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Japan invades Manchuria
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Night of the Long Knives
a purge that took place in Nazi Germany -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire -
Anschluss
refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Appeasement (Chamberlain)
an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material. Chamberlain's policy of appeasement emerged from the failure of the League of Nations and the failure of collective security -
Kristallnacht
a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
Non Aggression Pact
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 for the next 10 years. -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. -
France surrenders to Germany
the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe. -
Battle of Britain
a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Battle of Midway
a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. -
Final Solution
the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
Liberation of Auschwitz
the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered. -
V-E Day
arks the allied victory in Europe -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities 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.
