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Treaty Of Versailles ends WW1 and states that Germany must pay back large sums of money to nations who spent money on WW1, and states that Germany cannot rebuild its army. -
After the Enabling Act of 1933 granted Hitler excess power after the burning of the Reichstag and blamed the USSR -
Hitler and Nazi Germany hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics in order to spread propaganda and to show off the new, united Nazi Germany. -
Nazi Germany creates the Gas Chambers used to kill off large numbers of Jewish people. The gas chambers are some of the most iconic torture/death devices of the Jewish concentration camps. -
Germany invades Poland in a surprise invasion, beginning World War 2. -
A pact formed in Berlin that states that the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) would ally themselves with each other. -
Japan launches a surprise attack on the American military base Pearl Harbor in an attempt to weaken the USA and cripple its ability to combat Japan. -
The bombing of Pearl Harbor resulted in a country-wide anti Japanese sentiment, and so the Japanese Americans were sent to camps in the desert where they were held in poor conditions. -
Italy surrenders on September 8, 1943, via the volte-face, and joins the fight on the side of the Allies later that year (Oct. 13, 1943) -
The allied forces combine their forces and create the largest seaborne invasion in world history. -
A major German front in WW2 tried to take the Ardennes area of France. The push exhausted most of Germanies resources and failed to recapture France from the Allies. -
The USA assaults the small island of Iwo Jima and is met with stiff Japanese resistance. Iwo Jima was one of the most brutal battles in the Eastern Theater. -
The Axis Powers surrender to the Allies on separate dates, Due to various reasons. -
The USA drops two Atom Bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to force Japan to surrender.