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Japan Invades Manchuria
This was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually take over all of East Asia. This is one of the causes of World War II. -
The Holocaust
The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Various laws to exclude the Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, were enacted in Germany before the outbreak of World War II in Europe. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia had valuable exports and at the time they were also forming a modern army with the help of several European powers, but was purchased with their own money. -
Spanish Civil War Starts
The war ended with the victory of the conservative Nationalists, the overthrow of the democratic government, and the exile of thousands of left-leaning Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in Southern France. With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
At their zenith in the midst of World War II, the Axis powers ruled empires that dominated large parts of Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, but the war ended with their total defeat and dissolution. -
Camps
Camps were created. -
Britain Signs Pact with Poland
On August 25, two days after the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Polish-British Common Defence Pact was signed. The treaty contained promises of mutual military assistance between the nations in the event either was attacked by another European country. -
Theatre of War
The European Theatre of World War II, also known as the European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe from Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. -
Germany Invades France
In World War II, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War. -
Battle of Britain
he Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Hawaii. It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
Imprisonment of Japanese in America
Over 127,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States were forced into interment. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
The Battle of Midway
The battle, which took place June 4 to 7, 1942, changed the course of the war in the Pacific and highlighted naval aviation’s vast capabilities. This was the first time that the allies were the offense and a great victory for the United States. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. It was also the first naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. -
Battle of Normandy
6 June – 25 August 1944, "Operation Overlord" was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by allied forces. -
Surrender of Japan
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. -
Victory in Europe Day
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Atomic Bomb
"Fat Man" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. -
United Nations
The United Nations or UN is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. It was a replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the UN was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.
