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The Beginning
Hitler beats his competition and becomes the chancellor of Germany. Hitler comes into power -
Hitler's plan for treaty
Hitler pledges to undo the Treaty of Versailles -
The Axis
Germany, Italy, Japan form pact known as the Axis powers -
Italy Invades
Ethiopia is invaded by Italy -
Germany takes Austria
Germany goes through with the annexation of Austria -
Appeasement
Germany Italy Great Britain and France sign the Munich Agreement -
Appeasement is broken
Germany breaks Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of the Czech lands -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a Pact dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence -
Poland is invaded
Germany decides to invade Poland -
War is declared
Honoring their support of Poland Great Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Poland is invaded again
Poland is invaded again but this time by an allied country the Soviet Union -
Phony war start
Known as the phony war because during the time it was going on almost no fighting happened -
Phony war end
The war in which almost no fighting took place ended -
Germany invades
Norway and Denmark are both invaded by Germany -
France falls
Germany takes control over Paris after France falls -
Operation Sea Lion
Code name for the plan for an invasion by Germany on the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain -
Operation Sea Lion End
The operation is a failure for the Germans and a victory for Great Britain -
Kristallnacht
The night of broken glass the day Germans destroyed Jewish owned businesses -
Auschwitz
A concentration camp made by the Germans to speed the process of the genocide on the Jewish -
Battle of Britain Ends
The Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940 -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany breaks pact with the Soviet Union and invades -
North African Campaign
Campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia -
Pearl Harbor
The U.S. is attacked by surprise by the Japanese and pulled into the war -
Battle of Midway Ends
The turning point in the war -
Battle of Stalingrad begins
The battle between Germany and the Soviet Union for the Soviet's city of Stalingrad that lasted over a year -
Battle of Stalingrad ends
The long battle of Stalingrad finally ends after more than a year when the Germans finally retreat -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord -
Germany surrenders
The beginning of the end -
Hiroshima
The day the first atomic bomb dropped -
Nagasaki
The day the second atomic bomb dropped leaving Japan no other choice -
The End
Japan is left with no other choice but to surrender they were unable to fight anymore