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Appeasement
Chamberlain wanted to appease Hitler by giving him land to stop his conquest on Europe. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany -
Italy invades Ethiopia
was a colonial war fought from 3 October 1935 until 5 May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire. -
Anschluss
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938 -
Non-Aggression Pact
Non-Aggression Pact was a pact between Germany and Soviet Union to be non aggressive towards each other and. They never intend to keep this pact just looked to buy time. -
Germany invades Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. -
France surrenders to Germany
French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe. -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
Final Solution
Final Solution was an event that would later be called Holocaust the genocide of Jews during World War II -
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, Hawaii -
Battle of Midway
was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy
(It was the largest seaborne invasion in history.) -
Battle of the Bulge
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp on January 27, 1945. The prisoners greeted them as authentic liberators. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
