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Beginning of the Holocaust
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Austria- peacefully annexed
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Nonaggression Pact that Germany makes with Russia
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Germany invades Poland
Official start of the war -
Blitzkreig- Hitler called a lightening war against Poland
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Period: to
World War 2
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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France surrendered to Germany after 6 weeks of fighting
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National Assembly voted Marshal Philippe Petain as President of the Council of the regime
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Germany invades Russia
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; U.S. joins the war
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D-Day Invasion, Allied invasion of France
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Yalta Conference
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Germans surrender and leave the war
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Potsdam Conference
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Japanese surrender from WW2