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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty that ended world war I. was signed by Germany and the allied nations the terms of the treaty required that Germany was not allowed to build up an army agian. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler got power after the enabling act. -
Hitlers Olympics
Germany used the 1936 Olympics for propaganda purposes. They used the event to promote a newer and stronger Germany. In doing so they masked their growing militarism and Jewish targeting. -
German invasion of Poland
1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Battle of Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. During the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940, some 338,000 British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk to England as German forces closed in on them. -
Tripartite pact signed
series of agreements between Germany, Japan, and Italy.
the purpose was to create a defense alliance between these countries and to insure the US did not enter the conflict. -
Nazis establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
In 1941, the Nazis established chambers at Auschwitz, The operational use of the gas chambers in Auschwitz was preceded by experiments intended to find the most effective chemical agent and to work out the proper method for its use -
Pearl Haber
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
The Internment Camps were established By Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1942-1945. It is considered one of the greatest civil violations, and it followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Franklin Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, which deemed that all people that were considered a national threat, would be sent to the internment camps and this was more often than not, Japanese Americans. -
Rosie The Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women. -
Axis powers surrender (Germany, Japan and Italy)
7 days after Hitler committed suicide, nazi Germany surrounded Japan on September 2, 1945, and Italy surrounding almost two years prior on September 8, 1943, after all the countries surrounded was quickly came to close -
Iwo Jima
A battle where Us marines Involved Iwo Jima after months of naval and air bombarding. -
Atomic bombs dropped in Japan
An American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.