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Japan Attacks China
Chinese And Japanese Forces Clashed South Of Beijing And Hostilities Spread. The Japanese Seized The Chinese Capital Of Nanjing In December. Chiang Kai-Shek Refused To Surrender Even Though The Japanese Pushed Onward. Chinese Civilians Experienced Extreme Brutality And Aerial Bombing, The Chinese Were Defeated. -
Hitler Apointed Chancellor
Hitler Becomes Chancellor Of Germany. One Of Two Executive Positions. Chancellor (Kind Of Like The Prime Minister) Was The Head Of The Parliament And Had Power To Appoint Ministers. -
Hitler Drafters 1/2 Million Men
Hitler Pulls Out Of The League Of Nations. Goes From 100,000 Man Army To 1/2 Million. Starting Building More And More Ships Because He Signed A Treaty With The British Allowing This. -
Italy Inavades Ethiopia
One Of Three African Countries Not Controlled By A European Power Prior To 1935. Mussolini Invaded Ethiopia To Restore Glory Of Roman Empire. League Of Nations Took No Actions. -
German Troops Sent To Rhineland
German Troops March Into The Rhineland. Under Versailles German Troops Were Forbidden To Move Within 50 Km Of The Rhine River. Not Even France Stops The German Advance. -
Neutrality Acts
Originally Designed To Avoid American Involvement In World War II By Preventing Loans To Those Countries Taking Part In The Conflict; They Were Later Modified In 1939 To Allow Aid To Great Britain And Other Allied Nations. -
Hitler Annexed Austria
German Annexation Of Austrian Violated The Provisions Of The Versailles Treaty, Despite Popular Vote In Austria To Be Unified With Germany. -
Munich Pact Signed
The Four Powers Agreed To Give The Sudetenland To Germany, The Czechs Had To Agree. On The 1st Of October 1938, German Troops Took Over The Sudetenland, And Hitler Made A Promise To Chamberlain This Would Be His Last Demand. -
Kristallnacht
Also Called Night Of Broken Glass, It Was The Night When The Nazis Killed Or Injured Many Jews And Destroyed Many Jewish Properties. -
Hitler Invaded Czechoslovakia
When Germany Took Over The Sudetenland (Western Part Of Czechoslovakia) After Annexing Austria Because Of Claims That Many Germans Still Lived There. -
Battle Of The Atlantic
Conflict Between British And American Ships And German U-Boats. Germany Suffered Heavy Losses, Due To The Innovations Of Radar And Codebreaking Within Allied Ranks. -
Cash And Carry Policy
An Act In 1939 That Was Passed Allowing Warring Nations To Buy US Goods As Long As They Paid Cash And Carried The Goods On Their Own Ships. -
Battle Of Britain
The Battle Of Britain Was An Air Campaign Waged Between The Luftwaffe And The United Kingdom. Following The Battle Of France, Hitler Attempted To Invade Britain. Significantly, Britain Fought Off The German Attack And Was Considered The First Major Allied Victory And Was A Crucial Turning Point In The War. -
Italy, Japan , And Germany Unite To Form Axis Power
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Hitler Invaded Soviet Union
Hitler, Who Hates Slavs, Violated The Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact Of 1939. FDR Provides Assistance To The Soviet Union. -
Atlantic Charter
Document In Which Roosevelt & Churchill Make Plans For Winning The WW2, Before America Was Even Involved In The War. -
Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor
United States Military Base In Hawaii That Was Bombed By Japan, Bringing The United States Into World War II. -
Bataan Death March
American Soldiers Were Forced To March 60 Miles To Prison Camps By Their Japanese Captors. It Is Called The Death March Because So May Of The Prisoners Died on Route. -
Battle Of The Coral Sea
Naval Battle Between Japan And The US Which Halted The Japanese Movement Towards Australia, But Resulted In Heavy Losses For The US. -
Battle Of Midway
U.S. Naval Victory Over The Japanese Fleet In Which The Japanese Lost Four Of Their Best Aircraft Carriers. It Marked A Turning Point In World War II. -
Battle Of Guadalcanal
On The Swamp-And-Jungle-Covered Island Near Australia; Each Side Won Small Battles Before The Jap's Fled The Island (One Of The Island Hopping Battles). -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project Was A Secret Research And Development Project Of The U.S To Develop The Atomic Bomb. -
Battle Of Stalingrad
German Forces Were Defeated In Their Attempt To Capture An Industrial Port City On The Volga River In The Soviet Union; One Of The Most Deadly Battles Of World WarII; Crushing Defeat For Germany. -
Tehran Conference
First Major Meeting Between The Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) At Which They Planned The 1944 Assault On France And Agreed To Divide Germany Into Zones Of Occupation After The War. -
D-Day
Led By Eisenhower, Over A Million Troops (The Largest Invasion Force In History) Stormed The Beaches At Normandy And Began The Process Of Re-Taking France. The Turning Point Of World War II. -
Battle Of Leyte Gulf
1st Major Battle In The Philippines In October 1944; Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought; Jap's Used Kamikazes; Allied Victory. -
Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill And Stalin Met At Yalta. Russia Agreed To Declare War On Japan After The Surrender Of Germany And In Return FDR And Churchill Promised The USSR Concession In Manchuria And The Territories That It Had Lost In The Russo-Japanese War. -
Mussolini Captured/Killed
Mussolini Was Captured, Killed, And Hung By Feet In Public. -
V-E Day
The Name Of The Day That Ended The War. -
Potsdam Conference
Declaration Issued By The Allied Powers Demanding That Japan Surrender Unconditionally Or Face Complete Destruction.
