazis killed millions of people in gas vans or in stationary gas chambers. The victims were people with disabilities and later Jews and other prisoners. The vast majority of those killed by gassing were Jews. -
On September 8, 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. -
The Battle: U.S. Marines invaded Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, after months of naval and air bombardment. -
The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining Nazi German armed forces to the Allies, and ended World War II in Europe -
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close.