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Rise of the Nazi state.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Treaty proclaimed "peace in our time"
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Promise to not attack each other. Contained a secret protocol that provided partition for Poland and remaining eastern Europe into Soviet or Nazi Germany
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Warsaw was a major center for Jewish life and culture. About 30 percent of the city's total population was Jewish. During Germany's invasion on Poland, Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment thus forcing Warsaw to surrender. German authorities required Warsaw's Jews to identify themselves by wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David.
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Luxembourg is occupied on May 10, the Netherlands surrenders on May 14, and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline
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Fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. Lasted until June 4, 1940.
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Britain defended themselves from air raids by the German air force (Luftwaffe). If the Luftwaffe had won over the RAF (Royal Air Force), Britain would have been under severe land attacks form Germany and their major ports would be taken over. However, the RAF blocked any possibility of invasion on Britain.
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Blitzkrieg (air strikes) against Britain -- London was a target, including other major cities in London
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German forces begin their siege of Leningrad. known as the 900-Day Siege and resulted in the deaths of some one million of the city’s civilians and Red Army defenders.
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets held off the offensive before launching a counterattack.
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Also known as D-Day
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Paris is liberated from the Germans
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US Marine Corps captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army
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Known as V-E Day. Nazi Germnay's surrender of its armed forces
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American Bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Immediately 80,000 people died and tens of thousands of people would later die from effects of radiation.
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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima America dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Killed about 40,000 people. Both bombs forced Emperor Hirohito to surrender from WWII
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Known as V-J Day. Took place aboard the U.S.S Missouri.
