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Treaty of Versailles
Formally ended ww1. The Treaty of Versailles led to World War II because its terms punished Germany harshly. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power through Germany’s legal political processes. He required the vote of the Centre Party and Conservatives in the Reichstag to obtain the powers he desired. He was then granted the powers temporarily. -
Hitler's Olympics
"Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma" (encyclopedia.org) -
German invasion of Poland
War of Poland of, and Polish Defensive War, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II -
Nazi's establish gas chambers at Aushwitz
"SS men escorted the men, women, and children selected for death to the gas chambers—initially to the gas chamber in crematorium I and “bunkers” 1 and 2, and, from the spring of 1943, to the gas chambers in crematoria II, III, IV, and V." (auschwitz.org) -
Tripartite pact signed
Alliance of the Axis Powers- Germany, Italy, Japan -
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 American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii" (Wikipedia) -
Japanese American sent to internment camps
"Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government" (USHistory.org) -
Battle of Midway
"The Imperial Japanese Navy would not be capable of overcoming the loss of four carriers and over 100 trained pilots, and with the loss at Midway, the Japanese offensive in the Pacific was overturned and the United States began offensive action in the Pacific." (nationalww2.org) -
battle of stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Axis of powers surrender (Italy)
Italy surrenders after a shortage of fuel. -
Iwo Jima
The battle of the island Iwo Jima, eventual captured by the US. -
Axis powers surrender (Germany)
The ending of the war for Germany -
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
Japan had refused to surrender, therefore america dropped 2 Atomic Bombs in order for Japan to surrender. -
Axis powers surrender (Japan)
After bombs were dropped on Japan by the US the surrendered