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The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the immediate outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi Germany. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union agree to take no military action against each other for 10 years. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany. Germany signed pact to invade Poland unopposed. Fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Start of the War in Atlantic/European theatre
Germany invades France, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Denmark and Norway. Succeeding in all countries except for Britain. -
Miracle of Dunkirk
The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. Large numbers of British, French, Belgian, and Canadian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France. -
Battle of Britain
Started on July 10th and ended October 31st 1940. France has surrendered to Germany, Britain was left to fight Germany -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Driven by a desire to conquer the Western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war-effort, to seize the oil reserves in the Caucasus and the agricultural resources. -
Attack on Pearl Harbour
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died another 1,000 wounded. The day after the assault, America declares war on Japan. Three days later, Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. America had finally joined World War II. -
Final Solution
The Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people. The genocide of the Jewish peoples was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. -
Battle of Midway
America defeats Japan in naval battle. Because of major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to inflict permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Four million German troops invaded Russia. After few months they retreated. Next year, Germany invades and after 3 long years of fighting the Russian's won, costing millions of casualties -
D-Day
Resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch on the well defended coast of Normandy. One of the largest amphibious military assaults in history -
V-E Day
The formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
United States drops nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima The United States had dropped the bomb with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
United States drops nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The United States had dropped the bomb with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement -
V-J Day
Japan surrenderes unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
