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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (Manchuko)
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933, after a series of Nazi wins, he ruled until he ended up committing suicide in April of 1945 -
Nanking Massacre/Rape of Nanking
The Nanking massacre was a mass murder and raping of women by the Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing. -
Munich Conference
At the Munich conference, the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of the Czechoslovakia. -
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Kristallnacht
Also known as "The Night of Broken Glass" Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population. Nazi Germans torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, they killed close to 100 Jews. Afterward, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
Non-aggression Pact is Signed
Hitler wanted a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union so that his armies could invade Poland with little to no fight from a major power and then invade Britain and France without having to also fight the Soviet Union. -
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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. -
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Fall of Paris
The Battle of Paris was the German invasion of France, Belgium. Luxembourg, and the Netherlands -
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Dunkirk
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops from the French, when it ended about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved. -
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The Blitz
A German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom -
Selective Training and Service Act is Passed
The first peacetime conscription in United States history. -
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Operation Barbarossa
The code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis Allies -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base in Honolulu -
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Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war -
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Battle of Midway
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
D-Day
The landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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Battle of the Bulge
A major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
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Yalta Conference
A meeting of three Worl War II Allies, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, met in the resort city of Yalta. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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 -
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Battle of Okinawa
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 -
Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
He committed suicide by gunshot in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
VE 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 marking the end of World War II in Europe. -
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Dropping the Atomic Bombs
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of them were civilians, and is still the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict -
VJ 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.