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Treaty of Versailles
A treaty that ends WW1 and says that Germany cannot create another powerful army. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler had burned downed the parliament building so he could seize power in Germany. He had burned the building to convince the public he needs more power to stop the crisis. -
Hitler's Olympics
Hitler's Olymipcs were for propaganda purposes. The Nazis had promoted an image of a new and strong Germany while hiding the targeting of Jews and while growing Germany's military. -
German Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland to regain the lost territory and rule their neighbors to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war because it was a complete surprise attack. -
Tripartite pact signed
The Tripartite pact created a defense alliance between the countries and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. Also, leaders of the Axis powers, Japan, Italy, and Germany, signed the Tripartite pact, creating an alliance. -
Nazi's establish gas chambers at Auschwitz
The gas chambers, disguised as shower facilities, had killed patients with pure chemically manufactured carbon monoxide gas. Gas chambers were installed at many camps and would be used multiple times a week. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in many places overseas. This then changed when the United States declared war on Japan, bringing the country into World War II. -
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
President Franklin D. made it a policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps because many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies for the Japanese government. Fear, then drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII. -
D-day
It was chosen because Hitler was expecting the invasion force to cross the English Channel at its narrowest point. By making a long sea voyage, the soldiers avoided some of the heaviest coastal defenses. Allied forces launched a combined naval, air, and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Allied airborne forces had also parachuted into drop zones across northern France. -
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was an American vs Japanese battle that lasted for five weeks. If the Americans won this battle it meant that the Army Air Forces would be able to make bombing runs without a Japanese garrison at Iwo Jima warning the mainland about the danger to come. It also meant American bombers could fly over Japan with fighter escorts. -
Hitler's Death
Hitler had launched a tirade against his commanders, calling them treacherous and incompetent, culminating in a declaration for the first time that the war was lost. Later, Hitler announced that he would stay in Berlin until the end and then shoot himself. -
The Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
By the time the United States conducted the first successful test of the atomic bomb, Germany had already been defeated. The war against Japan in the Pacific, however, continued to rage. The United States had to invent something big that would end the war against Japan quickly, so the United States became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when they dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, it had ended the war in no time. -
Axis powers surrender
On May 7, 1945, seven days after Hitler committed suicide, Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Japan fought on alone, surrendering formally on September 2, 1945.