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Mao Zedong Heads Long March
The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Koumintang. During the Long March, Mao Zedong stated that he was swimming in the peasants sea. -
Germany invades Poland; France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
After the non aggression act with Stlalin, the two rulers also made a plan. Their plan was to invade Poland. Germany sent in fast moving artillery while a massive amount of men came behind them. The war was called the lighting war because Hitler sent in fast moving trucks and a overwhelmed Poland with their massive army. Then France and Britain declared war on Germany because they needed protect Poland's independence. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Germany surrenders
When America and Britain were done liberating Northern Africa and Italy, they attacked Germany from the Western Front.Hitler now knew he was in trouble and decided to take his army and artillery and put it all in the Western Front. This did not work and Germany had no choice but to surrender -
Allies use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. warned Japan, but when Japan didn't answer, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Many died after the bomb because of the radiation as well. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
United Nations formed
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, promising to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
