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Invasion of Manchuria
they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. He promised to help the economy of Germany and to build up their military. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
Italy invades Ethiopia, one of the only independent nations in Africa, in 1935 and officially adds Ethiopia to the "Italian Empire" in 1936. -
Munich Conference
The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia -
Kristallnacht
The night when German Nazis attacked Jewish people and property. The word Kristallnacht was leaving broken glass on the streets. -
Non-Aggression Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union signed what was called the Non-Aggression Pact which meant that there could be no fighting between those two countries for the next 10 years -
Invasion of Poland
To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people.Many polish jews later died in the holocaust. -
Invasion of France
n the six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. -
Battle of Britain
which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
Pearl Harbor
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 in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. -
Stalingrad
It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies. -
Normandy Invasion
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944. The invaders were able to establish a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord after a successful "D-Day," the first day of the invasion -
Atomic bombings of Japan
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
V-E day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or V-E Day, was celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
V-J day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
