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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany#:~:text=On%20January%2030%2C%201933%2C%20President,)%2C%20as%20chancellor%20of%20Germany. -
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber, and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan. https://inter-wars.weebly.com/japan-invades-manchuria-1931.html -
Nanking Massacre/Rape of Naking
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, at that time the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre -
Munich Conference
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/kristallnacht -
Non - Aggression Pact is signed
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact#:~:text=On%20August%2023%2C%201939%E2%80%93shortly,for%20the%20next%2010%20years. -
Germany's Invasion of Poland/Blitzkrieg
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland -
Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany.
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Fall of Paris
Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France. Eight days later, France signed an armistice with the Germans, and a puppet French state was set up with its capital at Vichy. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated#:~:text=Paris%20fell%20to%20Nazi%20Germany,with%20its%20capital%20at%20Vichy. -
The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term "Blitzkrieg", the German word for 'lightning war' https://www.britannica.com/event/Dunkirk-evacuation -
The Selective Training and Service Act
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub.L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan, and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway -
Battle of Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad -
D - Day
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and the United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ('Leader') of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitler#:~:text=Adolf%20Hitler%20was%20an%20Austrian,in%20his%20F%C3%BChrerbunker%20in%20Berlin. -
V.E. Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day -
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
V.J. Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day