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Japanese invade Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
In the year 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
On October 3, 1935 Italy under the command of Benito Mussolini invaded and took control of Ethiopia. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a meeting held at Munich on September 29, 1938 by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. It granted Germany control of the Sudeten land in Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a movement against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on November 9, 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians -
Non-Aggression pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which both Germany and The Soviet Union promised not to attack the other. The German-Soviet Pact also allowed Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention. -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland starting world war 2. Without a formal declaration of war, the Soviets invaded Poland from the east. Germany had already invaded Poland from the west 16 days earlier. -
Invasion of France
By May, 1940, Hitler had taken Denmark and Norway, and now he wanted France. An anti-Nazi German officer had warned the Netherlands regarding the attack, but they didn't pass along the information to their allies. -
Battle of Britain
The battle began on July 10, 1940 and lasted till October 31, 1940. During this period, large scale night attacks known as "the Biltz" occurred. This is described as the first military campaign fought entirely by the air force. -
Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the U.S.A.. The United States was a neutral country at this time, when their naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii was bombed. This attack led to the United States formal entry into WW2. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This front was formed simply by renaming the now dissolved Southwest front. On January 1, 1943, the Stalingrad front was renamed the Southern front. -
Normandy invasion
On D-day, 6/6/44, General Dwight D. Eisenhower led an allied force called the greatest amphibious invasion of all time, against the Germans, on the coast of Normandy, France. This invasion was also known as Operation Overlord and was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
VE Day
On this date, there was a formal acceptance by the allies of WW2 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The formal surrender document was signed May 7, 1945 and Winston Churchill was informed of this event at 7 pm that night. -
Atomic bombings of Japan
The US detonated two nuclear weapons over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The first bombing was on August 6, 1945 and the second was August 9, 1945. The bombings killed 129,000 - 226,000 most of whom were civilians. This remains the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed combat. -
VJ Day- Victory over Japan day
VJ Day was officially August 15, 1945 in Japan. Vj Day in the United States was officially August 14, 1945. On September 2, 1945, the surrender document was officially signed and the war was over.
