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Events of world war II
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was the twenty-seventh Prime Minister of Italy. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Also known as the pact of Paris, officially General Treay for Renunciation of war as an Instrument of National Policy. this pact was an agreement where signatory states promised not to use war to settle disputes or conflicts. -
Reich Chancellor of Germany
Adolph Hitler was made Chancellor of germany in 1933-1945. -
The Holocaust
This event was also known as the Shoah and was a very horrible event. It is a genocide in which sic million Jews were killed by Nazis regime and its collaborators. -
Fuher of Germany
Adolph Hitler, became the Fuher of Germany in 1934-1945. -
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia
The conquest of Ethiopia, was fought between armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and arned forces of the Ethiopian Empire. this war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia. Lead by Benito Mussolini, Mussolini took Adolf Hitler's plans into consideration to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German. He then followed his policy and invaded Ethiopia. -
Spanish cival war
The Spanish cival war was fought from 1936-1939, this war was between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Francisco Franco led the Nationalists into this war and the result from his leadership, they won the war. -
Rome-Berlin axis formed
Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy that was led by Benito Mussolini, had allied themselves under this nefarious treaty. this pact was signed after both of the countries intervened on the behalf of the fascist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish cival war. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss, also known as the annexing of Austria. This action was conducted by Nazi Germany. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
Nazi Germany along with the Soviets agreed to never attack one another; also it provided that Poland shall be divided between the two powers. that pact stated that they will not be able to invade or attacl one another for ten years; this pact was signed by Hitler and Stalin. -
Poland attacked
Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact, and invaded poland.Britain and France then declared war. Hitler had the advantage of a surprise attack on Poland, so he took that advantage, with German tanks and troops that rumbled across the Polish border. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg, means "Lightning war." the lightning war is a military strategy of fast-moving airplanes, tanks, and massive infantry forces. To take defenders by surpris, this strategy worked in Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain, was the name that was given to the second world war air campaign. This war was waged on between the German Air Force and the United Kingdom. This war was the first war to be fought entirely by air forces, and it also was the largest arial bombing campaign. -
Lend lease act
This act provided the U.S military aid to foreign nations during WWII. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was Chairman of the Council of Ministers. -
Hideki Tojo
Tojo was the Prime Minister of Japan, and the leader of the Imperial rule assistance association. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on the Pearl Harbor was conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy, this attack was directed to the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor; it was a suprise military strike. -
Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway raged on for four days, the battle was located near the small American outpost at Midway Island. At the end of the war the U.S had great losses, but they were victorious. four Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed by the American navy; this action regained control of the central Pacific for the U.S. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought with the Soviet Union for complete control of the city of Stalingrad in the Southern part of Russia, and on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Invasion of Sicily
The invasion of Sicily was codnamed Operation Husky, was a major WWII campaign. The Allies took Sicily from the Axis powers. This war was conducted by large scale amphibious and airborne operation, also followed by six weeks of land combat. -
Battle of Monte cassino
This war was a costly series of four assaults that was fought between the Allies and the Winter Line in in Italy that was held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of WWII. They were trying to breathrough to Rome. -
Battle of anzio
This battle was also known as Frontline of Anzio and Nettuno. The battle was fought between the Allied amphibious landing, also known as the Operation Shingle in the Italian Campaign against and German forces, in the area of Anzino and Nettuno. -
D-day
D-day was the largest invasion force in history. Eisenhower and the millions of troops that he lead stormed the beaches at Normandy, the purpose of this was to retake France. this event was the turning point of World War II. -
Battle of Peleiu
Codename Operation Stalemate II by the U.S, the war was between the U.S and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of WWII. -
Battle of the Bulge
This event was a German offensive campaign, that was launched through densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgiu, France, and Luxembourg. Battle of the Bulge, was a phrase coined by the contemporary press to describe the way that the Allied front line bulged inward on the wartime news maps. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The U.S armed forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial army during WWII. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Allied forces and the Japaneses engaged on another in the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war. The Allied forces tried to invade this island. -
Death of FDR ( Franklin D Roosevelt )
Franklin suffered from increasingly poor health, when he came back from the Yalta conference, he died from a stroke. -
Benito Mussolini's death
Mussolini and his wife, Claretta Petacci, tryed to escape to Switzerland, but they failed. They have been captured by the Italian underground, and were executed on the following day. -
Death of Adolf Hitler
Hitler and his wife Eva commited suicide. Adolf killed himself by gunshot and Eva took Cyanide. -
V-E day
This day was a victorious day for Europe, because it was the day when the Germans surrendered. this day was called V-E day or Victory in Europe Day, this day is when they celebrated the official defeat of the Nazis and the end of WWII in Europe. -
Atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima
A aircraft called Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb called Little boy in Hiroshima, 70,000 Japanese people were instantly vaporized. In the months and years that followed after the bombing, another 100,000 has either perished form sever burns, radiation sickness, and possibly both. America did this so they could end the war between them and also they have learned that the Manhattan Project was a success. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Nagasaki suffered the same fate of Hiroshima, a atomic bomb known as Fat man was dropped on Nagasaki, this bomb was a plutonium implosion-type. -
V-J Day
This day was called, the day allies claimed victory in japan; but with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki early that month, it was not a formal surrender. -
Tojo's death
Tojo was arrested after the war has ended, and was sentenced to deathe for Japanese war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the far east. -
Stalins Death
Stalin suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and he died from this.
