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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
September 19, 1931. When the Kwantung Army of the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. -
Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
Dictatorof Nazi Germany Historian Sir Ian Kershaw suggests that if Hitler had made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party "in check." -
Invasion of Poland
September Campaign or 1939 Defensive war or the Fourth Partition of Poland -
Kristaallnachviolent
Refered to as the Night of Broken Glass anti- Jewish programs which took place on Nov 9-11, 1938 -
Dunkirk
Important battle in the second world war between the allies and germany. -
Attack on pearl harbor
surprise military strike conducted by the imperial japanese navy against the u.s. naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
Bataan Death March
Was a forcible transfer by the Imperial Mapanese Army of 60,000-80,000 Filipino & Americanprisoners of war after the three month Battle of Bataan in the Phillippines durning WW2. -
battle of midway
one of the most important naval battles of ww2. -
Yalta Conference
Took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4-11, during ww2. -
D Day
Invasion of Normandy, France. -
Battle of the Bulge
Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France & Luxemburg on the Western Front toward the end of WW2 in Europe -
V E Day
Public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of world war 1 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
V J day
U.S. dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The bombing of Hiroshima
Atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the U.S. during the final stages of ww2 in August. -
The Munich Pact
A settlement permitting Nazi Germanys annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's boarders mainly inhabited by German Speakers, for which a new territorial designation Suffentt was coined.