WWII

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  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
    The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident

  • Hitler made Chancellor of Germany

    This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”, but it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent

  • The Anschluss

    The Anschluss
    Annexation of the Austria into Nazi Germany

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Extermination against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians

  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    Invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent

  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk
    Important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. Was defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack brought the US into WWII

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    Transfer of Filipinos and American Prisoners led by the Imperial Japanese Army

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    American planes defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    We launched powerful counteroffensive against allies and caught them by surprise.

  • Yalta Confrence

    Meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by FDR, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization

  • V E Day

    V E Day
    Day to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces

  • The Bombing of Hiroshima

    The Bombing of Hiroshima
    The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in human history

  • V J Day

    V J Day
    Day where Japan surrendered which ended WWII