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Prime Minister Chamberlin allows Hitler to keep conquering territories to expand Germany.
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Japanese Invade Manchuria and swiftly take over the country.
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Hitler purged the top military leaders in Germany and replaced them with his own officials.
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Italy wanted control over Ethiopia and decided to invade.
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Germany annexed Austria into Nazi Germany.
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The people of Nazi Germany carry out riots against the Jewish People.
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Hitler and Stalin agree to not fight each other while Hitler takes over Europe. Hitler does not plan on holding up his end of the agreement.
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The Germans marched into Poland and took over the country.
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France surrendered to Germany to avoid war while Europe was being invaded by the Nazis.
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Britain's Royal Air Force fought off Germany's Air Force over Britain and was successful.
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Hitler's plan to exterminate European Jews. Led to the Holocaust.
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Japan sends a large amount of aircraft to bomb the U.S. Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor, off the coast of Hawaii
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Germany and the Axis Powers attacked the Soviet Union in the largest confrontation of the war over the possession of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
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Turning part of the war. The U.S. gained a major victory over Japan's navy, which allowed them to press on to Japan.
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The Allies invaded Normandy to clear a path to France. Known as the start of the end of the war.
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Germany's last big offensive against the Allies on the Western Front.
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The Soviet Union stormed Auschwitz and freed over 7,000 prisoners.
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Marking the Allied victory in Europe
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The U.S. dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima then Nagasaki in order to make Japan surrender and end the war.
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Japan Surrendered to the Allies and ended the war.