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Great Depression Begins in USA
By 1930, 4 million Americans looking for work could not find it; that number had risen to 6 million in 1931. Bread lines, soup kitchens and rising numbers of homeless people became more and more common in America’s towns and cities. Farmers who were struggling couldn't afford to harvest their crops and were forced to leave them rotting. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Anxious to regain power, von Papen struck a deal to make Hitler Chancellor, with himself as Vice-Chancellor. In the hope of creating a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to the plan. So on 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. -
Night of Broken Glass
It was the violence against Jews that lasts into the morning hours of November 10th. Several dozen Jews lose their lives and tens of thousands are arrested and sent to concentration camps which was known of the "Night of Broken Glass." -
Nazi Soviet Pact
The pact guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. -
Germany Invades Poland
Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland on this year of 1939. He used the “blitzkrieg” strategy which was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War I -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. That same day, America entered into World War II. -
D-Day
It is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and turned the tides of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
It was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
VE Day
The day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. It was basically to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Blitzkrieg
A german term for "Lightning war." It was a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Bombs Dropped in Hiroshima
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
Bomb Dropped in Nagasaki 長崎市
A second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. -
Establishment of the United Nations
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
