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Annexation of Austria (Anschluss)
The Anschluss, was the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was held on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom,France and Italy. During which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as September campaign. 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II -
Battle Of France
The Battle of France, also referred to as The Fall of France, was a series of battles that took place during May of 1940. German forces invaded areas of France pushing the British Forces and French forces back to the sea leading to the evacuation at Dunkirk. -
Auschwitz/ Dachau Death Camps
Located in southern Germany, Dachau was initially a camp for political prisoners; however, it eventually evolved into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition, disease and overwork or were executed. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. Around 6 Million people would die in these camps. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway , marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies in the Eastern Front. The Germans targeted Stalingrad because of its industrial capacities and because of its proximity to the Volga River, which would allow German forces to cut off sources of trade and military deployment. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa. While the French colonies formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies. -
The Italian Campaign
The Italian campaign, also called the Liberation of Italy, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945. The Allied did beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. On the day of Italy's surrender, Hitler launched Operation Axis, the occupation of Italy. -
D-Day
The D-Day invasion, or Normandy landings, were the landing operations of the Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord in World War II. The landings began on June 6, 1944, and they marked the beginning of the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe from Nazi control. D-Day paved for the liberation of France and low countries. The Germans would now be on the retreat until the battle of the Bulge. -
The Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a British-American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Becoming among the most controversial Allied actions of the war in an effort to force a surrender, the Dresden bombing was intended to terrorize the civilian population locally and nationwide. Estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000 to 500,000. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a critical battle as it was part of a plan by the United States to end the war with Japan. Fighting on the island officially ended on March 26, when the United States took control of the island and captured the last of the Japanese forces.It had been one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history -
Los Alamos New Mexico - Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.