-
Period: to
WORLD WAR II
-
Japan attacks Manchuria
Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria. -
Hitler comes to power
Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed Chancellor of Germany, stood in a government building at an open window watching a torchlight parade of 25,000 Nazi -
Italy conquers Ethiopia
An armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia’s conquest to Italian rule. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. -
Spanish Cival War starts
The Republican forces had put down the uprising in other areas, except for some of the larger Andalusian cities, including Seville, Granada, and Córdoba. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the .The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations -
Hitler takes over Sudetenland
Munich Conference determines that the Sudetenland belongs to Germany -
Spanish Civil War ends
The victorious Nationalists entered the final Republican stronghold of Madrid and received the unconditional surrender of the conquered Republican army in Madrid. -
Battle of Britain
The defensive victory won in 1940 dashed German hopes of a swift end to the war in western Europe and ensured that Britain remained a free and independent state able to carry on the war. Victory was eventually won in partnership with more powerful allies, -
Fall of France
when the nazis invated france -
HITLER BEGINS FINAL SOLUTION
was believed to answer the “Jewish Question” and create an end to the Jews. Hitler believed his race was pure, which was the Aryan race. Wanting to protect racial purity, he then thought about getting rid of all Jews throughout Europe, along with other races he believed to be sub-human, including Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the mentally ill and disabled people. -
GERMANY INVADES USSR
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union -
ATLANTIC CHARTER SIGNED
The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. -
Pearl Harbor
the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters -
BATTLR OF MIDWAY
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought to draw the US Pacific Fleet into a battle where he could overwhelm and destroy it. To accomplish this he planned an invasion of Midway Island which would provide a base for attacking Hawaii -
D-DAY INVATION
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France -
VE-DAY
European victory was achieved through the immense Operation Overlord, beginning with the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The heroic landing included 160,000 troops supported by 12,000 aircraft and 7,000 ships and vessels -
YALTA CONFERENCE
During this conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's postwar reorganization. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. -
BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA
Hiroshima was the primary target of the first nuclear bombing mission. The release at 08:15 (Hiroshima time) went as planned, and the gravity bomb known as "Little Boy", a gun-type fission weapon with 60 kilograms (130 lb) of uranium-235, took 43 seconds to fall from the aircraft flying at 31,060 feet (9,470 m)[29] to the predetermined detonation height about 1,900 feet (580 m) above the city. The Enola Gay had traveled 11.5 miles away before it felt the shock waves from the blast -
POTSDAM CONFERENCE
The Potsdam Conference is considered to be the last of World War Two's conferences.America was represented by Harry Truman, the Soviet Union still by Stalin and Britain, first by Winston Churchill and then by Clement Atlee, who defeated Churchill in the post-war British election which took place during the actual conference. -
BOMBING OF NAGASAKI
The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. -
VJ-DAY
Victory over Japan Day:the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II
