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Japan invades Manchuria
the Japanese had conquered Manchuria. -
Appeasement (Chamberlain)
the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict -
night of the long knives
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
Anschluss
refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Non Aggression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other -
Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Battle of Britain
was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force -
France surrenders to Germany
the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, -
battle of Midway
was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of the Bulge
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. -
Final Solution
the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945. -
V-E Day
marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, -
V-J Day
Americans declared August 14 “Victory over Japan Day,” or “V-J Day.
